Elizabeth Kinne
Associate Professor
- Department: Comparative Literature and English
- Office:G-117
- Office Hours:By appointment
Professor Kinne has been living, studying, and teaching in France for over twelve years, her undergraduate and graduate work including many transatlantic journeys. Having focused on romance languages as an undergraduate, she specialized in French and English medieval literature in graduate school and received a dual PhD in French and Women鈥檚 Studies from The Pennsylvania State University in Spring 2013. Her dissertation, 鈥淧ersuading the Polity: Authority, Marriage, and Politics in Late-Medieval France鈥� studies the interrelatedness of gender and politics in conduct literature for women during the Hundred Years鈥� War. She has been at 91吃瓜网since 2010 where her writing and literature courses often discuss gender, sexuality, and the construction of knowledge.聽 She has taught French language and literature in the United States and English language and literature at several French institutions.
Her medieval research interests include the Old French fabliaux, Arthurian literature, conduct literature and women鈥檚 writing. As a gender scholar, she explores questions concerning women in the military. She also provides translating, interpreting, research, and consulting services for French government agencies.
Education/Degrees
- PhD in French and Women's Studies, The Pennsylvania State University
Publications
- 鈥烲es 茅crits didactiques pour femmes et le double discours du d茅sir au Moyen Age鈥� In CLIO, Histoire, Femmes et Soci茅t茅s. Erotiques. 31/2010. pp. 135-152.
- 鈥焀aiting for Gauvain: Lessons in Courtesy in L鈥櫭倀re p茅rilleux鈥� Arthuriana. A聽 Lagniappe Festschrift in honor of Norris J. Lacy, 18.2 (Summer 2008), pp. 55-68.
- 鈥淩hetorical Reasoning, Authority, and the Impossible Interlocutor in Le Vilain qui conquist paradis par plait鈥� in Kristin L. Burr, John F. Moran and Norris J. Lacy (ed.), The Old French Fabliaux: Essays on Comedy and Context., North Carolina and London: McFarland, 2007, pp. 55-68.
Conferences & Lectures
- Participant in a round table 鈥淕uerre et Paix: Luttes de Femmes鈥� Rencontre Femmes d鈥檋istoire, February, 2013, Le Mans.
- 鈥淎 Woman at War: Caxton鈥檚 Translation of Christine de Pizan鈥檚 The Boke of Fayttes of Armes and of Chyvalrye鈥� Conf茅rence du Centre d鈥橢tudes M茅di茅vales Anglaise 2009, le 26-27 mars, 2009, Universit茅 de Paris IV, Sorbonne.
- 鈥烡e 芦 l鈥檈stat 禄 脿 l鈥檃lt茅rit茅: Ecrits sur le mariage 脿 la fin du Moyen Age鈥� S茅minaire M1 Histoire du Genre sous la direction de Violaine Sebillotte-Cuchet et Anne Hugon, Universit茅 de Paris Sorbonne I, January 19, 2009.
- 鈥烼he Political Orthodoxy of Eustache Deschamps鈥� 16th International Medieval Congress, July 13-19, 2009, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds.
- 鈥烲ocating Folly: Eustache Deschamps鈥檚 Miroir de mariage and the Fate of a Nation鈥�, 鈥烲ocating Gender,鈥� Gender and Medieval Studies Conference 2009, January 8-10, 2009, King鈥檚 College, London.
- 鈥烾n dr么le de m茅nage: Le M茅nagier de Paris and Problems of Social Identity in Fourteenth-Century France鈥� 41st Annual International Medieval Congress, May 4-7, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI.
- 鈥烣ertility and Family Values in Chr茅tien de Troyes鈥檚 Perceval ou Le Conte du Graal鈥� 39th Annual International Medieval Congress, May 6-9, University of Western Michigan, Kalmazoo, MI.
- 鈥烣ame and the Perils of Chivalry in Boccaccio鈥檚 Teseida delle Nozze d鈥橢milia鈥�, 鈥烲iterature, Film and War鈥� 15th Annual Conference of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Spring 2004, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.
- 鈥烝 Twist of the Tongue, a Turn of Fortunes: the Art of Rhetoric in the Old French Fabliaux鈥�, 鈥烼ropologies鈥� Conference of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Spring 2003, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.