PREVIOUS UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT AND OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
(Institution(s), Rank(s) Held, Dates)
2006 Professor - Comparative Literature, Unversity of Western Ontario
1995-2005 Associate Professor - Comparative Literature, University of Western Ontario
1994-1995 Associate Professor - French, Brock University
1989-1994 Assistant Professor - Comparative Literature, Harvard University
1987-1989 Assistant Professor - French, Boston University
1986-1987 Teaching Assistant,Literary Studies Programme,Victoria University, UofT.
1985-1986 Teaching Assistant, Latin, Medieval Studies Centre, University of Toronto
1983-1984 Teaching Assistant, French Department, University of Toronto
GENERAL AREA(S) OF ACADEMIC SPECIALIZATION:
Medieval studies, autobiography, theories of textuality, film studies, metaphor, literary theory, 16th century
COURSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO AND ELSEWHERE
(Subject, Description and Level):
1995-present: University of Western Ontario
Graduate Courses:
•Medieval and Renaissance French Literature (reading course, one student)
•Neo-Latin Culture in Renaissance France (reading course, one student)
•Medieval Latin and Old French (reading course, 1 student)
•Metamorphoses of the Alphabetic Letter (taught three times, once crosslisted •Comparative Literature/Centre for Theory and Criticism)
•Concepts of the Self from Antiquity to the Renaissance
•Category, Analogy, Example, Metaphor: The Problems of Resemblance (taught twice, once crosslisted Comparative Literature/Centre for Theory and Criticism)
•Author, Authority and Autobiography (taught 3 times)
•Reading Course, French dept:: « le 'Cycle du Graal' et les romans en prose au XIIIe siècle» (1 student)
•Reading Course,: «Orígenes del teatro medieval español» (2 students)
•Reading Course, Comparative Literature: «Confession, Testimonial, Autobiography» (2 students)
Undergraduate Courses:
•Histoire de la langue française
•The Hispanic Experience
•Introduction à la langue et à la literature de la Renaissance (taught 4 times)
•Initiation à la littérature du Moyen Âge (taught 3 times)
•Écrivains femmes à la Renaissance
•French Renaissance Prose (in French))
•Women Writers to 1700: Saints, Sinners, Lovers, Witches, Feminists
•Western Culture Across the Ages (taught ten times)
•Baroque Culture
•Medieval Literature and Modern Cinema
•Sagas of the Vikings (taught twice)
1994-1995: Brock University
Undergraduate courses:
•Language and Literature of the French Middle Ages (in French)
•16th-Century French Literature (in French)
•Introduction to Literary Studies in French (in French)
•1st-year French (language course)
1989-94: Harvard University
Graduate Courses:
•L'Autobiographie au Moyen Age (French Dept.) Text(uality) and Author(ship)/(ity) in the Middle Ages (Comparative Literature Dept)
•Love and Desire in Medieval Literature (Comparative Literature Dept.)
•14th-Century Literature (Comparative Literature Dept.)
•Myths of the Poetic Process in Medieval Literature (Comparative Literature Dept.)
Undergraduate Courses
•England and America (2nd year seminar, « History and Literature » programme)
•Middle Ages (2nd year seminar, « History and Literature » programme)
•Renaissance (2nd year seminar, « History and Literature » programme)
•Tutor and director of 4th-year theses (« History and Literature » programme)
1987-1989: Boston University
•Introduction to French Literature (in French)
•Lyrisme médiévale et amour courtois (in French)
•Histoire de la langue française (in French)
•Major Authors
•French for Reading Knowledge
1982-1987: University of Toronto
•FR 161 (1st-year French)
•Literary Studies (1st year course, Teaching Assistant)
•Latin (Centre for Medieval Studies, Teaching Assistant)
