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Background
Columbia University
(New York, USA), Ph.D. in French and Romance Philology, May 1978.
University of Haifa
(Israel), B. A. "With Distinction" in French and English, February 1971.
University of Bucharest
(Romania), State Diploma "De Merit" in Romanian Language and Literature,
July 1966.
Professional Experience
Academic:
University of New
Orleans, 1984 to present; Rank of Professor of French since August 1991.
Dartmouth College,
Assistant Professor, 1978-1984 (Romance Languages)
Columbia University,
Preceptor and Associate of French, 1972-1975.
Research:
Institute of Literary
History of the Romanian Academy, "George Calinescu", Bucharest, 1966-1967.
Areas of Expertise
Medieval French
and Occitan Literature
Theory of Literature
Contemporary French civilization
Romanian Language and Literature
Main Publications
Books and Book
Chapters
- Co-editor, with Elaine S. Brooks, and S. George Wolf of Romance Studies Today: In Honor of Beatriz Varela, Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, Newark, Delaware, 2004, 330 pp.
- "Love's Law: From Erotic Casuist to Moral Arbiter in the Love Lyrics of the Troubadours," in Romance Studies Today: In Honor of Beatriz Varela, edited by Elaine S. Brooks, Eliza Miruna Ghil and S. George Wolf, Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, Newark, Delaware, 2004, pp. 151-160.
- L'Age de Parage: Essai sur le poétique et le politique en Occitanie au XIIIe siècle, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1989, 407 pp.
- Chapter 20, "Imagery
and Vocabulary," in F.R.P. Akehurst et al., eds., A Handbook of the
Troubadours, Berkeley/Los Angeles, University of California Press,
1995, p. 421-446.
Refereed/invited
journal articles
"Literatura la Holywood: Troia," in Cultura, Vol. I, no. 21, 8/4-10/04, p. 19-20 (published by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Bucharest , Romania), in Romanian.
- "The Troubadours'
Legacy in the Year 2000" in Cercetarea Literara Azi: Studii dedicate
profesorului Paul Cornea, Iasi (Romania): Polirom, 2000, 262-269.
- "Crozada:
Avatares of a Religious Term in Thirteenth-Century Occitan Poetry," Tenso, Vol. 10 (1995), no. 2 p. 99-109.
- "The Triumph
of the Sirventes in Thirteenth-Century Troubadour Poetry," Medieval
Perspectives, IX (1994), p. 48-62.
- "A Romanian Singer
of Tales: Vasile Tetin," Oral Tradition, 3 (1986), p. 607-635.
- "The Seasonal
Topos in the Old Provençal Canzo: A Reassessment," in Studia
Occitanica in Memoriam Paul Remy, Guy Mermier et als., eds., Kalamazoo:
Publications of the Institute of Medieval Studies, 1986, I, p. 87-99.
- "Ideological
Models and Poetic Modes in The Song of the Albigensian Crusade," Romanic Review, 2 (1984), p. 131-146.
- "The Romance
of Flamenca: A Study of the Implied Public," in Courtly Romance,
Guy Mermier ed., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Series of Monographs,
1984, p. 109-132.
- "Neagoe Basarab's Teachings to His Son Theodosie: An Unorthodox Reading," Southeastern
Europe, 10-Part I (1983), p. 58-71.
- "Ideological
Parody in Eugene Ionesco's Rhinocéros and in A Lost Letter by I. L. Caragiale, Yearbook of Romanian Studies, VII (1982),
p. 44-58.
- "Here and Now in the Old Provençal, "Romance Philology,
1 (1981), p. 203-212.
- "Topic and Tropeic:
Two Types of Syntagmatic Development in the Old Provençal Canzo," L'Esprit Créateur, 4 (1979), p. 54-69.
Recent Lectures
at Conferences and Invited Lectures in Universities
- ""Coven," "Costuma" and "Dreit" in the Code of Courtly Love," the 44-th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 5/7/09.
- "Poets and Rulers in the Anonymous "Song of the Albigensian Crusdae" (1228)," the 43-rd International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 5/8/08.
- "Women as Patrons
of the Arts in Medieval France", Loyola University, New Orleans, 6/18/01.
- "Eleanor of Aquitaine
Protector of the Troubadours", Loyola University, New Orleans, 4/2/01.
- "Love's Law:
From Erotic Casuist to Moral Arbiter in the Love Lyrics of the Troubadours."
The XIXth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures,
University of Cincinnati, 5/6/99.
- "The Status of
Comparative Literature in American Universities Today," University of
Bucharest (Romania), 5/28/97.
- "The Political
Overtones of Courtliness in Thirteenth-Century Troubadour Poetry," SCMLA
Meeting 1994, 11/10/94, New Orleans.
- "Romancing the
Middle Ages: Love and History in Some Popular Narratives of the 1990's,"
The Seventh Annual Conference on Medievalism (session on "American Medievalism"),
University of Tampa, Florida, 10/1/92.
- "Contrafactura and Political Polemics in the Thirteenth-Century Troubadour Lyric: The
Case of Na Gormonda de Montpellier," SCMLA Annual Convention, San Antonio,
10/26/92.
- "Les Mediévistes
sur la liste des "best-sellers" en France aujourd'hui," University of
Bucharest (Romania), 6/5/92.
- "The Revenge
of the Referent: On Some Recent Polemics in American Literary Theory,"
University of Bucharest (Romania), 6/2/92.
- "Toulouse et
ses poètes au Moyen Age," Université de Toulouse "Le Mirail"
- Dartmouth College, 11/15/91.
- "The American
System of Higher Learning from a European Prospective: An Inside View,"
University of Bucharest (Romania), 2/27/90.
Officer in
Professional Organizations
- Member, Executive
Committee, Study Group on Catalan and Provençal of the MLA, 1991-1995.
- Member, Executive
Committee, Study Group on Romanian of the MLA, 1986-1990.
Referee for
Scholarly Publications and Presses
Romance Philology
MLA Publications
University of Florida Press.
Membership
in Professional Societies
Modern Language
Association of America (MLA), Southcentral MLA (SCMLA), Rencesvals Society
for the Medieval Romance Epic, Internation Courtly Literature Society
(ICLS), Medieval Academy of America, America Association of Teachers of
French (AATF), Romanian Studies Association of America (RSAA).
Academic Administrative
Positions
Chair of Foreign
Languages, University of New Orleans, 8/97 - present.
Graduate Coordinator for French, same department, UNO, 8/94 - 8/97.
Graduate Coordinator for Romance Languages, 1992 - 1993.
Chair of Foreign Languages, UNO 8/88 - 12/90.
Personal Statement
I attempt to combine
in my teaching and research the expertise in the forms of literature and
culture of the distant past (e.g., the medieval France and Occitania),
with the newest methods of inquiry available to a twenty-first century
scholar. Seeing the most recent cultural phenomena with the eyes of the
past, and the most distant ones with the eyes of today represents for
me an exciting, ongoing challenge.
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