Michelle Bolduc, Assistant Professor

Degree:
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2000.

Current Research Interests:
Medieval French and Occitan Literature and Manuscript Contexts
Medieval Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Theory
Modern Rhetoric and Philosophy

Current Teaching Interests:
Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Culture
Classical and Medieval Theories of Gender and Sexuality
Performance, Poetics, and Rhetorical Theory

Other Relevant Activities:
Program Coordinator, Comparative Literature

Recent Publications:
The Medieval Poetics of Contraries. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006.

"The Breviari d'Amor: Rhetoric and Preaching in Thirteenth-Century Languedoc," Rhetorica 24:4 (2006): 403-425.

"Fauvel's Wayward Wives," Medievalia et Humanistica 32 (2006): 43-62.

"A Theological Defense of Courtly Love: Matfre Ermengaud's Breviari d'Amor," Tenso, Bulletin de la société Guilhem IX 20:2 (2005): 26-48.

"Transgressive Troubadours and Lawless Lovers? Matfre Ermengaud's Breviari d'Amor as a courtly apologia," in Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, edited by Albrecht A. Classen, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies vol. 278. Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 2004. 65-83.

"From vita contemplativa to vita activa: The Rhetorical Turn of Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca." Advances in the History of Rhetoric, ed. Robert Gaines. Vol. 7. College Park, MD: American Society for the History of Rhetoric, 2004. 65-86 (with David Frank).

"The Poetics of Authorship and Vernacular Religious Devotion," in The Varieties of Devotion in the Middle Ages, edited by Susan Karant-Nunn. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, vol. 7. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2003. 125-143.

"First Philosophy and Regressive Philosophies: Translation and Commentary," Philosophy and Rhetoric, vol. 36, no. 3 (2003): 177-207 (with David Frank).

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