Personal Full Name: Raymond (Joseph) CORMIER Social Security No.: 042-30-5969 Permanent Residence: Longwood House--1403 Johnston Drive Farmville, VA 23901--Tel. 434/392-7374 (or 395-2008) Office: Longwood University- Dept. English, Philosophy & Modern Languages (201 High St.-Farmville, VA 23909) Tel. 434/395-2857 FAX 434/395-2145 E-MAIL: cormierrj@longwood.edu Date of Birth: 23.xi.38 Place of Birth: Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA Married: 9.vi.60; Dr. Patricia Picard Cormier (President, Longwood University) Children: Jean-Louis, b. 1.ii.65 Education Fairfield College Preparatory School, Connecticut, 1952-1956 Middlebury College French Summer School, 1960; Southeastern Inst. for Medieval and Ren. St., U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1969 (Junior Fellow; Director: Giles Constable) University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Dept. of Celtic, Fall Term, 1972 Dublin Inst. for Adv. Studies, School of Celtic Studies, April-August, 1977 (Reader, Celtic Library; Advisor: Cecile O'Rahilly) Participant, Instructional Wrkshp., For. Lang. Proficiency Assessmt., Educ. Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, Sept. 1982 (1.6 CEU) Participant, Seminar, Aims and Methods of Codicological Research, Rare Book School/School of Library Science, Columbia U., New York City, 7/87 (Director: A. Derolez, U. Gent) Participant/Student, Japanese language course, All-Alumni Language Program, Dartmouth College, July 1988 (100 hours of instruction) Secondary Teaching Certification, French/FL Ed., Pennsylvania, 8/92; North Carolina French Teacher Certification, 3/94. Participant, Instructional Workshop, Asymetrix Toolbook, Institute for Academic Technology, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 5/95; Workshop II, 10/95. Degrees A.B., 1960, University of Bridgeport (French Lit.) A.M., 1962, Stanford University (Thesis on Racine) Ph.D., 1967, Harvard University (Romance Languages and Celtic Studies); Teaching Experience (in brief) Stanford University, Teaching Assistant in French, 1960-62 Harvard University, Teaching Fellow/Instructor in French, 1963-67 Tufts University, Instructor of French, 1965-67 University of Virginia, Asst. Professor of French, 1967-72 Temple University, Assoc. Prof. French, 1972-84; Chair, French & Italian, 1973-75; promoted to Full Professor, 1979 Wilson College, Professor of French, Humanities, and English, 1984-94. Adjunct Professor of English, 1994-95 concurrent--Dartmouth College, All-Alumni/Accelerated Language Program, Master Teacher of French, Summers, 1983-94, 2002; Visiting Professor of French, Dept. French & Italian, Summer 2001; Gettysburg College, Adjunct Professor of French, 1986-87; Dickinson College, Visiting Professor of French, 1990-91 University of North Carolina-Charlotte, English Language Training Center, Charlotte, NC, ESL instructor, 8/93-10/93 Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System-S. Chlt. Middle School, French Teacher, 11/93-7/94 Central Piedmont Comm. College, French instructor, 8/94-8/96 (Technology Associate, 8/95-8/96) Longwood College (as of 2002, University), Visiting Professor of French 9/96 to present; concurrent--Southside Virginia Community College, Adjunct in English, 9/96; Master Teacher, Longwood ESL Program, Summer 1997; faculty member, Yorktown University (World Literature, online course, 2001 to present) Professional Experience (a selection; details available on request) Three central areas of professional activity: (1) >Foreign-language teaching and teacher-group organization. E.g., implemented Dartmouth Intensive Language Model, through Exxon IMPACT grant program, at Temple University's suburban Ambler Campus, 1979-1983 (involved, i.a., apprentice teacher training workshop, supervision, recruitment, and publicity efforts; community outreach, and producing student dramatic skits each semester). >1985-87 Title VI grant from U.S. Department of Education to revitalize foreign languages and international studies curriculum at Wilson College--through language immersion fused with business language courses and foreign internships. >Master Teacher, English Language Institute, Wilson College, summer 1990; also Program Director, summer 1991 to summer 1994. >Senior Editor, The Ram's Horn, a publ. of the Rassias Foundation, 1980 to present. >Reader, AP French Essay Exams, College Board, 6/96-6/2000; 6/2002, 6/2003 >Contributor, The Medusa Project, Maryland Junior Classical League, 1997-1998 ("Heroes of the Mythical World"--Mythology assessment Exam) >Evaluation Team, American Council on Education Credit Department, Maryland State Dept. of Education, May 2001, to evaluate Western Civilization I, Module 1 and 2, The Past: The Present, Module 1 and 2, and History of Western Art, Module 1, 2 (invitation declined due to schedule conflict) (2) Medieval literature and scholarly society organization. E.g., co-founded the International Courtly Literature Society (1973); developed/expanded the group to international status (over a dozen branches, nearly 1,000 members worldwide); served as founding President; organized First Triennial Congress (Philadelphia, 1974); member of original bibliographical team and publisher, Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society, 1973-1980; since 1980, Honorary President. Program Committee, Delaware Valley Medieval Assoc., 1991-92; Invited Honorary Associate, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 2002 to present (3) Various scholarly/community activities. E.g., invited to serve as member of the jury for a doctoral dissertation on the Romances of Antiquity, Université de Caen (Jan. 1983); Université de Paris-III, France (Feb. 1985); on Crusade lyrics, University of Groningen, Holland (5/93). Editorial Consultant, International Journal for the Classical Tradition, Vergilius, Medievalia et Humanistica, Philological Quarterly, PMLA (Publ. of the Modern Language Assoc.). Consultant, "Using the Internet for Classroom Applications," Columbia College (SC), 3/95. Developed, organized, and co-founded The Capitol Film Society, Chambersburg, PA, 9/88; Advisory Board, Franklin County (Pa.) Literacy Council, 1988-89; Elected to Modern Language Assoc./Executive Committee, Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature, 1994-1999; Charlotte, NC Sister Cities Advisory Board (Limoges Sub-Committee), 11/94-6/95; Oakhurst Homeowners' Assoc., Board of Directors, 10/94, Vice-President, 11/94-10/95; President, 11/95-6/96. Southside Virginia YMCA Board of Advisors, 1/97-12/99. Various scholarly/community activities (ctd.) Volunteer Event Co-Organizer, Multiple Sclerosis Walk-A-Thon, March 1997-2001; Co-organizer, Student Leader Workshop, Longwood U., 11/2002 (skit on moral values drawn from Cicero) Other Experience Military: U.S. Navy. June 25-August 23, 1957. High School Hospitalman Recruit. Honorable Discharge (present draft status 3A). Producer and Host, "West Coast Jazz--Score One," 13 radio shows on origins and development of West Coast Jazz in the 50's, WRTI-FM (Philadelphia), 1974-75. Finisher, New York City Marathon, 25 October 1981 (4:52:05); Lewes Seashore Marathon, 9 October 1982 (4:57:46); (finisher, about forty footraces in the Phila. area, 1980-83.) Guest choreographer, Orchesis (Wilson College student dance group), "Garden of Paradox" (to David Bowie/Tina Turner song, Girls), Spring 1989. Amateur Theatre--Role of Mr. Brownlow, Oliver!, Havertown (PA) Players, 6/83; The Gatekeeper, The Wizard of Oz, Chambersburg Community Theatre, 5/89. Fellowships and Honors (a selection) Univ. of Virginia, Faculty Summer Research Grant, 1968, 1969, 1971; Center for Advanced Studies, Sesquicentennial Associateship, fall term, 1972. American Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grants to attend Fifth Intl. Congress of Celtic St., Penzance, Cornwall, 4/75 (chaired sessions on Early Irish Lit.); and Third Triennial Congr., Intl. Courtly Lit. Soc., Liverpool, Engl., 8/80 (chaired Court of Champagne Round Table). The Europe of the Courts Congress, Parma-Piacenza, Italy, 10/76 (invited participant). Temple Univ., Study Leave and Grant-in-Aid of Research, Spring 1977 (Dublin). Chevalier des Palmes Académiques, French Government, 1977. D.Litt., University of Bridgeport, 1980. Distinguished Service Award, Modern Language Assoc. of Philadelphia and Vicinity, "in recognition of dedicated services," 1982. Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, W. Europe, 1983-84 (project on medieval glossed manuscripts of Virgil's Aeneid in Leiden, Bern, and France. French Government/Cultural Services, Scholarship, to attend Business French seminar (advanced level) at the Lyons Graduate School of Commerce, 7/86). Fellowships and Honors (ctd.) National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections Research Grant (to study medieval glossed manuscripts of Virgil's Aeneid, Brussels and Hamburg), 8/86. Freedoms Foundation, National Awards Jury, Valley Forge Honor Certificate for Excellence in Economic Education (Title VI Grant Project), March 1987 Visiting lecturer, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, spring 1989 (on medieval French literature). American Philosophical Society travel grant, 9/89-1/90 (project on medieval manuscripts of Virgil's Aeneid in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana). Fulbright Research Fellowship, Barcelona, Spain, 9/92-1/93 (project on Virgil manuscripts in Spain and S. France). Innovation Grant, Central Piedmont Community College, 1995-96, to develop prototype French grammar lesson using CD-ROM technology Technology Associate, Central Piedmont Community College, 1995-96, to develop instructional technology for computerized assessment in French Faculty Colloquium lecture, Longwood,4/98, on instructional technology project Fellowship, Princeton University Friends of the Library, June 1998 (project on "The French Virgil, 12th-19th Centuries") Courses Taught/Committee work (Before the Ph.D., Level I, II, III College French language, conversation, and surveys of literature.) At U. of Va. (1967-72), in addition to the usual lower level courses, Med. Fr. Lit. in Mod. Fr. Trans., Intro. to Rom. Ling., Structure of Fr. Lang., Med. Fr. Hero, Old French, Seminar on Arthurian Legends, and Early Irish Lit. in Engl. Trans. (for the English Dept.).--Advisor to French majors; founder, Medieval Circle At Temple University (1973-83), lower level courses, plus graduate seminar on the Birth of Romance, Med. Fr. Lit. in Mod. Fr. Trans., Departmental Honors Prgrm. (Chrétien de Troyes), Love in France, Old French, Latin I and II, Executive French, Breakthrough French (Dartmouth Model/ Rassias Method), Humanities survey (Intellectual Heritage-Greeks to Shakespeare), Le Théâtre fr. classique et moderne (independent study). At Wilson College (1984-1994), lower level courses, Contemp. Fr. Theatre, Med. Fr. Lit. in Trans., Business French, French Culture and Civ., Classical Fr. Theater, The Art of Translation, Humanities survey (Core 100--Ancient & Medieval Cultures=202 Roots of Western Culture), Engl. 311:Structure of the English Language, French Women Writers, Courses taught (ctd.) Engl. 101:Written Communication.--French Club; Lectures & Concerts; Judicial Board; Student Affairs; Fac. Athletic Rep.; Summer English Language Prog. Org. Task Force; History Search Comm.; Personnel Comm., Humanities Div.; Adult Lrng. Prgrm. Comm.; Curric. Comm.(+ Task Force on Inner Core-General Education requirements); Philosophy/German Search Comm.; Grievance Review Panel, 2/93; Teacher Education Committee, 1/93-5/93 At Central Piedmont CC (1994-96), lower level French courses At Sothside Virginia CC (fall 1996), Freshman English (Dual-Enrollment program) At Longwood (1997 to present), English 201-Western Literature (re-named World Literature); French 420/Senior Seminar, fall 1997 (French Women Writers); Senior Sem., fall 1998 (The Genesis of Romance); Engl. 442/542-Regional Lit.--Intro. to Medieval Celtic Literature; lower-level French courses Travel Abroad--Country/Purpose-Sponsorship/Dates
viii) Ireland, England; to attend the Third Triennial Congress, Intl. Courtly Literature Society, Liverpool; ACLS--8/80 (1 wk.) ix) Switzerland; job interview and lecture presentations for Chair in Romance Philology; U. Zürich--11/82 (1 wk.) x) France; to serve on examining jury for doctoral dissertation defense (on the Roman d'Eneas) by A. Triaud; Paris and Caen; U. Caen; self-subsidized--1/83 (1 wk.) xi) Holland, Switzerland, France; Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, to study medieval glossed Aeneid manuscripts; Leiden University Library; Burgerbibliothek, Bern; Bibliothèque Nationale and Institut de Recherche d'Histoire des Textes, Paris; Bibliothèque Municipale, Valenciennes; Fulbright Comm.--9/83-6/84 (8 mos.) xii) England; to consult medieval glossed manuscripts of Virgil's Aeneid; British Library and Lambeth Palace; Oxford University and Bodleian libraries; Cambridge University libraries; self-subsidized--1/85 (3 weeks) xiii) England, France, Switzerland, Italy, London, Paris, Burgundy, La Nièvre, Bern, Padua, Venice, Florence, Rome, Pompeii; personal enrichment--7/85 (3 wks.) xiv) France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, Holland; to attend Business French/French Business Seminar, U. of Lyon École des Hautes Études Commerciales; to study, with help from a National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections grant, medieval glossed Aeneid manuscripts in the Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels; in the Univ. Library,Ghent; and in the Univ. of Hamburg Library; and to attend the Fifth Triennial Congress, Intl. Courtly Lit. Soc., Dalfsen-Utrecht; French Gov't./NEH --7-8/86 (7 weeks) xv) Italy, France; sabbatical leave to study medieval glossed Aeneid mss. in the Laurentian Libr., Florence and in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana; and in Paris; and to attend the Sixth Triennial Congress of the Intl. Courtly Literature Society, Univ. of Salerno; Wilson College, self, and American Philosophical Society--6/89-12/89 (6 mos.) xvi) France; to lead a group of 25 Wilson students and alumnae to Paris, Chartres, Versailles, Loire Châteaux, St. Malo, Normandy, and Mont St. Michel; EF Fdn., 1/92 (9 days) xvii) Spain (and France); to study medieval Virgil manuscripts in Madrid, El Escorial, Barcelona, and Montpellier libraries; lectures at the U. of Barcelona; Fulbright Senior Research Grant--9/92-1/93 (4 mos.) xviii) University of Edinburgh, and in the VIII Trienniel Congress, International Courtly Literature Society, Queen's University, Belfast; self-subsidized--7/95-8/95 (10 days) xix) Japan: Yokohama, Toyama, Nagoya, with visits to Kamakura, Namerikawa, Kanezawa, Tateyama, Osaka, Kyoto; guest lectures at Chubu University and Aichi Shukutoku University; to recruit students for Longwood College’s ESL programs; self-subsidized--5/97 xx) France, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic; to negotiate student and faculty exchange programs for Longwood; 5/98 xxi) France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria: Marseille, Paris, Nantes, Berlin, Prague, Salzburg: to recruit foreign students for Longwood and to renew previously-established exchange programs--5/98 (2 weeks) xxii) Vancouver, Canada: to attend and present at the Ninth International Congress, International Courtly Literature Society--7/98 (1 week) xxiii) Italy, France: Rome, Florence, Milan, Marseille, Paris, Nantes; to recruit foreign students in business for Longwood--5/99 (2 weeks) xxiv) Puerto Rico: to attend and present at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities meeting, San Juan--11/99 (1 week) xxv) Greece and Turkey (cruise): Athens, Corinth, Delphi, Aegean islands, Ephesus, Santorini, Rhodes, Ephesus, Istanbul; personal enrichment--5-6/2000 xxvi) France and Germany (Paris, Nantes, Clermont-Ferrand) and Nüremburg; to recruit foreign exchange students for Longwood--6/2000 (1 week) xxvii) France and Italy (Marseille, Tuscany~Florence/Siena, Rome); personal enrichment--5-6/2001 (3 weeks) xxviii) London; fund-raising trip among Longwood alumnae/i--3/2002 (one week)xxix) Wales (Bangor, Gwynedd and Cardiff/Caerleon)--7-8/2002; to attend the XXth International Arthurian Congress and personal enrichment (10 days) xxx) Valencia, Spain, 12/2002; Christmas/New Year holiday; personal travel/ enrichment (16 days) Theses Directed (Master's theses, University of Virginia) - Susan Elisabeth Gerlek, "The Legend of Arthur's Survival," 1972 - Nicole Tissot (Crosby) Barnett, "Le Rôle d'Aliénor d'Aquitaine dans le développement de la poésie lyrique des Troubadours dans le Nord de la France," 1972. (Master's thesis, Temple University) - Martha Rowe Dolly, "Thibaut de Champagne: Trouvère courtois," 1975. Professional Meetings Attended (brief sampling of national/international conferences; many self-subsidized) Medieval Academy of America, Annual Meeting, Phila., 1968; Cambridge,MA, 1970; Chapel Hill, NC, 1971; Ithaca, NY, 1973; Cambridge, MA, 1975; New Haven, CT, 1978, New York, 1981 (incl. Suger Symposium); Kalamazoo, 1982; Phila., 1988; Vancouver, B.C., 1990; Princeton, 1991; Knoxville, Tenn., 1994; Washington, D.C., 4/98 Fourth Medieval and Ren. Conf. ("Medieval Hero" theme), SUNY-Binghamton, 1970. Professional Meetings Attended (ctd.) South Atl. Mod. Lang. Assn. mtg, Atlanta, GA, 1971; Washington, 1977; Atlanta, 11/87; 11/93. 11th Medieval Congress, W. Michigan U., Kalamazoo, 1976; 16th, 1981; 17th, 1982; 19th, 1984; 20th, 1985; 21st, 1986; 27th, 1992; 28th, 1993; 38th, 2003. First Mid-Atlantic conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Villanova U., 9/76 (chair, Significant Moments in the Progress of Thought in the Middle Ages, Romance and Renaissance Language and Literature); 9/91. President's Commission on Foreign Languages and International Studies, Regional Hearing, Boston, MA, 5/79. 5th International Congress of Psychoanalysis, International Freudian Movement, New York, 5/81. Modern Language Assn., New York, 12/83; Chicago, 12/85; New York, 12/86; 12/95; D.C., 12/96; Toronto, 12/97; San Francisco, 12/98; Chicago, 12/99 Literature/Film Conference (Literature/Film Quarterly), Salisbury State College, 6/88. American Archeological Association/American Philological Association, Joint Meeting, Baltimore, 1/89. Hokkaido International Foundation, Japanese Language Program Seminar, Johns Hopkins University--School for Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C., 1/89. 20th Annual French Literature Conference, Univ. of South Carolina, 3/92. 45th Kentucky Foreign Language Conf., Lexington, 4/92. Southeastern Medieval Assoc., New Orleans, 9/94, Charleston, 10/95. Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA (paper on sex in advertising), 4/95; Orlando, 4/98 (presentation on sports and sex) VIIth Triennial Congress, International Courtly Literature Society, Amherst, Mass., July-Aug. 1992. 10th International Celtic Studies Congress, U. Edinburgh, 7/95. VIIIth Triennial Congress, International Courtly Literature Society, Queen's Univ., Belfast, N. Ireland, 7/95-8/95. League for Innovation in the Community College, Phoenix, AZ, 11/96. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (presentation given within the AATF “shell"), Nashville, 11/97. IXth Triennial Congress, International Courtly Literature Society, University of British Columbia, 7/98. XXth International Arthurian Congress, Bangor, Gwynedd, N. Wales, 7/02 Memberships--Professional Societies Alliance Française de Charlotte (former Board Member) American Association of Teachers of French American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Anglo-Norman Texts Society Carolina TESOL Foreign Language Association of Virginia (Life Member) International Arthurian Society International Courtly Literature Society International Society for the Classical Tradition Irish Texts Society Medieval Academy of America Modern Language Association Popular Culture Association Société des anciens textes français Vergilian Society The Mediterranean Society (Richmond) Referees
Biography Listed Dictionary of International Biography, 24th ed., 1995 Directory of American Scholars, 10th ed. (2000-2001); Contemporary Authors, 1986-87 ed. International Authors and Writers' Who's Who, 9th ed. Speakers and Lecturers Guide, 2nd ed. International Who's Who of Professionals (2000 ed.) International Directory of Medievalists, 1983 ed. Men of Achievement, 6th, 7th editions; Translation & Translators: Encyclopedia/Index/Register, 1985 Répertoire International des Médiévistes, 5th ed., 2 vols. Paris, Munich, New York, London: K.G. Saur, 1979. Vol.I, pp. 154-155. Who's Who in the South and Southeast, 24th ed., 1995-96; 25th ed., 1997; 26th ed., 1998-99; Who's Who in the East, 25th ed., 1995-96; Who's Who in the World, 13th ed., 1995-96 Who's Who in American Education, 5th ed., 1996-97 Who's Who Among America's Teachers,2000 and 7th ed., 2002 (nominated by a former student) Interviews and Features Feature article, based on interview by Cathy Klarfeld, "Jesus Freaks: A UVa Professor Sees Similarities in the 12th Century Reformation." The Daily Progress [Charlottesville], June 4, 1972 Feature by Dick Pothier, "Method to His Madness." Philadelphia Inquirer, Sun. August 29, 1982 Feature by Walter F. Naedele, "Lessons in Making Welcome." Philadelphia Inquirer, March 25, 1983 Television feature, "Raymond Cormier--An Extraordinary Teacher," NBC's Real People, Sept. 23, 1983 (Byron Allen, Interviewer; George Schlatter, Executive Producer) Interview on the history of St. Valentine's Day, John Grambling Show, WOR Radio, New York City, Feb. 13, 1989 (live); Lynn Cullen Talk Radio Show, WTAE, Pittsburgh, Feb. 14, 1989 (live); "It's a Chemical Reaction: The Science of Love" (on the relevance of Courtly Love/Troubadours--in light of Stephen Jaeger's book Ennobling Love (1999)--With Good Reason, aired Feb., NPR (programming sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities/State Council on Higher Education in Virginia); Microsoft reference, "Stories of Love," 2/2000 Interviews and Features (ctd.) Feature, "First Gent Walks the Walk." Longwood Magazine, vol. 2 (2000). On the Multiple-Scerosis Walk-A-Thon in Farmville, 1997-2001. Feature/Photo, Fairfield College Preparatory School, Alumni News Web page (www.prep.fairfield.edu) Feature articles on the history of St. Valentine's Day, Farmville Herald 11 Feb. 1998; Richmond Times-Dispatch 14 Feb. 1998 (plus others) Brief Summary of Activities Relative to Scholarly Research and Publication, formal and informal presentations (available on request: 25 pages of documentation with full bibliographic details and citations) I. Books. One Heart One Mind: The Rebirth of Virgil's Hero in Medieval French Romance. University, MS: Romance Monographs (Romance Monographs, 3), 1973. Pp. 286. Jean Frappier: Chrétien de Troyes. The Man and His Works. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1982. Pp. xix, 241. (Translated from the 1968 French edition.) Three Ovidian Tales of Love (Piramus et Tisbé, Narcisus et Dané, Philomena et Procné). New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1986. Pp. 336. (Edition of Old French texts.) Four other scholarly books published to date, all in the area of medieval literature. Current projects: two other books are close to completion, two of which are compilations of articles published over the past twenty years or so; the third is a critical bibliography of the medieval French Romances of Antiquity. Two monographs are in preparation--"The Genesis of Romance," revises and extends the scope of my earlier One Heart One Mind; another study, “Timeless Relevance,” studies the problem of translation-cognition, hermeneutics, and especially anachronism in medieval literature. II. Articles. Well over 100 scholarly articles published to date, in learned journals world wide, of which approximately one-half are refereed. The articles, of which about one-fourth were composed in French, focus on topics like the medieval French Romances of Antiquity; literary theory and historicism; the nature, definition, function, and diversity of medieval courtly literature; early Irish heroic narratives; modern cinema; foreign-language teaching methodology; plus a variety of translations and editions of work by others. A recent example: "Synchronizing Myth: Transmission and Continuity in The Judgment of Paris Episode (Roman d'Eneas, vv. 99-182)." With Appendix I: The Judgment of Paris in Some Vatican Aeneid Manuscripts; and Appendix II: Adaptations of the Judgment of Paris, ca. 1649-1995--Creative Arts, Music, and Scholarly Inquiry. Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae VIII (2001): 135-158 [with one b&w MS illustration: Reg. lat. 1671, f. 53r.] III. Reviews. Approximately 300 brief or short reviews for journals like Choice and the Library Journal; about seventy other longer reviews of books in cognate fields, for journals like Speculum, French Review, Cahiers de civilisation médiévale (Poitiers), Medium Aevum (Oxford), Renaissance et Réforme (Canada), Classical Bulletin, Vergilius, Encomia, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, and the (Bryn Mawr) Medieval Review. Reviewer for the new electronic Journal of MultiMedia History (U. Albany), and the Journal of Popular Film and Television (U. Mass.-Amherst). IV. Presentations. Nearly one hundredscholarly papers and informal talks presented to a wide variety of audiences, from international academic meetings in the U.S. and abroad to smaller and less formal civic groups, and from large professional American meetings to medium size teacher groups (60-150). A sampling follows: "Norms of Change: Perceval the Hero Reborn," Symposium on Perceval/ Parzifal, U. Missouri-Columbia (sponsored by Medieval-Renaissance, Comparative Literature, and Univ. Film Committees), 10/79; and to the Dalhousie U. (Nova Scotia), Medieval Circle, 3/81. "The Courtly Hero in Perspective: An Axiology of Romance," Eleventh Annual Conference ("Court Patronage and the Arts"), Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ohio State U., 2/80; South Atlantic Modern Language Assn., International Courtly Literature Society session, Louisville, KY, 11/81; Rice U. (Houston)--Interdepartmental Forum, 10/82.
"Literacy and Self-Discovery in Twelfth-Century Romance," Lilly-Penna. Colloquium, U. Penna., 1/81; New College Medieval Conference, Sarasota, Florida, 3/82; South Central Modern Language Assn., International Courtly Literature Society Section, San Antonio, 10/82; U. de Liège, Belgium (in French), 11/83.
"The Gloss as Heuristic Algorithm: The Paradigmatic Case of the Aeneid and the Roman d'Eneas," Modern Language Assn., Comparative Studies in Medieval Lit. Section, Chicago, 12/85. "Tisbé, Dané, and Procné: Three Old French/Ovidian Heroines in Quest of Personal Freedom," Twentieth SUNY-Binghamton Medieval Conference ("Classics in the Middle Ages" theme), 10/86. "Synchronizing Myth: Transmission and Continuity in the Judgment of Paris Episode (Roman d'Eneas, vv. 99-182)," Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Gettysburg Coll., April 1990; 17th Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis U., Oct. 1990. "Anticipating the Pietà: The Lament for the Arcadian Prince Pallas in the 12th Century Roman d'Eneas," Delaware Valley Med. Assoc., Bryn Mawr Coll., 4/92; MLA-SF, 12/98 "Wild Margins, Tame Text: Inventing the Vernacular in the Gutters of Virgil's Aeneid," XX French Literature Conference, U. South Carolina, 3/92; Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 4/92; "Metaliterature, The Uncanny, Simulacra..." Conference, SUNY-Binghamton, 4-5/93. "Anachronism and the Archeology of the Gloss," Southeastern Medieval Assoc., New Orleans, 9/93; Mountain Insterstate For. Language Conference, Clemson U., 10/93; SAMLA, Atlanta, 11/93; Clinch Valley (Va.) Medieval Conference, 9/97. "'Women Weaken Legs': A Topos in the Anthropolgy of Sports," Popular Culture Assoc., Orlando, Fla., 4/98 "Courtly and Warrior Ethos in Medieval Japanese Heroic Epic," IX Triennial Congress, ICLS, UBC-Vancouver, British Columbia, 7/98 V. Instructional Technology Project "Virtual French/Le Français Virtuel." An Interactive Multimedia Project for Intermediate French Elaborating the Concept of "Cognitive Synergy" and Exploiting Essentials of Grammar and Culture. Designed for CD-ROM. Conceived and Developed with Asymetrix Toolbook by Dr. Raymond Cormier, Technology Associate, 1995-1996 at Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC, and as Visiting Professor of French at Longwood, 1997 to present. Major Presentations to date: 1. SCOLT-Myrtle Beach, March 1997. Presentation of Lesson One (as adapted, in the context of multimedia assessment)--on the use of the relative pronouns in French, in the context of the life, times, travels, loves, and paintings of the Late Impressionist, Paul Gauguin. Features color graphics, authentic music, animation, interactive self-assessment, a video clip from the film Lust for Life, excerpts from Gauguin's Tahitian journal, Noa-Noa ("Perfume"), and simultaneous explanatory voiceover. (Also presented at FLANC-Greensboro, October 1996; at the League for Innovation in the Community College-Phoenix, AZ, November 1996; and MIFLC-UNC-Wilmington, 10/96 and MIFLC, Radford University, 10/2000; at Longwood, 4/98). 2. FLAVA-Richmond; ACTFL/AATF-Nashville, November 1997; also to the Blue Ridge International Conference on Humanities and the Arts, Appalachian State Univ., Boone, 4/2001. Included addition of Lesson Two (now complete) on using correctly the two past tenses in French, le passé composé/l'imparfait--designed in the context of five favorite films by New Wave cinema figure François Truffaut. Draws on grammar illustrations from the director's voluminous correspondence, color and black & white graphics, with film music and voiceover, self-assessment module, bibliography and filmography, and four videoclips to illustrate tense usage. 3. Lesson Three (under construction) represents a poem by Paul Verlaine, Mandoline, focusing on the pronunciation of French sounds and reading poetry aloud (not for beginners!). Music complements the lesson, with French chansons embedded (among others), principally musical transcriptions of Mandoline by Claude Debussy and Gabriel Fauré, sung by several mezzo-sopranos and tenors. Also highlighting the ambiance are dozens of visual representations of mandolines--all accompanied by challenging phonetics tutoring with animation and a self-assessment module (in collaboration with undergraduate Speech Pathology majors). --Upon the completion of Lesson Three, a publisher will be sought to market the twenty-four lesson project on CD-ROM.
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