Ph.D. (Romance Philology), University of California, Berkeley.

As a linguist and medievalist, trained in comparative Romance philology (both medieval language and literature), I have responsibility for graduate courses in history of the French language and French stylistics. I also teach Old French literature (including readings in Old Provencal troubadour poetry) and translation, as well as third-year courses in French phonetics, grammar review, composition, and conversation, and a fourth-year advanced French grammar course.

Other teaching duties include a seminar on research methods (LLEA 630); and a course in medieval Welsh language and literature: LLEA 682 (Masterpieces of Medieval Welsh Literature). Since 1991, the course has been offered nine times, most recently in Fall 2005.

I have offered a wide variety of topics as directed readings: modern and medieval French epic, literature, and language; additional readings in Medieval Welsh literature; introductory Rumanian; dialectology of Corsican; and comparative Romance dialectology and grammar.

Since Fall 1998, I have served as Managing Editor of the journal TENSO, published by Société Guilhem IX, after serving 4 years as Secretary-Treasurer of the Société.

 

AWARDS

Excellence in Teaching Award (Hawaii Association of Language Teachers & Honolulu Advertiser) 2006.

Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching, Univ. of Hawai`i at Manoa 2001.

Univ. of Hawai`i at Manoa Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research 1996.

Camargo Foundation fellowship Fall 1997.

 

TEACHING

Historical grammar of French, stylistics, translation, medieval French and Occitan literature, phonetics. Masterpieces of Medieval Welsh Literature. Seminar on research methods. Italian.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

(in press) “La culture d’oc, une identité reconnue dans le monde”. To be published in conference proceedings, Colloque de Sabres “Un pays dans sa langue”, 2004-10-10.

(in press) “L’occitan médiéval: un bilan, en lisant une bibliographie”. In Ab nou cor et ab nou talen - Les nouvelles tendances de la recherche médiévale occitane, ed. Anna Ferrari. Actes du Colloque AIEO (Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes), L'Aquila 5-7 juillet 2001). Modena: Mucchi, 2005. (Subsidia al Corpus des Troubadours; Studi, Testi e Manuali.)

“Lady Body-Dear and the Armed Pig of Cremona: Old Provençal Compounds in the COM”. In Etudes de langue et de littérature médiévales offertes à Peter T. Ricketts à l'occasion de son 70ème anniversaire, ed. Dominique Billy & Ann Buckley. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005 (735 pp), pp. 615-629

“La dérivation dans la Concordance de l’occitan médiéval: morphologie et ambiguïté chez les troubadours”. Lexique 17 (2005): 21-27. Invited talk, presented at the “Table ronde sur la morphologie dérivationnelle dans l’ancienne langue française et occitane” (Centre de Linguistique et Philologie romane de Strasbourg) 24 May 2002.

“Onomastique des troubadours : prolégomènes à une nouvelle approche”. In Onomastique et patrimoine, éd. Gérard Taverdet. Actes du XIIe Colloque biennal de la Société française d’onomastique (Le Teich, 9-11 septembre 2003). Dijon: Université de Bourgogne & Association Bourguignonne d’Etudes Linguistiques et Littéraires, 2004 (372 pp.), pp. 113-122.

Review of Lucia Lazzerini, Letteratura medievale in lingua d’oc, Modena, Mucchi, 2001, in TENSO 19 (2004): 22-27.

“A la recherche des troubadours perdus: le Languedoc”. In Scène, évolution, sort de la langue et de la littérature d'oc, ed. Saverio Guida. Actes du VIIe Congrès International de l’AIEO, Reggio di Calabria & Messina, 7-13 July 2002. 2 vol. Roma: Viella, 2003 (1046 pp.), pp. 471-478.

"La Nomination des anonymes médiévaux". In Actas del XXIII Congreso nternacional de Lingüística y Filología Románica. (Salamanca, 26 septembre-1^er octobre 2001) Vol. 4 Edición y Crítica Textual, pp. 123-127. Tübingen:  Niemeyer. 

"Littérature perdue des troubadours". In Le Rayonnement de la civilisation occitane à l'aube d'un nouveau millénaire. Actes du 6e Congrès international de l'AIEO (Vienna, 12-17 September 1999), ed. Georg Kremnitz et al. Vienna: Praesens, 2001, pp. 213-221. 

Bibliographie linguistique (1983-1997) de l'ancien occitan. Montpellier/Birmingham: Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, 1999. iii + 296 pp. ISBN 0-951200-45-3.

OCCITAN BIBLIOGRAPHY

(on-line) Arnaut (www.arnaut.it): Medieval Occitan linguistic bibliography for 1998-2001.

(1999) Bibliographie linguistique (1983-1997) de l'ancien occitan. Montpellier/Birmingham: Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, 1999. iii + 296 pp. ISBN 0-951200-45-3.

(1986) Bibliographie linguistique (1960-1982) de l'ancien occitan. Romanistik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 19. Hamburg: Buske, 1986. ix + 185 pp. ISBN 3-87118-767-4.

(annually, since 1998): "Occitan Studies: Language". In Year's Work in Modern Language Studies (Oxford).

(annually, since 1989) "Occitan Linguistic Bibliography". In TENSO (Louisville, Kentucky).