About me
Education
2007 Ph.D. Defense in French at New York University (Honors)
2006 Ph.D. Dissertation Prospectus Examination
2005 Ph.D. Qualifying Examination (Honors)
2004-2005 Ecole Normale Superieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, France (NYU exchange graduate student)
2002 M.A. in French Language and Literature
2001-2002 Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, France
DEA in French Literature (ENS-LSH and Université Lumière Lyon 2)
2000-2001 Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, France
M.A. in French Literature (ENS-LSH and Université Lumière Lyon 2)
1999-2000 Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1998-1999 Bayerische Julius-Maximilians Universität, Würzburg, Germany
1997-1998 Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Admitted 1st in French major Major in French, minor in English
1993-1997 Colegiul National Liviu Rebreanu, Bistrita, Romania Admitted 1st in Class of Foreign Languages
Publications
Book:
Herméneutiques. Iasi (Romania): Junimea Publishing House, 2000. ISBN 973-37-0534-9, foreword by Irina Mavrodin
L’Emergence de l’auteur dans les chroniques médiévales (Manuscript under review)
Articles:
“L’esthétique des chroniqueurs de la quatrième croisade et l’épistémè gothico-scolastique”. The Medieval Chronicle. Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 5 (2007): 61-76. ISBN 978-90-420-2354-3
“The Aesthetics of the Chroniclers of the Fourth Crusade and the Gothic–Scholastic Episteme.” Reading Medieval Studies. Reading: University of Reading (UK). 31 (2005): 3-26. ISBN 0-7049-1219-8
“Le métathéâtre en tant que métaphore de l’aliénation. Les sources et les mécanismes de l’angoisse.” Limbaje si Comunicare/Languages and Communication. Suceava (Romania): Suceava University Press. 4 (1999): 429-450. ISBN 973-9408-78-8
Book Review:
Book review for Froissart, Jean. Chroniques. Livre III: le manuscrit Saint-Vincent de Besançon. Eds. Ainsworth, P.F., and G. Croenen. Geneva: Droz, 2007. The Medieval Review, 2009.
Translation/Media Project:
“Film Grammar” (DVD) by Nancy Membrez, 2008 (translated into French by Cristian Bratu and Kaitlin Fogelsong, 2009).
Forthcoming:
“Denis Sauvage: The Editing of Medieval Chronicles in 16th-Century France”. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History. New York: AMS Press, 2010.
“Mirrors for princes.” Handbook of Medieval Studies: Concepts, Methods, Historical Developments, and Current Trends in Medieval Studies. Ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2009/2010.
Articles on “Manuscript Patrons and Provenance,” the “Annales Rotomagenses” and the “Chronique de Saint-Maixent” (co-authored with Régis Rech), the “Chronicle of Huru,” the “Chronique Saintongeaise,” “François Bonivard,” “Guido de Bazochis,” “Jean de Bethencourt,” “Jean Creton,” “Jean Dardel,” “Jean Maupoint,” “Jean de Roye,” the “Miroir historial abregié de France.” Encyclopaedia of the Medieval Chronicle. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2009/2010.
Conference Presentations, Talks, and Lectures
- July 2010 – International Medieval Congress, Leeds (UK): “The Unwilling Traveler: Guillaume de Villeneuve and His Viatique”
- October 2009 – 66th Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association, Baton Rouge: “Les Idiots utiles: Intellectuals and Collaborationism in 20th-Century France”
- October 2009 – Texas Medieval Association Conference, Austin: “Chroniclers and Authors: The Status of French Medieval Historians”
- October 2009 – Jersey City, NJ, Romance Studies 2009 Colloquium on Storytelling: “Medieval Chronicles as Storytelling”
- May 2009 – Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies: panel on “Authorship in Medieval Chronicles”
- March 2009 – American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Harvard University: “From History to MyStory: Self-Expression in Early Modern French Chronicles”
- March 2009 – Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference, Albuquerque: “Denis Sauvage: Editing Medieval Historiography in Sixteenth-Century France”
- December 2008 – MLA Convention, San Francisco: “Hundred Years War Literature: Making and Breaking Boundaries” (panel hosted by Deborah McGrady, UVA): “Crossing Boundaries in the Third Book of Froissart’s Chronicles“
- December 2008 – Barnard College, Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference. The Shape of Time in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, “Genealogical Time and Its Gaps in Froissart’s Chroniques“
- September 2008 – University of Texas at San Antonio, European Film Conference, “Femmes dans le jardin: Elements pour une nouvelle interpretation d’Inch’Allah dimanche“
- April 2008 – University of North Texas, Women in French Conference: “Authorship, Authority, and Gender in the Middle Ages” – presider of sessions VII (Women Authors in the Middle Ages I) and XV (Female Authority in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period II)
- March 2008 – Fordham University, Remembering the Crusades. Myth, Image, and Identity: “Remembering the Crusades, Remembering the Self”
- September 2006 – New York University, Work in Progress Seminar, “Emergence de l’auteur et écriture de soi dans l’historiographie médiévale”
- 2006 – International Medieval Congress, Leeds (UK): “L’économie des émotions chez Philippe de Commynes”
- 2006 – Cornell University, Entralogos. Romance Studies Graduate Conference: Turns, Returns, Detours: (Hi)story and (Re)presentation: “The Missing Link in the Genealogical Representation of Medieval History”
- 2005 – Yale University, Florilegium. Graduate Student Medieval Studies Conference: “The Rise of the Medieval Chronicler”
- 2005 – Columbia University, Graduate Student Conference “How Sweet Are Your Words to My Taste”. Eating Food, Imbibing Drink and Devouring Texts in the Middle Ages: “Images of Hunger and Abundance in the Writings of Villon and Rabelais”
- 2005 – University of Reading (UK), 4th International Medieval Chronicles Conference: “Les Chroniques de la 4e croisade et l’épistémè gothico-scolastique”
- 2004 – University of Texas at Austin, French and Italian Graduate Students’ Conference: “Cohérence discursive et incohérence politique chez Geoffroy de Villehardouin”
- 2002 – Université de Genève (Switzerland), Conference on “Le littéraire en marge du littéraire” : “L’espace polytropique dans les romans antiques du XIIe siècle”
- 1998 – Universitatea Babes-Bolyai (Romania), Conference of French and Francophone Literatures: “Transparence et opacité dans Les Confessions de Rousseau”
Grants and Awards
2007-2008 Summer Sabbatical Project, Baylor University
2006-2007 Dulau Fellowship (NYU)
2004-2005 NYU Exchange Student at ENS Lyon
2002 MacCracken Fellowship at NYU
2000-2002 Joint grant ENSAF (ENS/Ambassade de France en Roumanie): Scholarship at the ENS Lyon, France
1998-1999 ERASMUS scholarship from the European Union: Study scholarship at Würzburg University, Germany
Summer 1998 Golden medal at the international French spelling contest “Allons en France/Dicos d’or”, Sorbonne, Paris
Spring 1997 Special award at the “Concursul Latinitatii” (National Contest of Latin and Neolatin Languages), Târgu-Mures, Romania
1996 Special award in French at the “Olimpiada Nationala de Limbi Romanice” (National Contest of Romance Languages), Baia Mare, Romania
Languages
Romanian, French and English: native fluency
German: very good writing, reading and speaking skills
Latin, Italian, Spanish: good reading, writing and speaking skills
Old French (langue d’oil and langue d’oc): very good reading skills
Portuguese: good reading skills
Arabic, Ancient Greek and Dutch: beginner level
Fields of Special Interest
Medieval and Early Modern narrative literature
Translation, translatio and patterns of transmission in the Middle Ages
Pre-modern historiography and travel literature
Pre-modern representations of authorship
Pre-modern and modern political thought
Self-expression in literature (autobiographies, autofictions, memoirs, diaries)
French Theory and the “Death of the Author”
Ideologies and utopias