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| Helen Solterer, Professor, French Studies
- Contact Info:
| Office Location: | 217B Languages Building | | Office Phone: | (919) 660-3118, (919) 660-3138 | | Email Address: |   | Teaching (Spring 2012):
- FRENCH 126.01, FREE SPEECH: FRANCE-USA
Synopsis
- Languages 305, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
- ROMST 150.01, IMAGINING EUROPE:CULT/LANG/POL
Synopsis
- Old Chem 025, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
- Office Hours:
- Wednesday: 5-6 pm
or by appt.
- Education:
| PhD | University of Toronto | 1986 |
| Boursière, Ambassade de France, | Université de Paris VII | 1983 |
| Masters of Art | University of Toronto | 1981 |
| Bachelor of Arts | Georgetown University | 1978 |
| Year of Study | University College of Dublin | 1978 |
- Specialties:
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French
Early Modern
European Studies
Performance Studies
Gender Studies, Feminism, Women Studies, Queer Studies
- Research Interests:
Pre-modern French Literature and Culture;
Twentieth-Century European Cultural History; Performance Studies; Gender Studies. Research Interests include questions of fiction, memory, history; political discourse -- Christine de Pizan, Alain Chartier, François Villon; and contemporary experimental theater.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
- Julie Singer
- Brooke Heidenreich Findley
- Daniel De Cillis
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Medieval Roles in Modern Times: Theater and the Battle for the French Republic
(February, 2010),
pp. 271 pages, 40 figures, The Pennsylvania State University Press
- H. Solterer, Theatre and Theatricality,
in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature
(2008),
pp. 181-194, Cambridge University Press
- H. Solterer, Making Names, Breaking Lives: Women & Injurious Language,
in Cultural Performances in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Nancy Freeman, edited by Eglal Doss-Quinby, Robert Krueger, E. Jane Burns
(2007),
pp. 207-21, Boydell & Brewer
- Helen Solterer, Gustave Cohen at Pont-Holyoke: The Drama of Belonging to France, edited by Christopher Benfey, Karen Remmler,
Artists, Intellectuals, and World War II
(2006),
pp. 145-61, University of Massachusetts Press
- Fiction versus Defamation: The Quarrel over the Romance of the Rose,
The Medieval History Journal, vol. 2 no. 1
(1999),
pp. 111-141
- Performer le passé,
in Paul Zumthor ou l’invention permanente. Critique, histoire, poésie, edited by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Christopher Lucken
(1998),
pp. 117-159, Droz
- co-authored with E. Jane Burns, Sarah Kay, and Roberta L. Krueger, Feminism and the Discipline of Old French Studies: "Une Bele Disjointure",
in Medievalism in a Modernist Temper, edited by R. Howard Bloch, Stephen G. Nichols
(1995),
pp. 225-266, Johns Hopkins University Press
- The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture
(September, 1995), University of California Press (co-awarded The Modern Language Association Scaglione Prize, 1995.)
- Conferences Organized
- "Théâtre et Résistance: Moussa Abadi”, June 2009
Helen Solterer studied in Washington, Paris, Dublin, and Toronto where she received her PhD. Her research and teaching focus on pre-modern vernacular literature and culture, and its interplay with twentieth-century and contemporary thought. Her last book, Medieval Roles for Modern Times: Theater and the Battle for the French Republic [Penn State Press 2010] offers an experimental model in such *histoire croisée,* in the form of a pictorial essay exploring the politics and aesthetics of reviving the earliest theater for the generations of two World Wars. A French adaptation, “Un Moyen Âge républicain,” is forthcoming. Currently she is at work on two book projects: the first on the afterlives of pre-modern fiction; the second inquiring into the legacy of hate speech – blasphemy and sedition. Her first book which explored the question of defamation, The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture (California, 1995), won the MLA Scaglione Prize. A third area of her work involves performance – history and practice. It led to her co-organizing a workshop at the Théâtre Ouvert, Paris, “Théâtre et Résistance -- Dépersonnalisation et Identité: Odette Rosenstock & Moussa Abadi,” in June 2009. After hours, she pursues occasional writing; on teaching in the digital press, and on European culture. |
