Dr. Linda Rouillard
Education:
Ph.D., August 1996, University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Dissertation: Incest, Marriage and Penance in Philippe de Rémi's LaManekine
Director: Dr. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
M.A.T. (Master of Arts in Teaching) in French, May 1985, University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
B.A. in French and Music, May 1983, University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
Current Position:
Professor of French
Department of World Languages and Cultures
University of Toledo
Spring 2016 - Present
Full Membership on Graduate Faculty through 2019
Associate Professor of French
Department of World Languages and Cultures
University of Toledo
Spring 2006 - Spring 2016
Full Membership on Graduate Faculty through 2019
Assistant Professor of French
Department of World Languages and Cultures
University of Toledo
Aug. 2001 - 2006
Previous Positions:
Chair, Department of World Languages and Cultures, The University of Toledo, 2018-2022.
Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indians, 1998-2001.
Assistant Professor of French, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, 1997-1998.
Visiting Assistant Professor of French, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1996-1997.
Publications:
Forthcoming book: Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance (contract signed with Palgrave McMillen)
"Counseling Couples: Christine de Pizan's Advice to Marguerite de Bourgogne and Louis de Guyenne." Medieval Perspectives, vol. 27 (2012). 155-172.
“The Dramas of Ourika and Joseph de Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges,” European Romantic Review. 22.1 (2011), 19-34.
“’Faux semblant ou faire semblant?’ Christine de Pizan and Virtuous Artifice,” Forum for Modern Language Studies, Vol. 46, no. I (Dec. 2009), 16-28.
“Complicit Victims in Les Anciens Canadiens and Le Mulâtre,” French Review, April 2007, 1095-1107.
“Speech Acts in the First Prose Erec.” Mediaevalia, vol. 25, no. 1, 2004, 85-106 .
“The Black Galatea: Claire de Duras’ Ourika.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 32, nos. 3&4, Spring-Summer 2004, 207-222.
“Warrior Relationships with God: From Roland to the Chevalier au Barisel.” Medieval Perspectives, 17.1 (Spring 2004), 129-150.
“Raping the Rose, Sixteenth-Century Style: Modernizing the Medieval in Day Two of Le Printemps by Jacques Yver.” Forum for Modern Language Studies, vol. xxxix, no. 1, 2003, pp. 15-26.
“Playing with Romance: A Fourteenth-Century Dramatic Adaptation of La Manekine.” Le Moyen Français, vol. 48, 2001, pp. 77-92.
“Marriage and Mutilation in La Manekine.” Romance Language Annual X (2001), 99-104.
“You can lead a Lady to water, but can you make her drink? Rings of Rhetoric in Jean Renart’s Lai de l’ombre.” Chimères, vol. XXV, no. 1, Fall 1998, pp. 59-70.
“Rape and Marriage in Richars li biaus,” Medieval Perspectives, vol. xiii, Aug. 1998, pp. 121-135.
Dictionary Entries
“Church and Clergy” in Handbook of Medieval Culture: Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages, ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter. 2015.
“André Grabar,” for Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter. October 2010.
“Denis de Rougemont,” for Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter. 2010.
“Laura Hibbard,” for Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter. 2010.
“Issoudun,” and “Fréjus” in Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, eds. William Kibler and Grover Zinn. New York: Garland. 1995.
Book Reviews:
Les femmes, la culture et les arts en Europe entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, by Cynthia J. Brown and Anne-Marie Legaré, editors. Forthcoming in Sixteenth Century Journal.
Approaches to Teaching the Works of François Rabelais, Todd W. Reeser and Floyd Gray, eds., NY: MLA, 2011. Forthcoming in Sixteenth Century Journal.
Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France, Kathleen Welman. New Haven: Yale, 2013. Sixteenth Century Journal, 45 (Fall 2014), pp. 845-846.
La Manequine. Jean Wauquelin. Ed. Maria Colombo Timelli. Paris: Editions Classiques Garnier, 2010. Speculum 87 (January 2012), 288-289.
Studies in Early Modern France, Vol. 14: Obscenity. Eds. Anne Birberick and Russell J. Ganim. Guest ed. Hugh G.A. Roberts. Charlottesville, Virginia: Rookwood Press. 2010. Sixteenth Century Journal.
French Ceremonial Entries in the Sixteenth Century: Event, Image, Text. Nicolas Russell and Hélène Visentin, eds. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007. Sixteenth Century Journal 41 (2010), 541-542.
La plantation colonial esclavagiste, XVIIe-XIXe siècles. Ed. Danielle Gégot. Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. 2008. Sixteenth Century Journal 41 (2010), 875-877.
Émotions médiévales (Critique 716-717), 2007. ISBN 978-2-7073-1989-0. Mediaevistik 22 (2009), 247-248.
Abelard and Heloise, Constant Mews. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [3 pages] The Medieval Review, November 15, 2006. [on-line, open-access]
Marguerite de Valois: La Reine Margot, Eliane Viennot. Paris: Editions Perrin. 2005 and La Reine Margot, Julianne Pidduck. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. 2005. Sixteenth-Century Journal 38 (2007), 581-583.
Religious Differences in France: Past and Present. Edited by Kathleen Perry Long. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2006. Sixteenth-Century Journal 38 (2007), 901-902.
Early Modern Images of Childbirth. Lianne McTavish. Ashgate. Sixteenth-Century Journal 37 (2006), 1089-91.
The Inverted Mirror: Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 1898-1914. Michael E. Nolan. New York: Berghahn Books: 2005. French Review, 80 (April 2007).
Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada: A question of Ethics. Marie Carrière. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Québec Studies
Accounting for Taste:The Triumph of French Cuisine. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. French Review 78 (May 2005), 1264-1265.
Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures: Critical Essays. Kamal Salhi, ed. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. 2003. Nouvelles Etudes Francophones 19.2 (Fall 2004).
Le Jardin et la Nature: Ordre et variété dans la littérature de la Renaissance, Danièle Duport. Geneva: Droz, 2002. Sixteenth Century Journal, 34 (2003), 1188-1190.
Incest and the Medieval Imagination, Elizabeth Archibald. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. The Medieval Review, January 13, 2003. [on-line, open-access]
Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction, Valeria Finucci and Stephen Brownlee, eds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. The Medieval Review (January 7, 2003). [on-line, open-access]
Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in Renaissance France, Floyd Gray. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Sixteenth Century Journal 32 (2001), 1143-1145.
Fonder les Savoirs, Fonder les Pouvoirs, De Courcelles, Dominique, ed. Paris: Ecole des Chartres, 2000. Sixteenth Century Journal 32 (2001), 1186-1188.
Les Jardins qui sentent le sauvage: Ronsard et la Poétique du Paysage, Danièle Duport. Geneva: Droz, 2000. Sixteenth-Century Journal 32 (2001), 543-545.
Etudes Rabelaisiennes, vol. 35, Geneva: Droz, 1998. Sixteenth-Century Journal 31 (2000), 1159-1161.
Conference Presentations (abstracts available upon request):
May 2019: “Images of Clerical Greed and Petty Divinities in Selected Miracle Plays,” 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 9-12, 2019), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
May 2018: “The Sin that Stinks to High Heaven: Disbelief in Gautier de Coinci’s Marian Miracles,” 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 10-13, 2018), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
June 2016: : “The Great GASB” to AAUP National Conference (Washington, D.C., with Thomas Atwood
May 2016: “Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Counterfeit men in three medieval French tales”51st International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 12-15, 2016), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Nov. 13, 2015, “Gender-Bending Yde et Olive and the Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville, “ Midwest Modern Language Association, Columbus, Ohio.
June, 2015, AAUP National Conference: “The Role of Private Foundations in U.S. Higher Education,” Washington, D.C.
May 14, 2015: “Incest threatened, Incest Realized,” Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May, 2015), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
April 17, 2015 OFLA, Sandusky, Ohio, part of panel presentation “In Languages We Mean Business,” with Drs. Semaan, Hara, Thompson-Casado
November 14, 2014: conference paper presented at Midwest Modern Language Association, “The Body as Urban Metaphor in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,” Dearborn, Michigan
May 8-11, 2014, “Woman and Words in Philippe de Rémi’s La Manekine,” 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-11, 2014), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
April 10-12, 2014, “Outsourcing Higher Ed, including Teacher Assessments,” Ohio Foreign Language Association Meeting,Polaris Hilton, Columbus, Ohio.
July 2013: “Fragmented Beauty: Male and Female in Three Medieval Romances,” International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
June 2013: “Outsourcing Certification and Licensure,” as part of panel on Privatization of the Curriculum, with Drs. Mary Kich and Charlie Parrish, AAUP National Conference, Washington DC.
May 2013: “Pain and Suffering in Medieval French Texts,” Forth-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
April 2013: Panelist for “Performance Metrics, Assessments as Components of Collective Bargaining Agreements,” Nation Council on Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and Professions, New York, New York
October 2012: “Medieval Oaths and Debts,” Fifty-fourth Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati.
May 2012: “Dolor et Parole: Mutilation in La Manekine.” Forty-Seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Sept. 2010: "Counseling Couples: Christine de Pizan's Advice to Marguerite de Bourgogne and Louis de Guyenne." Southeastern Medieval Association, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.
May, 2009: "Le mot juste and Christine de Pizan", Forty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
May 2008: “ Christine de Pizan Makes Peace with Fin’amor Rhetoric.” Forty-third International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.
November 2007: “Decapitulation and Recapitulation in the Medieval Myth of St. Dymphna,” Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland Ohio.
March 2007: “ Applying Business Concepts and Practices to Foreign Language Learning,” with Drs. Stoudt and Thompson-Casado. OFLA: Ohio Foreign Language Association.
May 2006: “Virtuous Artifice: Concealing and Revealing Rhetorical Deceptions in Christine de Pizan’s Treasury of the City of Ladies.” Forty-first International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.
March 2006: “Using the Web to teach French Advertising.” Ohio Foreign Language Association, with Drs. Stoudt and Thompson-Casado.
May 2005: “Lenten Rituals in La Manekine.” Fortieth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.
Nov. 2004 “Sexual Politics in Le Sexe des Etoiles: A New Twist on an Old Metaphor.” ACQS, Quebec City, Quebec.
May 2004: “Complicit Victims in Les Anciens Canadiens and Le Mulâtre.” Cincinnati Romance Language Conference, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 2004: “Love and Looks: Ille et Galeron and Caradoc.” Thirty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.
July 2003: “Women Who Fight Back: Episodes of Rape in Three Thirteenth-Century French Narratives.” International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
May 2003: “Beauty and the Eye of the Beholder in Ille et Galeron.” Thirty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.
Oct. 2002: “Marketing Strategies Featuring Québécois Historical Icons.” MidWest Association for Canadian Studies, East Lansing, Michigan.
July 2002: “The Evolution of Marriage and Penance in Two Romances of Philippe de Rémi: La Manekine and Jehan et Blonde.” International Medieval Conference, July 2002, University of Leeds, UK.
May 2002: “The Regurgitation Motif in La Manekine.” Thirty-Seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.
March 2002: “Teaching Vocabulary for Business French.” OFLA (Ohio Foreign Language Association), Columbus, Ohio.
Oct. 2001: “Medieval Male Piety: From Roland to Le Chevalier au Barisel.” SEMA (Southeastern Medieval Association), New Orleans, Louisiana.
July 2001: “Victimized Sisters, Murderous Brothers: Dysfunctional Families in the Thirteenth-Century Prose Erec.” International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
May 2001: “Keeping the Faith: La Manekine as a Re-Reading of The Book of Ste. Foy.” 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
October 2000: “Marriage and Mutilation in La Manekine.” Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
November 1999: “The Play’s the Thing: A Fourteenth-Century Theatrical Rendition of La Manekine.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
October 1999: “Raping the Rose, Sixteenth-Century Style: Possible Sources for Day Two of Le Printemps d’Yver.” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.
October 1999: “Reading the Reader: Jean Wauquelin’s Prose Rendition of La Manekine.” Southeastern Medieval Association, Knoxville, Tennessee.
June 1999: “Oral testing with computers,” with Dr. Dick House. IALL, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
May 1999: “Aristocratic and Ecclesiastical Tensions: A Dialogue between Literary Voices and Sculptural Hands.” 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
July 1998: "The Black Galatea: Mme de Duras' Ourika." International Society for the Classical Tradition, University of Tuebingen, Germany.
May 1998: "Teaching the Three R's: Rape, Revenge and Reprieve in Florence de Rome." 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Sept. 1997: "Rape and Marriage in Richars li biaus." Southeastern Medieval Association, co-sponsored by Middle Tennessee State University and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
May 1997: "Secularized Sacraments: Marriage and Penance in Philippe de Rémi's Jehan et Blonde." 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Sept. 1996: "Against Their Will: Medieval Protagonists' Responses to Violence." Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
April 1996: "Identity and Inheritance in the Roman de Silence." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.
Oct. 1995: "Throwing Down the Gauntlet: The Empty Glove Reliquary in Philippe de Rémi's La Manekine." Southeastern Medieval Association, Charleston, South Carolina.
April 1995: "Heroic Virgins and Saintly Wives in La Manekine." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.
Feb. 1995: "Children Guiding Parents in La Manekine." Illinois Medieval Association. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois.
Sept. 1994: "Keeping Body and Soul Together: Woman's Place in La Manekine." Southeastern Medieval Association, Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia.
May 1994: "The Hand of Forgiveness in La Manekine." 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
May 1994: "And they lived happily ever after...Joïe and Marriage in La Manekine."
Cincinnati Romance Language Conference, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 1993: "Stepping out from the Shadows: Rhetoric in Jean Renart's Lai de l'Ombre." 28th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Sept. 1992: "The Role of Exempla in the Roman de la Poire." Southeastern Medieval Association, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Collaborative Projects:
“Love and Death through the Ages: A Multi-Media Concert,” with Dr. Thomas Evans (Kalamazoo College), 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1999.
Certificates:
April 2006: Certificate of Achievement, Center for Applied Linguistics, certified as scorer for the French Speaking Test according to ACTFL Speaking Proficiency Guidelines.
January 2013: Certified as Tester and Rater of Oral Proficiency Interview Testing, ACTFL
Grants and Awards:
- Kohler Travel Grant, Spring 2011, $1 000 for travel to Spain to attend a USAC course.
- FIDA award, Spring 2011, to attend USAC in Bilbao, Spain.
- Students First Award, The University of Toledo, Fall 2007
- CTL Grant, Spring 2005, $200 for purchase of SOPI training kit.
- CTL Grant, Spring 2004, $200 for purchase of videos for Business French Course.
- Kohler Travel Grant, Spring 2002, $1 000 for travel in France to study potential sites for study abroad programs with a business component and internships.
- CIBER $200 scholarship to attend CIBER workshop in Memphis, Tennessee, February 2002.
- NEH Summer Seminar, “Gothic in the Ile-de-France,” June-July 1998, Paris, France; Dr. Stephen Murray, Columbia University, director
- Ameritech Grant, Summer 2000: Digital Video Materials to Teach Elementary French Vocabulary.
- Lilly Mini-Grant, Summer 1999: Developing Digital Québécois Materials for the Intermediate Classroom.
Professional Development:
- Medieval Musical Notation Bootcamp, Aug. 5-9, 2019, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
- ACTFL Oral Proficiency Workshop, July 8-11, 2010, Middlebury College, Vermont.
- Sabbatical, fall and spring 2008-2009.
- CIBER, Ohio State University, October, 2003.
- CIBER, University of Memphis, February, 2002.
- Research Associate, Humanities Institute, University of Toledo, 2001-2002; 2002-2003.
Courses taught:
1080 Culture and Commerce in the French-Speaking World
1090 Culture and Commerce in the French-Speaking World
1110, 1120, 2140, 2150: elementary and intermediate French language sequence
3010 Composition and Conversation
3020 Comp and Con WAC
3170 French for Business
3410 Civilization
3210 Survey of French Literature I
4010/5010 Stylistics and Syntax
4070/5070 French translation
4980 Francophone Literature
4980/5980 Issues of Race, Gender and Class in Francophone Literature
4980/5980 Québécois Literature
4980/5980 The Epistolary Novel
5310 Medieval Studies
5980 Issues in Colonialism
ARS1000 First-year Course
French/ German 4160/5160/ Spanish 4120/ 5120 Teaching Colloquium
Coordination
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French 1110-2150
Acting Chair: Fall 2010
Associations
Research Associate, Humanities Institute, 2002-2003
Research Associate, Humanities Institute, 2001-2002
Committees (Selected):
Department Personnel Committee, Foreign Languages
Dept. Retention and Recruitment Committee
Dept. Retention and Recruitment Committee
Foreign Language Day 2002 to 2010
CAL Council Member
LLSS Council Vice-Chair, 2015 – Spring 2017
Department Personnel Committee for Disability Studies Program
LLSS Council Curriculum Committee
LLSS Council
Arts and Sciences Council, Chair, 2010-2011
Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee
Faculty Senate
Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee, 2015-2017
Faculty Senate Executive Committee
President, Faculty Senate, 2013-2014; 2018-2019
Committee on Committees, Chair, 2012-2013; 2017-2018
Finance and Strategy Committee, 2010-present
Graduate Council Member, 2010
Graduate Council Curriculum, 2011
University Committee on Academic Personnel, Substitute 2015
University Council, 2013-2014
University Council Executive Committee, 2013-2014
Executive Board, UT-AAUP, Spring 2011-2018