ACADEMIC CURRICULUM VITAE
Name:
Nievergelt
First Name:
Marco
Place and date of birth:
Bern, 13 June 1976
Nationality:
Swiss
Professional Address:
Marco Nievergelt
Institut d’Etudes Avencées de Paris
17 Quai D’Anjou
75004 PARIS
FRANCE
[email protected]
Private Address 1 :
13 Rue Brezin
Bâtiment B
75014 Paris
France
Private Address 2 :
Via Cademario 21
6934 Bioggio – TI
SWITERLAND
tel. +41 79 555 61 86
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Higher Education
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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
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2002-2003: writing of an MPhil thesis by research at the University of
Glasgow,
Department of English Language.
Thesis title: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Initiatory Symbolism and the
Secular Orders of Chivalry
Supervisor: Prof. Graham Caie
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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 1998. 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
EURIAS Junior Research Fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA)
(Sept. 2015–June 2016)
‘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 (January
2013-June 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 (Teaching Asisstant) in Medieval English, University of Geneva
(Sept 2006-Sept 2007)
PUBLICATIONS (appeared or in press)
A. BOOKS
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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; Comparative Literature
Studies 52/3 (2015): 633–5,
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cls/summary/v052/52.3.ross.html ; Marginalia XVII (Oct.
2013): 41–44,
http://www.marginalia.co.uk/journal/17cambridge/17cambridge_reviews.pdf ]
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[In Progress] Medieval Allegory as Epistemology: Dream-Vision Poetry on
Language, Cognition and Experience. Book Project, 2012–16, in progress,
completion of manuscript expected in summer 2016.
B. EDITED VOLUMES
I. Ed., with Stephanie A. V. G. Kamath, The ‘Pèlerinage’-Allegories of Guillaume
de Deguileville: Tradition, Authority and Influence (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer,
2013).
II. Ed. special journal issue of Arthuriana 20/2, on ‘The Alliterative Morte Arthure
in Context’ (April 2010).
III. Ed., with Mary Carr and Kenneth P. Clarke, On Allegory: Some Medieval Aspects
and Approaches (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).
C. ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
1. ‘Allegory, Hermeneutics and Textuality: The French Lineage of Langland’s
Revisionary Poetics’, Forthcoming with Yearbook of Langland Studies 30 (2016)
[In Press].
2. ‘Writing of the ‘hoole book’ of King Arthur: the inscription of textual subjectivity
in Malory’s Morte Darthur’, Modern Philology 113/4 (2016), 460–81.
3. ‘From disputatio to predicatio – and back again: Dialectic, Authority and
Epistemology between the Roman de la Rose and the Pèlerinage de Vie
Humaine’, New Medieval Literatures 16 (2015), 135–71.
4. ‘The Place of Emotion: Space, Silence and Interiority in the Stanzaic Morte
Arthure’, Arthurian Literature 32 (2015), 31–58.
5. ‘The Sege of Melayne and the Siege of Jerusalem: National Identity, Beleaguered
Christendom and Holy War during the Great Papal Schism.’ Chaucer Review 49/4
(2015), 402–26.
6. ‘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.
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7. ‘The Chivalric Imagination in the Elizabethan Age’, Literature Compass 8
(2011), 302-15.
8. ‘Paradigm, Intertext or Allegorical Reminiscence: Guillaume de Deguileville and
the Gawain-Poet’, Medium Aevum 80/1 (2011), 18-40.
9. ‘Catholic Loyalism, Counsel and Careerism: Lewes Lewkenor’s Quest for
Favour’, Renaissance Studies 24/4 (2010), 536-558.
10. ‘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’.]
11. ‘Francis Drake: Merchant, Knight and Pilgrim’, Renaissance Studies 23/1 (2009),
53-70.
12. ‘The Inward Crusade: the Apocalypse of the Queste del Saint Graal’.
Neophilologus 92/1 (2008), 1-17.
D. ARTICLES IN COLLECTIONS (PEER-REVIEWED)
13. ‘Giving Freely in Sir Cleges: The Economy of Salvation and the Gift of
Romance’. Invited contribution for Re-viewing Romance: A volume in Honour of
Helen Cooper, ed. Megan Leitch, Elizabeth Archibald and Corinne Saunders
(Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer). In Press, forthcoming 2017.
14. ‘Textuality as Sexuality: The Generative Poetics of the Roman de la Rose’, in
Elisabeth Dutton and Martin Rhode (eds.), Medieval Theories of the Creative Act
(Fribourg: Presses Universitaires de Fribourg). In Press, forthcoming 2017.
15. ‘Can Thought Experiments Backfire? Avicenna’s Flying Man, Intellectual
Cognition and the Experience of Allegory in Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de Vie
Humaine’ In Philip Knox, Jonathan Morton and Daniel Reeve (eds.), Thought
Experiments and Hypothesis in Medieval Europe, 1100–1400 (Turnhout:
Brepols). In Press, forthcoming 2017.
16. ‘The Failures of Allegory or the Allegory of Failure: Space, Time and
Subjectivity in Narrative Allegory, ca. 1230–1600’. Invited contribution for a
volume on Allegory Studies? ed. Vladimir Blrjak (London: Chatto and Pickering,
2016), In Press, forthcoming 2016.
17. ‘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), pp. 721-46.
18. ‘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.
19. ‘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
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image mentale et pays transfiguré, ed. Christophe Imbert et Philippe Maupeu,
(Presses Universitaires de Rennes 2012).
20. ‘René d’Anjou et l’idéal chevaleresque’, in René d’Anjou, Ecrivain et Mécène, ed.
Florence Bouchet (Turnhout: Brepols 2011), pp. 239-53.
E. SHORTER NOTICES
21. ‘Allegory’. Commissioned article entry for the Blackwell Encyclopaedia of
British Medieval Literature, ed. Robert Rouse and Sian Echard. In press,
forthcoming 2016. (ca. 5000-words)
22. 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)
23. 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)
F. REVIEWS
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Review of Elizabeth Elliott, Remembering Boethius: Writing Aristocratic Identity
in Late Medieval French and English Literatures. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012),
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 37 (2015), 289–93.
Review of John Moreau, Eschatological Subjects: Divine and Literary Judgment
in Fourteenth-Century French Poetry (Columbus: Ohio State University Press,
2014), Medium Aevum 84.2 (2015), 350–1.
Review of Ruth Lexton, Contested Language: The Politics of Romance in
Fifteenth-Century England (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Modern
Philology 113.1 (2015), E8–E10.
Review of Guillaume de Deguileville, Le Dit de la Fleur de Lys, ed. Frédéric
Duval (Paris: Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Chartes, 2014), Medium Aevum 84.2
(2015), 358.
Review of Raluca Radulescu, Romance and its Contexts in Fifteenth-Century
England. Politics, Piety and Penitence. (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013),
forthcoming with Scriptorium.
Review of The Middle English Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, ed.
Carrie Griffin (Heidelberg: Universitätverlag Winter, 2013). Forthcoming with
Scriptorium.
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.
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Review of The Knightly Tale of Golagros and Gawane, ed. Ralph Hanna III,
Scottish Text Society (Woodbridge: 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: D.S. Brewer, 2008), Notes and Queries 57:1
(2010), 124-5.
Review of Sir Francis Drake: The Construction of a Hero (Cambridge: D.S.
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.
G. TRANSLATIONS
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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 2016). [from English into
French]
CONFERENCE AND EVENT ORGANISATION
June 2016
Organisation of an international congress on the The ‘Roman de la Rose’
and Parisian Philosophy in the Thirteenth Century / Le Roman de la Rose
et la Philosophie Parisenne au Treizième Siècle’. Co-organisers: John
Marenbon (Trinity College, Cambridge), and Jonathan Morton (King’s
College, London). To be held at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies.
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 ‘Journeys in
medieval and early modern Europe’. Conception, planning and coordination of a series of
eight public lectures, 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,
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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 P. 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
(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
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10-15 July 2016. New Chaucer Society Congress, London. Organisation of two
round table sessions on ‘The Experience of Fiction’ (co-organiser Prof. Julie
Orlemanski, University of Chicago); presentation on ‘Guillaume de Deguileville
and the Limits of Didactic Allegory: Literary Authorship as Residual
Subjectivity’
21 April 2016. Université de Rennes, Séminaire du CETM (Invited Lecture): ‘La
tradition Arthurienne Tardive en Angleterre’
23 February 2016, Magdalene College, Cambridge: Invited talk for the
Magdalene Medieval Society: ‘The Shadow of Faux Semblant: Fiction,
Deception, and Truth in Fourteenth-Century Allegory (France, England, Italy)’
2-4 December 2015, 'L'ombre de Faus Semblant: fiction, tromperie et vérité dans
l'allégorie narrative au xivème siècle (France, Italie, et Angleterre)'. Colloque sur
L’homme comme animal politique et parlant, Ecole Française de Rome (invited
contribution).
7–9 September 2015, ‘Creation, Reproduction and Idolatry: Pygmalion and
Generative Textuality in the Tradition of the ‘Roman de la Rose’. Fribourg
Medieval Colloquium on Medieval Theories of the Creative Act (invited
contribution).
23–26 July 2015, ‘Allegory, Hermeneutics and Textuality: the French lineage of
Langland’s re-visionary poetics’ in Roundtable on Langland and the French
Tradition (invited); and separate paper on ‘Allegory and the Limits of Analogy:
Perception, Imagination and Cognition between Scholasticism and Penitential
Poetry’. Sixth international Piers Plowman Conference, University of
Washington, Seattle, US.
13–14 April 2015, ‘Can Thought Experiments Backfire? Avicenna’s Flying Man,
Intellectual Cognition and the Experience of Allegory in Deguileville’s
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Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine’. Congress on Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry
and Speculation in Medieval Europe, 1100–1400, University of Oxford.
13 March 2015, Allegory and Epistemology: Roger Bacon and Jean de Meun’s
Roman de la Rose, presentation at the ‘Medieval Philosophy UK Network’ biannual meeting, Warburg Institute, London (invited contribution).
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 (invited contribution).
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. Lecture at the Centre for Medieval
Studies, Université Catholique de Louvain (invited).
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.
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.
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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.
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’.
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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.
ACTIVITIES AS PEER-REVIEWER
Peer-reviews of submissions to Arthuriana, Speculum, Modern Philology and
Yearbook of Langland Studies.
Reader for book proposals to the University of Notre Dame Press.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Université de Lausanne
September 2007- 2015
Courses taught:
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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)
MA Seminar: Jews, Saracens and Christians: Holy War and Cultural Encounter
in Middle English Literature (autumn 2011)
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)
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.
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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.
LANGUAGE TEACHING 1998–2001
- (Lausanne): language teaching, primarily English and German, in a number of
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). Preparation of students for their A-level
exams (Maturité).
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 and defended 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 (Currently Gates Foundation Phd
student at Cambridge).
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)
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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.
2007–2010
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.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Sep. 2015 – June 2016
EURIAS junior fellowship (stipendiary) at the Paris
Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA)
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 (non-stipendiary) 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
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PREVIOUS RANKINGS FOR JOB INTERVIEWS
March 2016
Shortlisted for interview, post of Ussher Assistant Professor in Medieval
Literature (tenure-track), School of English, Trinity College Dublin.
Jan. 2016
Shortlisted for the final round of a Swiss National Science Foundation
(SNSF) Professorship grant (4 year research project as Principal
Investigator, with 2 further team members).
May 2015
Shortlisted for interview (No ranking given). Post of Lecturer
(= ‘Associate Professor’) in Medieval English Literature (tenured), School
of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London.
April 2015
Secundo loco (2nd place on the final shortlist)
Post of Lecturer (= ‘Associate Professor’) in Medieval Literature
(tenured), Department of English and Related Literature, University of
York (UK).
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).
SOCIETY 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)
LANGUAGES
German :
Native Speaker
Italian :
Native Speaker (Bilingual)
French :
Perfectly Fluent
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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]
Paris, April 2016.
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