Chrétien Continued: A Study of the Conte du Graal and its Verse Continuations. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
Professor of French
Professor of French
romance languages and literatures
Academic Degrees
Ph.D., M. Phil., Yale University; A.B., Bryn Mawr College
Research Areas
Medieval French Literature, especially 12th and 13th c. Romance, Verse and Prose Narrative, Troubadour and Trouvère Lyric
Awards and Honors
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006.
Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 1985-1986.
Books
Co-ed, and trans., Songs of the Women Troubadours, with Laurie Shepard, and Sarah White. New York: Garland Publishers, Inc., 1995 (revised paperback edition 2000).
Shaping Romance: Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
Narrative Invention in Twelfth-Century French Romance: The Convention of Hospitality (1160-1200). Lexington, Kentucky: French Forum, Publishers, 1980.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
“Speaking Through Animals in Marie de France’s Lais and Fables.” A Companion to Marie de France, ed. Logan E. Whalen. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. 157-85.
“Bodies, Textual, Metaphorical and Real: Problematizing Hospitality in the Bible moralisée.” The New Arcadia Review 4 (2011) .
“Between Prophecy and Plainte in the Roman de Troie.” Electronic Antiquity. XIV.1 (November 2010 but released in November 2011).
“Marcabru et la chanson de croisade: d’un centre à l’autre.” Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale 53 (2010): 219-36.
“L’imagination de la mort chez les amants tristaniens: prose et vers, chant et narration.” Des Tristan en vers au Tristan en prose: Hommage à Emmanuèle Baumgartner, ed. Laurence Harf-Lancner, Laurence Mathey-Maille, Bénédicte Milland-Bove & Michelle Szkilnik. Paris: Champion, 2009: 309-24.
“Chrétien de Troyes,” in A Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature, ed. Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 79-84.
“Of Cannibalism and Cligès.” Arthuriana 18.3, Fall 2008: 19-32.
“Où sont les Arrageoises dans le Jeu de saint Nicolas?” Romania 126, 2008: 507-17.
“The Pitfalls and Promise of Classroom Performance,” in Cultural Performances in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Nancy Freemen Regalado, ed. E. Jane Burns, Roberta Krueger, and Eglal Doss-Quinby. Boydell & Brewer, 2007: 279-87.
“Acts of Nomination: Naming Names and Troubadour Poetry.” Introduction to a special issue of Tenso with papers from a session sponsored by the Société Guilhem IX, Kalamazoo 2004. Tenso: Bulletin of the Société Guilhem IX 22.1-2, Spring-Fall 2007: 1-8.
“LeFresne’s Model for Twinning in the Lais of Marie de France.” Modern Language Notes 121, 2006: 946-60.
“Arthur in the Narrative Lay” in Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, IV The Arthur of the French, ed. Glyn Burgess and Karen Pratt. Cardiff: The Vinaver Trust and the University of Wales Press, 2006: 186-214 (co-authored with Glyn Burgess; my section is on Marie de France’s Lais, 187-98, 206-8).
“Clever Foxes, Fierce Lions, Diabolical Dragons: Animals Tell Tales in Medieval Arts and Letters." In Secular/Sacred, 11th-16th Century: Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts. Ed. Nancy Netzer. Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2006: 19-42.
“Authorial Relays: Continuing Chrétien’s Conte du Graal.” The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature, ed. Virginie Greene. New York/Houndmills, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006: 13-28.
“The Miracle of Compound Interest, or Accounting Games in the Jeu de Saint Nicolas.” “Contez me tout”: Mélanges de langue et de littérature médiévales offerts à Herman Braet. Réunis par Catherine Bel, Pascale Dumont et Frank Willaert. Leuven: Peeters, 2006: 39-55.
Recent Papers and Presentations
“Reinventing Memories of Troy for the Anglo-Norman Court: Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie.” International Medieval Meeting, Lleida, Spain, June 28-July 1, 2011.
“Remembering the Trojan War: Violence Past, Present and Future in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie.” Public Lecture, Northwestern University, 13 October 2011.
“Speaking Through Animals in Marie de France’s Lais and Fables,” Public Lecture, Hamilton College, 1 March 2010.
“Laughter Where You Least Expect It: The Puzzling Pleasures of Humor.” Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Yale University, New Haven, 18-20 March 2010.
New England Medieval Conference, “Law and Justice in the Middle Ages.” Cambridge, MA, 31 October 2009.
“Marie de France and the Anonymous Lais.” 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 7-10, 2009.
Boston College
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Lyons Hall 307B
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3804
Phone: 617-552-3823
FAX: 617-552-2064
Email: matilda.bruckner@bc.edu
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