ACADEMIC / GENERAL CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Nievergelt First Name: Marco Place and date of birth: Bern, 13 June 1976 Nationality: Swiss Professional Address: English Department Faculty of Letters - Anthropole 5143 University of Lausanne 1015 Lausanne SWITZERLAND Tel. +41 21 692 29 90 Fax +41 21 692 29 35 [email protected] Private Address 1 : Via Cademario 21 6934 Bioggio – TI SWITERLAND tel. +41 79 555 61 86 Private Address 2 : Rue Brezin 13B 75014 Paris France [email protected] EDUCATION Higher Education - 2003 –2007: the University of Oxford, Lincoln College. Writing of a DPhil (PhD) thesis on a Berrow Foundation Scholarship for the duration of three years. Thesis title: Spiritual Knighthood, Allegorical Quests: the Knightly Quest in Sixteenth-Century England. Thesis defended: November 2007. Supervisors: Dr Helen Moore and Prof. Helen Cooper - 2002-2003: writing of an MPhil thesis by research at the University of Glasgow, Department of English Language. 1 Thesis title: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Initiatory Symbolism and the Secular Orders of Chivalry Supervisor: Prof. Graham Caie - 1995-2001: Licence ès Lettres (Master of Arts), Université de Lausanne, Departments of English and German Languages and Literatures (Joint Degree). - February-July 2000: writing of my undergraduate Thesis as a visiting Student at the University of Glasgow, Thesis title: Norman MacCaig: a Physical Metaphysical; - September 1997–June 2008. One year spent at the University of Aberdeen as part of the Erasmus exchange programme. 1991–95: Maturità, Liceo Lugano 1, Indirizzo Scientifico (Tipo C). EMPLOYMENT HISTORY ‘Ambizione’ Research Fellow SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation), University of Lausanne (August 2012-July 2015): Project title: Allegory, Epistemology and Hermeneutics Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford (September 2012-August 2013) ‘Maître Assistant’ (Lecturer) in Early English Language and Literature, University of Lausanne (Aug. 2010-August 2012) ‘Premier Assistant’ (Junior Lecturer) in Early English Language and Literature, University of Lausanne (Sept. 2007- Aug. 2010) Assistant Diplomé (Junior Lecturer) in Medieval English, University of Geneva (Sept 2006-Sept 2007) PUBLICATIONS (appeared) BOOK - Allegorical Quests from Deguileville to Spenser (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2012). [reviews in : Review of English Studies 64 (247) (2013), doi: 10.1093/res/hgt037; English 62 (239) (2013): 411-413, doi: 10.1093/english/eft051; Marginalia XVII (Oct. 2013): 41–44, http://www.marginalia.co.uk/journal/17cambridge/17cambridge_reviews.pdf 2 EDITED COLLECTIONS - Ed., with Stephanie A. V. G. Kamath, The ‘Pèlerinage’-Allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville: Tradition, Authority and Influence (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013). Ed. special journal issue of Arthuriana 20:2, on ‘The Alliterative Morte Arthure in Context’ (April 2010). Ed., with Mary Carr and K.P. Clarke, On Allegory: Some Medieval Aspects and Approaches (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS - ‘Siege Literature : English Identity, Beleaguered Christianity and Holy War during the Great Papal Schism.’ In press, forthcoming from Chaucer Review (2014). ‘The Quest for Knighthood in the Waning Middle Ages: the Wanderings of Olivier de la Marche and René d’Anjou’, Fifteenth Century Studies 36 (2011), 137-67. ‘The Chivalric Imagination in the Elizabethan Age’; invited contribution to the journal Literature Compass 8 (2011), 302-15. ‘Paradigm, Intertext or Allegorical Reminiscence: Guillaume de Deguileville and the Gawain-Poet’; Medium Aevum 80:1 (2011), 18-40. ‘Catholic Loyalism, Counsel and Careerism: Lewes Lewkenor’s Quest for Favour’, Renaissance Studies 24:4 (2010), 536-558. ‘Conquest, Crusade and Pilgrimage: the Alliterative Morte Arthure in its late Ricardian Crusading Context’ Arthuriana 20:2 (2010), 89-116. [Awarded the James Randall Leader Prize for ‘Outstanding Arthurian Article in 2010’.] ‘Francis Drake: Merchant, Knight and Pilgrim’, Renaissance Studies 23:1 (2009), 53-70. ‘The Inward Crusade: the Apocalypse of the Queste del Saint Graal’. Neophilologus 92:1 (2008), 1-17. ARTICLES IN COLLECTIONS (PEER-REVIEWED) - - ‘Invisible Itineraries: The textual wanderings of Guillaume Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine in Sixteenth-Century England and Europe’. Article commissioned for the volume Mittelalterliche Textualität als Retextualisierung: Das Textcorpus de “Pèlerinage de la vie humaine” im europäischen Mittelalter des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts, ed. Ursula Peters und Andreas Kablitz (Winter Verlag, 2014). [In press] ‘Introduction’ , in The ‘Pèlerinage’-Allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville: Authority, Tradition and Influence, ed. Stephanie Kamath and Marco Nievergelt (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2013), pp. 1-23. ‘Entre paysage allégorique et allégorie du paysage: locus amoenus, exil pastoral et terre inculte dans l’oeuvre de Edmund Spenser’. In Le paysage allégorique entre 3 - image mentale et pays transfiguré, ed. Christophe Imbert et Philippe Maupeu, (Presses Universitaires de Rennes 2012). ‘René d’Anjou et l’idéal chevaleresque’, in René d’Anjou, Ecrivain et Mécène, ed. Florence Bouchet (Turnhout: Brepols 2011), pp. 239-53. SHORTER NOTICES - Critical Introduction to ‘Lewes Lewkenor: The Resolved Gentleman (1594 – STC 15139)’; Early English Books Online, Critical Introductions Project. Published Online September 2008, EEBO. (ca. 4000 words) Critical Introduction to ‘Stephen Bateman: The Travayled Pylgrime (1569 – STC 1585)’; Early English Books Online, Critical Introductions Project. Published Online September 2008, EEBO. (ca. 4000 words) REVIEWS - Review of Nicholas Perkins and Alison Wiggins, The Romance of the Middle Ages (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2012), for Notes & Queries 60.2 (2013), 308309. - Review of Laura Ashe, Ivana Djordjević and Judith Weiss (eds), The Exploitations of Medieval Romance. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), for Notes and Queries, 59.1 (2012), 113-114. - Review of The Knightly Tale of Golagros and Gawane, ed. Ralph Hanna III, Scottish Text Society (Boydell and Brewer, 2008), Notes and Queries, 58:2 (2011), 305-7. - Review of Sir Bevis of Hampton in Literary Tradition, ed. Jennifer Fellows and Ivana Djordjevic (Cambridge: Brewer, 2008), Notes and Queries 57:1 (2010), 124-5. - Review of Sir Francis Drake: The Construction of a Hero (Cambridge, Brewer, 2009), English 60. 230 (2011), 253-6. - Review of Gilte Legende, Vols. I and II. Edited by Richard Hamer with the assistance of Vida Russell. Pp. xvi + 1036 (EETS 327 + 328), Notes and Queries, 56:1 (2009), 102-3. - Review of The Seven Sages of Rome (Midland Version). Edited by Jill Whitelock. Pp. lxxx + 183 (EETS 324), Notes and Queries 56:1 (2009), 104-5. TRANSLATIONS - Michael C. Prestwich, ‘Othon de Grandson et la Cour d’Edouard I d’Angleterre’, in Othon Ier de Grandson (1228-1328): Un siècle d’histoire vaudoise et européenne, ed. Bernard Andenmatten (forthcoming 2014). [from English into French] PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS OR UNDER REVIEW 4 ARTICLES - - ‘Writing of the ‘hoole book’ of King Arthur: the inscription of authorial subjectivity in Malory’s Morte Darthur’. Under review. ‘From dialecticism to didacticism – and back again: Allegory, Epistemology and Authority between the Roman de la Rose and the Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine’. Under review. ‘From Bedroom to Cloister: Space, Emotion and Identity in the Stanzaic Morte Arthure’. In progress, completion expected: April 2014. ‘Allegory’. Commissioned 5000-word article for the Blackwell Encyclopaedia of British Medieval Literature, ed. Robert Rouse and Sian Echard. Submission agreed July 2014. BOOK Allegory, Epistemology and Hermeneutics. Book Project, 2012–15, in progress. CONFERENCE ORGANISATION 2010-12 Co-convenor, with Dr. Eva Pibiri, of the new Interdisciplinary MA Specialisation programme of the Centre for Medieval Studies (CEMEP) for 2011-12 at the University of Lausanne, on the theme of ‘Travel in medieval and early modern Europe’. Conception, planning and coordination of a public lecture series and a cycle of 4 transdisciplinary, one-day MA student workshops, invitation of external speakers and management of workshop structure, coursework and evaluation of the students. (Budget ca. 5000 CHF; funding sources mostly internal to UNIL) 2011 Conception, planning and management of the International conference on the ‘The Allegory of Guillaume Deguileville in Europe: Circulation, Reception and Influence’ at the University of Lausanne, in collaboration with Stephanie Kamath from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Publication of a volume of selected and reworked articles with D.S. Brewer, Cambridge, in 2013. (Budget ca. 25’000 CHF; external sources: SNF, Swissnex Boston; Society for the Study of Medieval Languages, Oxford; internal sources UNIL: CEMEP; English Department; Centre de Traduction Littéraire; Fondation du 450ème) 2005-2008 Conception, Planning and management of the first four ‘Oxford Medieval Graduate Conferences’. The conference is the result of my initial collaboration with Kenneth Clarke, and is the first ‘interdisciplinary’ conference of its kind to be held in Oxford, addressed specifically to graduates and young scholars. Themes: Allegory (2005); Death and Resurrection (2006); Judgement and Apocalypse 5 (2007); Light (2008). It has now become a well-established annual event, with selected proceedings published annually as part of the Medium Aevum monographs series. (Budget: ca. 1000 £ per conference; sources: Lincoln College, Oxford; English Faculty, Oxford; Society for the Study of Medieval Languages, Oxford). SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS / GUEST LECTURES - - 8–11 May 2014, ‘Organic Growth: sexual (re)production and textual proliferation in the tradition of the Rose’. Kalamazoo, MI, 49th International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University 13 April 2014, ‘From Bedroom to Cloister: Space, Emotion and Identity in the Stanzaic Morte Arthure’. 14th Biennial Conference on Romance in Medieval Britain, University of Bristol. 7 November 2013: The Failures of Allegory or the Allegory of Failure: subjectivity, Narrative, History, at Allegory Studies? Interdisciplinary one-day conference at the University of Warwick. 11 July 2013: Translating Scholastic Authority: Allegory and Epistemology between the Roman de la Rose and the Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine. The Medieval Translator Conference, University of Leuven. 7 June 2013: Seeing, Hearing and Understanding: Allegory, Cognition and the Senses in the Tradition of Guillaume de Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine. Conference on ‘The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern English Culture’, University of Berne, Switzerland. 25 March 2013: Un best-seller médiéval au xvième siècle: Le Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine de Guillaume de Deguileville en quête de modernité. Invited Lecture at the University of Geneva for the Groupe d’Etudes du xvième et xviième siècles. 13 February 2013: Charlemagne Goes to Britain: La réception de la Matière de France en Angleterre aux xiv-xv siècles. Invited Lecture at the Centre for Medieval Studies, Université Catholique de Louvain. 7 December 2012: Allégorie et épistémologie: L’ABC herméneutique de Guillaume de Deguileville. Conference on Fonction et Symbolique du Rêve dans la Pensée Médiévale, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Geneva. 19 October 2012 : Eucharist and Community in Medieval English Literature, Drama and society. Cours Interdisciplinaire du CEMEP, Université de Lausanne. 24 March 2012 : Siege Literature: English Identity, Beleaguered Christianity and Holy War during the Great Papal Schism (1378–1415). Romance in Medieval Britain Conference, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford. 29 July 2011: Writing the ‘hoole book’ of King Arthur: revisionism, monumentalism and authorial identity in Malory’s Morte Darthur. XXIII International Arthurian Congress at the University of Bristol, UK, 25-30 July 2011. 6 - - - 17 May 2011 : Allegory and Epistemology: learning to read with Guillaume de Deguileville, Modern Languages Research Seminar, University of Oxford. (invited). July 2010: Pilgrim to Courtier: Stephen Hawes, the Royal Library and the tradition of Deguileville’s allegorical Pilgrimage of Life. Cardiff Conference on Medieval Translation, University of Padua, 23-27 July 2010. July 2010: Authorial Identity, Arthurian Revisionism and the Writing of the ‘whole booke’ of King Arthur: Malory’s Representations of Authorship in the Morte Darthur. 2nd International SAMEMES Conference, University of Geneva, 30 June-2 July 2010. June 2010: Three views of a crusade: the Great Schism, beleaguered Christianity and the Despenser Crusade in later fourteenth-century literature. University of Aberystwyth, International conference: ‘Post-medieval Crusades, June 7-9 2010 (invited). April 2010: Entre Paysage Allégorique et Allégorie du Paysage: Locus amoenus, exil pastoral et terre inculte dans l’oeuvre de Edmund Spenser. Colloque: ‘Le Paysage Allégorique’, Toulouse, 7-9 Avril (invited). May 2009: Catholic Loyalism, Service and Careerism: Lewes Lewkenor’s Quest for Favour, Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Geneva, 28-30 May 2009. January 2009: René d’Anjou et l’idéal chevaleresque, Colloque International sur ‘René d’Anjou: Ecrivain et Mécène’, Université de Toulouse - Le Mirail, 22-24 Janvier 2009. October 2008: Source, intertext or textual reminiscence: Guillaume Deguileville and the Gawain-Poet, 1st SAMEMES International Conference, University of Berne, Switzerland, 3-4 October 2008. July 2008: Pilgrimage, Conquest and Crusade in the Alliterative Morte Arthure. Université de Rennes, II, XXII Conference of the International Arthurian Society, 15-20 July 2008. July 2008: Merchant-Adventurers, Wandering Knights and Medieval Pilgrims: The ‘Famous Voyage’ of Sir Francis Drake, Knight. 3rd International Conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, 10-12 July. July 2007: The waning of the Grail: René d’Anjou’s dream of love and chivalry in the Livre du Cuer d’Amour Espris. University of Leeds International Medieval Congress. April 2007: The Inward Crusade of the Queste del Saint Graal; Oxford University, 3rd Medieval Graduate Conference, ‘Judgment and Apocalypse: Aspects and Approaches’. May 2006: Stephen Bateman and the Apocalyptic Quest of the English Reformation; Conférence de 3ème cycle, ‘Medieval and Early Modern English Texts and their Contexts’, Université de Genève. April 2006: Planning, organisation and management of the 2nd Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference on the theme of Death and Resurrection: Aspects and Approaches, held at Lincoln College, 12-13 April July 2005: The Secular Orders of Chivalry, the Knighting Ceremony and ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’; University of Utrecht, XXI Conference of the International Arthurian Society. 7 - - July 2005: Queste, Crusade and Apocalypse in the French ‘Queste del Saint Graal’; University of Leeds International Medieval Congress. June 2005: Conception, planning, organisation and management of the first Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference on the theme of Allegory: Aspects and Approaches, held at Lincoln College, 10-11 June. Chairing of a panel on ‘Allegory and Autobiography’. February 2005: Olivier de La Marche’s agnostic pilgrimage: ‘Le Chevalier Délibéré’; XI postgraduate conference of the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Bristol, on the theme of Medieval Misfits. July 2003: Cosmogony and Myth in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; University of Leeds International Medieval Congress. ACTIVITIES AS PEER-REVIEWER Peer-reviews of submissions to the journals Arthuriana and Speculum. Reader for book proposals to the University of Notre Dame Press. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Université de Lausanne September 2007- present Courses taught: • • • • • • • • • • • • MA Seminar: The Allegory of Piers Plowman: Self and Society in the Fourteenth Century (spring 2014) Introduction to Middle English Literature 1 – Old English (every spring, 2008-12) Introduction to Middle English Literature 2 – Middle English (every autumn, 2007-2011) BA Seminar: The Death of Arthur in England (Spring 2012) BA / MA Seminar: Fourteenth Century Satire, Reform and Apocalypse: William Langalnd’s Piers Plowman (spring 2011) BA / MA Seminar: Sir Philip Sidney: knight, poet, courtier (autumn 2010) MA ‘Critical approaches’ Module: Lecture on New Historicism (autumn 200810) BA Seminar: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Dream-Visions (spring 2010) BA Lecture: English Literature Survey: origins to 1485 (convenor, autumn 2009). MA / BA Seminar: Medieval Pulp Fictions: Popular Romances in Medieval England (autumn 2009) MA Seminar: Edmund Spenser and the Allegory of the Faerie Queene. (spring 2009) BA Seminar: ‘Precios Perle Withouten Spot’: the works of the Gawain-Poet and the Striving for human perfection. (autumn 2008) 8 • BA/MA Seminar: Chivalry and Literature in Medieval England (spring 2008) Université de Genève October 2006 – September 2007 Assistant in Medieval English Literature, teaching first and second year BA students. • • Seminar on Middle English Arthurian Literature General Introduction to Literary Analysis. Hertford College, Oxford University January 2007 – March 2007 Teaching of a Tutorial on Arthurian Literature. THESIS SUPERVISION (MA/MSt) : 2013 : Lynn Muldrew (University of Oxford, co-supervision with Dr Helen Swift) : Identity and Allegory in Guillaume de Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine. Submitted June 2013. 2012-13 : Marcel Elias (University of Lausanne) : Violent Emotions: Crusading and Emotional Process in Middle English Romance (Richard Coer de Lion, Bevis of Hamptoun, Guy of Warwick). Defended June 2013 2012-13 : Thomas Nagy (University of Lausanne): Violence, Wounding and Identity in Arthurian literature (Malory and the Alliterative Morte Arthure). Defended June 2013 2011-12 : Mehdi Guerroury (University of Lausanne): The War of God and Gold: Intermingling Religion and Economics in Middle English Romances (Sir Launfal, The Sowdan of Babylon, Bevis of Hamptoun, sir Isumbras, Sir Cliges). Defended July 2012. 2010-11 : Roxane Feunette (University of Lausanne): Chivalry and its Failures in Medieval English Literature (Malory and the Gawain-Poet). Defended January 2012. OTHER SERVICES, SCIENTIFIC AND INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES 2012–14 Membership of the Board for the attribution of the James Randall Leader Prize, for the best Arthurian article written in English (following the award of the prize for my own article in 2010) 2009–10 Membership of the Committee for the appointment of the new Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Lausanne. Evaluation of applications, selection of candidates and preparation of the selection process based on reading of applications, written work, interview and trial lectures. 9 2007–2009 Berrow Society Presidency: Presidency of the Berrow Society, for former and current beneficiaries of the Berrow Foundation Scholarship at Lincoln College, Oxford. Running of the Society; membership in the Board of selection and interview panel for the attribution of Berrow Foundation Scholarships. GRANTS, AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS Aug. 2012 – July 2015 Ambizione : full-time postdoctoral research fellowship, awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (awarded August 2011): Project title: Allegory, Epistemology and Hermeneutics: Influence and Reception of Guillaume de Deguileville in England, ca. 1350-1450 Sept. 2012 – Aug. 2013 Visiting Postdoctoral Scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford July 2011 James Randall Leader Prize for ‘Outstanding Arthurian Article’ in 2010, awarded by the North-American Branch of the Arthurian Society [for the article ‘Conquest, Crusade and Pilgrimage: the Alliterative Morte Arthure in its late Ricardian Crusading Context’ Arthuriana 20:2 (2010), 89-116] Sept. 2006 – Aug. 2007 Swiss National Science Foundation Grant for Young Researchers (NB : the offer of the grant had to be declined given the offer of an Assistant position at the University of Geneva at the same time) Sept. 2003 – Sept. 2006 Overseas Research Scholarship (UK) (Lincoln College, University of Oxford) Sept. 2003 – Sept. 2006 Berrow Foundation Society Scholarship (Lincoln College, University of Oxford) Full funding and living allowance for the writing of a DPhil PREVIOUS RANKINGS FOR JOB INTERVIEWS May 2011 Secundo loco (2nd place on the final shortlist) Post of Associate Professorship in Medieval English Language and Literature (tenured), University of Fribourg (Switzerland). 10 SOCIETY AND CLUB MEMBERSHIPS: International Arthurian Association, British Branch New Chaucer Society Spenser Society Early English Text Society Swiss Association for Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES) Swiss Association of University Teachers of English (SAUTE) Club Silencio, Paris RELEVANT NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE CULTURAL EVENTS 2001 (Locarno) 6 weeks working full time for the Hospitality Service of the ‘Festival del Film di Locarno’: coordination of hotel bookings for guests and journalists; managing and coordinating a team of 15 drivers during the Festival; hospitality relations with guests and journalists; responsibility for the Hospitality desk during the Festival. 1995–2001 (Lugano) Work for the Estival Jazz Lugano each summer: assistance to sound engineers, assistance to artists during sound check and performance, stage hand, security, driver. MUSIC 2007–13 (Lausanne and Geneva): Occasional musical activity, with Jazz and Chanson ensembles; music for theatre. 2003–6 (Oxford) Regular performance with various ensembles of professional musicians from the Oxford Area (Jazz); Double Bassist in the Oxford University Philharmonia; Double Bassist in the Oxford University Jazz Orchestra. 2001–2002: (Lausanne) Entry into the Professional Course at the EJMA in Lausanne (Ecole de Jazz et Musique Actuelle), for one year of study (advanced instrumental classes; harmony and counterpoint; performance; piano; musical theory). Frequent performances with professional musicians (Jazz and Chanson) 1995–2001 (Lausanne): Study of Double Bass, Jazz and Classical, with Pierre-François Massy and Ivor Malherbe. Activity in a number of ensembles and orchestras (primarily Jazz, Experimental, Noise, Folk, Chanson and Rock) 1990–95 (Lugano): Study of Jazz Guitar and Bass Guitar with Giorgio Meuwly; courses in the pre-professional preparatory class at the Scuola di Musica Moderna (SMUM). Activity in various local bands (Jazz, Experimental, Noise, Punk) LANGUAGE TEACHING 1998–2001(Lausanne): language teaching, primarily English and German, in a number of 11 private schools and companies (Diavox Lausanne; Ecole Hotelière de Glion et Bulle; LOGO Schule Montreux). (Lausanne Area and Lugano) Several replacements at high school level as professor of English language and literature (e.g. 3 months at Liceo Lugano 1 e 2; 6 months at the Gymnase de Morges) LANGUAGES German : Native Speaker Italian : Native Speaker (Bilingual) French : Perfectly Fluent English : Perfectly Fluent REFEREES Dr. Helen D. Moore Corpus Christi College Merton Street Oxford OX1 4JF England Prof. Helen Cooper Magdalene College Magdalene Street Cambridge CB3 0AG England [email protected] [email protected] Prof. Graham Caie Department of English Language 12, University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland Prof. Denis Renevey English Department Anthropole 5066 University of Lausanne 1015 Lausanne Switzerland [email protected] [email protected] Lausanne, January 2014. 12
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