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Lori J. Walters (Ph.D. Princeton) specializes in medieval literature.
She is the author of over 70 publications,
which deal with three main subjects: Christine de Pizan, Medieval
Romance, and the allegorical Romance of the Rose. From May 2004
to March 2005, she gave public lectures at the Universities
of Cambridge and Oxford in England, the University of St.-Quentin-en-Yvelines
in France, and the Universities of Pittsburgh and Florida in
the United States.
Professor Walters speaks about her research:
I am interested in the intersection of literature, royal ideology,
and the process of bookmaking from the twelfth to the fifteenth
centuries. I focus upon female figures, whether the queen, the
courtly lady, or the female writer. My current book-length project
concerns the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan and
her relationship with two male authorities, the fifth-century
Church Father Augustine and Jean Gerson, the leading theologian
and preacher of Christine’s time. I envision writing a
future study centered upon texts and manuscript collections
prepared for the twelfth-century countess Marie de Champagne.
Here is a recent interview
with Dr. Walters in which she discusses her current research
project at greater length.
Dr. Walters’ research typically combines close textual
analysis with a consideration of the text’s manuscript
context. She obtained a background in paleography and codicology
at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Her current projects
often take her back to the Salle des manuscrits of the Bibliothèque
nationale where she did the research for her doctoral dissertation.
Dr. Walters contributed to the establishment of the History
of Text Technologies Research Cluster (HOTT) that is part of
the FSU Pathways to Excellence initiative. Information on HOTT
can be found at this site.
Professor Walters speaks about the Ph.D. program in French:
Two of my students, Anne Ortiz and Sandra Boyer, have recently
received scholarships to attend the summer “stage de civilization
médiévale” held at the Université
de Poitiers. They are photographed here
at a stopover at Menton on their way to Poitiers. The newspaper
La Nouvelle République interviewed Anne about her experience
studying in the summer program at Poitiers ( interview
).
Anne is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Florida State University
who obtained an MA at the University of South Florida. Her dissertation
deals with Christine de Pizan’s Advision-Cristine as a
mirror for France’s queen Ysabeau de Bavière. Sandra
came to FSU after completing an MA thesis at Middlebury College
on Gaston Bachelard and the legend of Tristan and Iseut. A student
who worked as my Research Assistant in Spring 2004, Ivy Dyckman,
has found a position teaching at William and Mary College while
completing her dissertation on fairytale motifs in the novels
of the Marquis de Sade (who also wrote a biography of Ysabeau
which Ivy studies as an independent project).
Courses Taught:
Dissertations directed by Dr. Walters, and placement
of her students:
- "Parody and Renewal in the Vengeance Raguidel." Geert
Steven Pallemans, Tenured Professor and Chair, Foreign Languages
and Literatures Department, Southern Illinois University at
Edwardsville.
- "The Chastoiement and the Decameron: Rhetorical Examples
of Vernacularization." Marco David Roman, Tenured Full
Professor, Languages Department, The University of Central
Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma.
- "La Communauté des Femmes dans Le Livre des Trois Vertus
de Christine de Pizan." Xiangyun Zhang, Tenured Associate
Professor and Chair, Foreign Languages Department, Emory and
Henry College, Emory, Virginia.
- "Le Cuer d'Amours Espris de René d'Anjou comme réécriture
du Roman de la Rose et de La Queste del Sang Graal: De la
quête d'amour à une redéfinition du moi." Olivia Marancy-Ferrer,
Ph.D.
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