Leslie Zarker Morgan

Associate Professor (Italian and French)
Co-Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

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• Education
• Research and Teaching Interests
• Courses Taught at Loyola College: Italian, in English translation, French
  
• College Activities
• Publications: Recent Articles, Book Reviews, Other Publications, Book-length publications
• Presentations at scholarly conferences
  
• Online Projects
• Memberships in Academic Societies
• Recent Awards

Education

• Yale University, MA, MPhil, PhD (Italian Language and Literature)
• Middlebury College, MA (Italian)
• Mount Holyoke College, AB (Medieval Civilization)

Research and Teaching Interests

 Italian and French language and literature: their relationship and connections in the medieval and renaissance periods
    (chanson de geste and its development in the Italian peninsula; Italian renaissance lyric and its developments in France; 
    computational philology; lexical and technical echoes between works across languages)
Foreign language pedagogy: teaching at all levels in a coordinated, interdisciplinary collaborative manner
    (Italian language instruction; uses of technology, including the computer, at all levels of language instruction and testing;teaching of literature)
Humor: its development in literary contexts
     (levels of interpretation in  literary texts and changes over time and place and how these lead to humor; how to appreciate literary humor)

Teaching: Courses Taught at Loyola College

Courses in Italian:

• IT 101, IT 102, IT 103, IT 104; IT 161 (Elementary Italian I and II; Intermediate Italian I and II; Comprehensive Beginning Italian)
• IT 201 Conversation and Composition
• IT 301 Italian Literature and Civilization I: Origins to Reform
• IT 352 La Divina Commedia di Dante

Courses in English:

• ML 250 Introduction to Medieval French Literature (In English translation)
• ML 251 Introduction to Medieval Italian Literature (In English translation)
• ML 332 Dante's Inferno, Dante's Divine Comedy (In English translation)
• ML 333  Witches, Giants and Tyrants, Oh My! Introduction to Italian Renaissance Literature (In English translation)

Courses in French:

• FR 101, FR 102 (Elementary French I and II); FR 103 (Intermediate French I)
• FR 350 From Charlemagne to Arthur: Introduction to Medieval French Literature (in Modern French)
• FR 351 French Women Writers of the Renaissance (in Modern French)
• FR 371 Love's Fatal Triangle: Arthurian Literature in French (in Modern French)

Service: College Activities (Representative assignments)

• Coordinating Supervisor of Italian language courses; Convenor of Italian Section
• Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Committee (Fall 2005- )
• Medieval Studies Minor Coordinating Committee (Fall 2005- )
• Italian Studies Minor, Coordinator (2009- )
  
• Twenty-First Language Literature and Society Colloquium, March 28-29, 2007: From Oral to Visual and Back. The Epic: Past, Present and Future
• Senator for Dept. of Modern Langs. and Lits (2008-2011)
  

Research

Recent Articles

1. “Le merveilleux destin de Guibourc d'Orange.” In Epic Studies: Acts of the Seventeenth International Congress of the Société Rencesvals for the Study of Romance Epic. Eds. Anne Berthelot et al. Spec. issue Olifant n.s. 25, no. 1-2 (2006): 321-37. (Published Jan. 2009.)
2.   “La machine infernale : les merveilles mécaniques dans la chanson de geste.” In Por s’onor croistre. Mélanges de langue et de littérature médiévales offerts à Pierre Kunstmann, ed. Yvan Lepage et Christian Milat. Voix savantes 30. Ottawa: Éditions David, 2008. 103-20.
3.  “(Mis)Quoting Dante: Early Epic Intertextuality in Huon d'Auvergne.” Neophilologus 92 (2008): 577-99.
4.  “Crusade as Metaphor: Variations on an Epic Theme in Huon d’Auvergne.” In Epic and Crusade: Proceedings of the Colloquium of the Société Rencesvals British Branch held at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, 27-28 March 2004. Editors Philip E. Bennett, Anne Elizabeth Cobby and Jane E. Everson. British Rencesvals Publications 4. Edinburgh: Société Rencesvals British Branch, 2006. 65-87.
5. “Ynide and Charles Martel, Turin Biblioteca Nazionale N.III.19, folios 72^R-89^R.” Medioevo Romanzo 29 (2005): 433-54; 31 (2007): 70-110.
6. “Can an Epic Woman be Funny? Humor and the Female Protagonist in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Epic.” Humor 19 (2006): 157-78.
7. “Una lettera inedita di Pio Rajna, seguita da una breve nota di Gaston Paris alla Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile di Padova a proposito di Huon d’Auvergne.” Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 122 (2006): 184-89.
8. “Nida and Carlo Martello: The Padua Manuscript of Huon d'Auvergne (Ms. 32 of the Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile, 45R-49V).” Olifant 23 (2004): 65-114.
9. “Chrétien de Troyes comme sous-texte de Huon d'Auvergne?” In Les Chansons de geste. Actes du XVIe Congrès International de la Société Rencesvals, pour l'Étude des Épopées Romanes. Granada, 21-25 juillet 2003. Ed. Carlos Alvar y Juan Paredes. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2005. 649-63.
10. “Dirige gressus meos: The Dialectic of Obedience in Huon d'Auvergne.” Neophilologus 88 (2004): 19-32.

Selected Book Reviews

1. Psaki, F. Regina, ed. and trans., Italian Literature, 2: Tristan Riccardiano. (Arthurian Archives, 12.) Woodbridge, Eng., and Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2006. Speculum 83 (2008): 236-37.
2.   Braet, Herman, Guido Latré, and Werner Verbeke, eds. Risus Mediaevalis: Laughter in Medieval Literature and Art. Medaevalia Lovaniensia, Series I, Studia 30. Leuven University Press, 2003. Humor 20 (2007): 446-49.
3.   Furlati, Sara, ed. I Cantari del Danese. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2003. Olifant 24 (2005): 61-67.
4.   Fontes Barrato, Anna, ed. De qui, de quoi se moque-t-on? Cahiers de la Renaissance italienne 5. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004. Annali d’italianistica 24 (2006): 393-95.
5.   Everson, Jane E. The Italian Romance Epic in the Age of Humanism. The Matter of Italy and the World of Rome. Oxford: UP, 2002. Olifant 23 (2004): 119-24.
6.   Ross, Charles Stanley, trans. Publius Papinus Statius. The Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes. Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004. Forum Italicum 39 (2005): 258-60.
7.   Allaire, Gloria, ed. and trans. Il Tristano panciatichiano. Arthurian Archives VIII. Italian Literature I. Cambridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2002.Italica 80 (2003): 434-36.
8.   DiNinni, Franca, ed. Niccolò da Verona: Opere: Pharsale, Continuazione dell'Entrée d'Espagne, Passion. Venice: Marsilio, 1992. Olifant 21 (1996-97): 145-51.
9.   Tusiani, Joseph, trans. Morgante: The Epic Adventures of Orlando and His Giant Friend Morgante. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998. Forum Italicum 34 (2000): 287-93.
10.   Gregory, Heather, ed. Selected Letters of Alessandra Strozzi. Bilingual Edition. Biblioteca italiana 9. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1997. Annali d'Italianistica 19 (1999): 409-11.

Book-length publications

1. ‘La Geste Francor’: Chansons de geste of Ms. Marc. Fr. XIII (=256). Edition with Glossary, Introduction and Notes. 2 vols. ISBN: 978-0-86698-396-9 / MR 348; MRTS,  Arizona State University, P.O. Box 874402, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402.
2. Epic Studies: Acts of the Seventeenth International Congress of the Société Rencesvals for the Study of Romance Epic, Storrs, CT. (July 2006). Co-editor with Anne Berthelot (U. of Ct., Storrs), et. al. Special issue of Olifant n.s. 25.1-2 (2006; published Jan. 2009). Order copies while available: click here.
   
3. Approaches to Teaching the Song of Roland. Ed. with William W. Kibler. NY: MLA, 2006.
4. Franco-Italian and Italian Romance Epic. Spec. volume of  Olifant 21, 1-2 (Fall 1996-Summer 1997; published 2001) .Co-edited with Nancy Bradley-Cromey.
5. The Foreign Language Classroom: Bridging Theory and Practice. Ed. and introduction with Margaret Austin Haggstrom and Joseph A. Wieczorek. NY: Garland Education Series, 1995.
6. Dante: Summa Medievalis, papers of March 1988 Symposium held at SUNY, Stony Brook. Ed. and introduction with Charles Franco. NY: Filibrary, 1995.
7. Ludovico Ariosto. Five Cantos. Trans. Garland Library of World Literature in Translation 3. NY: Garland, 1992. Introduction, now on line.
   

Other Publications

• “Women, Medieval: Italian Epic.” In Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages). Ed. Margaret C. Schaus, Thomas Izbicki, and Susan Mosher Stuard. NY: Routledge, 2006. 252-54.
  
• AAceste,@ AAdolfo,@ ACamillus,@ AGherardo da Camino,@ ACato the Elder,@ ACurius,@ AEacus,@ AFrederick II of Aragon,@ AGaramantes,@ AGhisolabella,@ Laomedonte,@ ALelius,@ ALucilius,@ AManlius,@ ANuma Pompilius,@ Pythagoras,@ ARegulus,@ AManfredi da Vico.@ In Dante Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Lansing. NY: Garland Press, 2000.

Presentations at scholarly conferences

1. April 2010, “Authority and Origins in the Franco-Italian Epic: The Vocabulary of Power.” The Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the RSA
   Venice, Italy (Renaissance Society of America).
   
2. July 2009, “Avatars de Guibourc 2: Métamorphose d'Orable à Tiborga.” XVIIIe Congrès de la Société Rencesvals, Geneva, Switzerland.
   
3. May 2009, “Birds, Beds and Broads: The Degeneration of an Epic Motif.” International Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI.
4. March 22, 2008, “The Importance of the Franco-Italian Romance Epic.”  Romance and Epic Seminar, The Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago.
5. March 7, 2008, “La tradition turpinienne et l'Italie.” Le Livre de saint Jacques et la tradition turpinienne: nouvelle perspectives, Université Lyon-2, France.
   
6. November 17, 2007, “Language Placement Examination in Italian for Entering College Students.” American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) / American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI), San Antonio, TX.
7. October 13, 2007, “Literary Afterlives in Huon d'Auvergne: 'The Art of [Dantean] Citation'.” American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI), Washington, DC. 
8. December 2005, “Huon d’Auvergne and his Epic Forebears in Hell: Protagonists of French chansons de geste in Italy.” MLA, Washington, DC.
9. May 2005, “Epic Genre Relations: Lyric Quotations in the Chanson de Geste and its Prolongements.” International Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI.
10. April 2005, “Epic Irony before Ariosto: Franco-Italian in its Subtler Moments.” American Association of Italian Studies, Chapel Hill, NC.

Online Projects

1. FIOLA (Franco-Italian On-Line Archive)
2. Medieval Studies Minor, Loyola College in Maryland
3. Italian Studies, Loyola College in Maryland
   
4. ORB (On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies)
5. ARLIMA, contributor: Archives de littérature du moyen âge
   

Memberships in Academic Societies

• AAIS (American Association of Italian Studies)
• AATF (American Association of Teachers of French)
• AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian)
• Dante Society of America
• ICLS-NAB (International Courtly Literature Society, North American Branch)
• International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS)
• MLA (Modern Language Association)
• Medieval Academy of America
  
• Renaissance Society of America
  
• Société Rencesvals (Présidente, Bureau International)

Recent Awards

Summer Research Grant, Loyola College in Maryland, Summer 2009, Summer 2008.
Fulbright Research Grant, Université Lumière Lyon-2, France, September-December 2004.
Full-year sabbatical, Loyola College in Maryland, 2004-2005.

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