Chair,
Department of French and Italian
Associate
Professor of French
Affiliate
of the Program in Film Studies
Department
of French and Italian
Box
6312, Station B
Vanderbilt
University
Nashville,
TN 37235
phone:
(615) 322-6900; fax (615) 343-6909
lynn.ramey@vanderbilt.edu
1991-1997: Harvard University, Romance Languages
and Literatures, Ph.D.
1989-1991: Indiana University - Bloomington,
French, M.A.
1982-1986: University of Pennsylvania, French
Language and Culture, B.A.
1982-1986: University of Pennsylvania, Applied
Science - Computer Science, B.A.S.
2006-
Associate Professor of French, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2001-2006: Assistant Professor of French,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
1999-2001: Assistant Professor of French,
University of Montevallo, AL
1998-1999: Lecturer, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN
1997-1998: Visiting Assistant Professor, Austin
Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
1995-1996: Lectrice, cole Normale Suprieure,
Fontenay aux Roses, France
books and edited volumes
Christian, Saracen and Genre in
Medieval French Literature.
Studies in Medieval History and Culture Series. (New York: Routledge, 2001). This book
explores how interethnic relationships between Christians and Muslims both
reflect and inform hegemonic culture in France from 1100 to 1500, claiming that
generic forms evolve as adaptations to shifting cultural paradigms.
Reviews in:
Speculum 78.4 (2003): 1381-3
Medieval Encounters 9.1 (2003): 186-189
The Medieval Review
03.03.13 (2003): online at www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/
Race,
Class, and Gender in Medieval Cinema. Editors Lynn Ramey and Tison Pugh. The New Middle Ages
Series. (New York: Palgrave, 2007).
An edited collection of essays that explores why and how directors
intentionally insert modern preoccupations with race, class, and gender into a
setting that would normally be considered incompatible with these concepts.
La Mort le Roi Artu: From the
Illustrated Lancelot Prose of Yale 229. Series editor, Elizabeth Willingham. Editors Nancy Black,
Walter Blue, Nina Dulin-Mallory, Virginie Greene, Stacy Hahn, Kathy Krause,
Joan McRae, Lynn Ramey. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008).
La Queste del Saint Graal: From
the Illustrated Lancelot Prose of Yale 229. Series editor, Elizabeth Willingham. Editors Walter Blue, Nina
Dulin-Mallory, Virginie Greene, Stacy Hahn, Lynn Ramey. (Turnhout: Brepols,
under contract, forthcoming 2009).
journal
articles
Monstrous Alterity in Early Modern
Travel Accounts: Lessons from the Ambiguous Medieval Discourse on Humanness, Esprit
Crateur, 48.1 (2008): 81-95.
Laughter and Manhood in Jehan de
Saintr (1456). Fifteenth
Century Studies, 31 (2006):164-73.
Androgynous Power and the Maternal
Body in Marguerite de Navarres Les Prisons, Dalhousie French Studies,
71 (2005): 31-38.
Unauthorized Preaching: the sermon
in Jean Bodels Jeu de Saint Nicolas. Disputatio, 6 (2005): 221-34.
Jean Bodels Jeu de Saint
Nicolas: a Call for
Non-violent Crusade. French Forum, 27.3 (2002): 1-14.
Role Models? Saracen Women in
Medieval French Epic. Romance Notes, 41.2 (2001): 131-41.
Representations of Women in
Chrtiens Erec et Enide: Courtly literature or misogyny? Romanic Review, 84.4 (1993):
377-86.
book chapters
La geste que Turoldus declinet:
History and Authorship in Frank Cassentis Chanson de Roland (France, 1978). In Hollywood in
the Holy Land: the Fearful Symmetries of Movie Medievalism. Ed. Nickolas
Haydock and Edward Risden. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, forthcoming 2009.
Images of Rebellion: the Social and
Political Context of Yale ms 229 La Mort le Roy Artus. In Essays on the
Illustrated Lancelot Prose of Yale 229. Ed. Beth Willingham. Turnhout:
Brepols, 2007: 7-14.
In Praise of Troubadourism: Creating
Community in Occupied France, 1942-43 In Race, Class, and Gender in
Medieval Cinema. Eds. Lynn Ramey and Tison Pugh. New York: Palgrave, 2007: 139-153.
Introduction: Filming the Other
Middle Ages with Tison Pugh. In Race, Class, and Gender in Medieval
Cinema. Eds. Lynn Ramey and Tison Pugh. New York: Palgrave, 2007: 1-12.
The Death of Aude and the
Conversion of Bramimonde: Border Pedagogy and Medieval Feminist Criticism. In Approaches
to Teaching the Song of Roland. Eds. William Kibler and Leslie Zarker
Morgan. NY: MLA, 2006: 232-237.
La perception du sarrasin XIe-XIVe
sicles: limage du musulman dans la littrature franaise In Histoire de
lislam et des musulmans en France, du Moyen Age nos jours, aspects
religieux, politiques et culturels. Eds. Mohammed Arkoun and Jean
Mouttapa. Paris: Albin Michel,
2006: 194-203.
Patriarchy and Monarchy: Franois
de Billon, the Querelles des femmes, and the Rise of French Absolutism. In The World and Its Rival: Essays
on Literary Imagination in Honor of Per Nykrog. Eds. Kathryn Karczewska and Tom Conley. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999: 161-70.
Chanson de Roland (The Song of
Roland). In Epics for Students. Ed. Marie Lazzarie. Detroit: Gale, 1997: 83-106.
Sundiata (Soundjata). In Epics for Students. Ed. Marie Lazzarie. Detroit: Gale, 1997: 398-416.
encyclopedia articles
Eleanor of Aquitaine and Reynard
Literature. In Facts on File Companion to Pre-1600 British Poetry. Ed. Michelle M. Sauer. NY: Facts on File, forthcoming.
Georges Chastelain and Antoine de
La Sale. In The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal: 1300-1500. Ed. Clayton J. Drees. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing,
2001: 97-99 and 282-83.
Minstrels and Other Itinerant
Performers as Travelers. In Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle
Ages: an Encyclopedia. Eds.
John B. Friedman and Kristen M. Figg.
NY: Garland Publishing, 2000: 401-02.
conference proceedings
Voyage
en Orient: ralit et imagination dans la gographie du roman mdival. In La
Gographie dans les textes narratifs mdivaux. Ed. Danielle Buschinger. Greifswald, Germany: Reineke-Verlag, WODAN series 62, 1996:
129-38.
A
Crisis of Category: Transvestism and Narration in Two Eighteenth-Century
Novels. In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Graduate Student
Conference in French and Comparative Literatures, Columbia University, March
4-5, 1994. NY: Columbia
University, 1995: 72-77.
book reviews
Strange Words: Retelling and
Reception in the Medieval Roland Textual Tradition by Margaret Jewett Burland.
H-France Reviews. Forthcoming http://www.h-france.net/reviews/list.html
Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman
de Perceforest
by Sylvia Huot. Arthuriana 16.1 (2006): 72-74.
Courtly Love Undressed: Reading
Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture by E. Jane Burns and The
Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years
War by Susan Crane. Arthuriana
13.2 (2003): 104-7.
Christine de Pizan and Medieval
French Lyric edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards. The Medieval Review. Online. 4 August 2001. Available http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr
Shebas Daughters: Whitening and
Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Literature by Jacqueline de
Weever. The Medieval Review.
Online. 2 January 1999. Available
http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr
Clothes Make the Man by
Valerie Hotchkiss. The Medieval
Review. Online. 1 October 1997.
Available http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr
The Fall of Kings and Princes
by M. Victoria Guerin. Arthuriana
6.2 (1996): 95-97.
Fact and Fiction: Encounters with
Monstrosity in Textual Travels. Invited paper by Medieval Romance
Society. 43rd
International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May, 2008.
Panelist, Lessons for Modern Men
and Women from Medieval Spain, Austin Peay State University Asanbe Lecture
Series, April 4, 2007.
Courtly Love and Heresy in Medieval Provence, Vanderbilt
Alumni College Abroad program in Aix-en-Provence, France, June 18, 2004.
Islam and Immigration in France:
Today and Yesterday, Vanderbilt Alumni College Abroad program in
Aix-en-Provence, France, June 21, 2004.
Parodic Monstrosity and the New World Body. Renaissance
Society of America annual meeting. Chicago, April 3-5, 2008.
History and Genre in Cassentis Chanson de Roland. Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL. December 27-30, 2007.
Nigra sum: Blackness and
Miscegenation in Patristical Commentaries on the Song of Songs. Southeastern
Medieval Association. Spartanburg, SC. October 4-6, 2007.
Are Pygmies Men? Medieval
Monstrosity in Travel Accounts. 3rd Annual Symposium of the
International Medieval Society. Paris, France. June 29-July 1, 2006.
Mapping the New World Body: Early
Transpositions of Medieval Monstrosity. 9th Annual International
Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association. Genoa, Italy. May 24-27,
2006.
Locating Iberia within European
Medieval Studies: A Panel Discussion. 41st International Congress
on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo,
MI. May 2-7, 2006
Violence, Conversion, and the Limits of Rationality in Medieval French Literature. Modern Language Association. Washington, DC. December 27-30, 2005.
Miscegenation in the William
Cycle. Modern Language Association. Washington, DC. December 27-30, 2005.
The Relevance of Medieval Spain: a
roundtable discussion. 40th International Congress on Medieval
Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 5-8, 2005.
(Re)making the Middle Ages:
Viollet-le-Ducs Architectural Bodies. Southeastern Medieval Association.
Charleston, SC. October 14-16,
2004.
Race and Courtly Film: Martin
Lawrence Meets Morgan Freeman. 11th Triennial Congress of the
International Courtly Literature Society.
Madison, WI. July 29
– August 4, 2004.
Washington Irving at the Alhambra:
Dreaming of the Moor in Nineteenth-Century Spain. 39th
International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
May 6-9, 2004.
Panel Chair, Medieval Perceptions
of Women and Womanhood. Sewanee
Medieval Colloquium. Sewanee,
TN. April 16-17, 2004.
Medieval Western Views of
Conception and Literary Miscegenation. Medieval Academy. Seattle, WA. April 1-3, 2004.
The Conquered Poet: Charles
dOrlans and the Aftermath of Agincourt. South Atlantic Modern Language
Association. Atlanta, GA. November 14-16, 2003.
Medieval Western Views of Conception
and Literary Miscegenation. Southeastern Medieval Association. Fayetteville,
AR. October 23-25, 2003.
Troubadour Peire Cardenal and the
Rise of the Individual. 38th
International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
May 7-10, 2003.
Laughter and Manhood in Jehan de
Saintr. Kentucky
Foreign Language Conference.
Lexington, KY. April 24-27,
2003.
Kidnapped! Forced Border Crossing in Medieval
French Literature. Southeastern Medieval Association. Tallahassee, FL. September 26-28, 2002.
Gender, Ethnicity, and Captivity in
Medieval French Epic. 37th
International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
May 2002.
Gender and Captivity in Marguerite
de Navarres Prisons. Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference. Lexington, KY. April 18-20, 2002.
Pre-Raphaelites and the Medieval
Aesthetic: Christina Rossettis Goblin Market. Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. Sewanee, TN.
April 12-13, 2002.
Organizer and chair, special SEMA
session, Deviance and Disobedience in the Middle Ages. South Atlantic Modern
Language Association. New Orleans,
LA. November 11, 2001.
Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas: Saracens and Dramatic Genre. Southeastern Medieval Association. New Orleans, LA. October 18-20, 2001.
Model Books and Religious
Iconography in La Mort le Roy Artus. 36th
International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
May 2001.
The Imaginary and Symbolic
Saracen. Modern Language Association.
Washington, DC. December
27-30, 2000.
Images of Rebellion: The Social and Political Context of the Images of Yale 229. Southeastern Medieval Association. Asheville, NC. September 28-30, 2000.
Converting the Beast: Cultural
Encounters and Rational Argument in Twelfth-Century France. Medieval Academy. Austin, TX. April 13-15, 2000.
Female Rule and Universal History
in Christine de Pizan and Boccaccio. Southeastern Medieval Association. Knoxville, TN. October 15-17, 1999.
Organizer, Liminal Learning:
Teaching and Culture in the Middle Ages. Modern Language Association. San Francisco, CA. December 27-30, 1998.
The Ambiguous Lesson of
Experiential Learning in the Legends of Charlemagne. Modern Language
Association. San Francisco,
CA. December 27-30, 1998.
Distance Learning and
Video-Conferencing: Windows to New Opportunities. with Paul Crapo, Karen
Sorenson and David Jaymes.
Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers Association. Nashville, TN. November 6-7, 1998.
Saracen Women in Medieval French
Epic. Southeastern Medieval Association.
Nashville, TN. October
24-26, 1997.
Cross(dress)ing Boundaries: Gender,
Ethnicity and Transvestism in Medieval French Romance. 31st International Congress
on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo,
MI. May 1996.
Imagining the Route: Getting to the
Orient in Medieval Romances. La Gographie dans les romans mdivaux. Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, France. March 28-31, 1996.
The Ball and Chain: Interracial
Marriage and Slavery in Medieval French Romance and Chansons de Geste. 30th
International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
May 1995.
A Crisis of Category: Transvestism
and Narration in Two Eighteenth-Century Novels. Graduate Student Conference in French and Comparative
Literatures. Columbia University,
NY, NY. March 4-5, 1994.
The Anglo-Norman Jeu dAdam and the Twelfth-Century Discourse
of Female Power. Boston College,
Boston, MA. April 1992.
books
Race and the European Middle
Ages. A study of the
development of racial consciousness in medieval European literature and the
importance of the Middle Ages to modern notions of race.
LAgrauains: From the Illustrated
Lancelot Prose of Yale 229. Series editor, Elizabeth Willingham. Editors Walter Blue, Nina
Dulin-Mallory, Virginie Greene, Stacy Hahn, Lynn Ramey.
articles
Epic Movie: Cassentis Song of
Roland and the
problems of generic representation
grant
Applying for NEH summer institute
grant, Medievalism in the Modern Imagination with Tison Pugh.
Fellow,
Pre-Modern Others: Race and Sexuality, Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center,
Vanderbilt University, 2005-2006
NEH Summer Institute, Travel
Writing, Skepticism, and Religious Belief in Renaissance France. Directors,
Carla Zecher and George Hoffmann.
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, July 11 to August 5, 2005.
Vanderbilt University Research
Scholar grant, spring 2004.
Vanderbilt University nominee (one
of two) NEH summer stipend 2003
Vanderbilt University grant for
Initiative on Cultural Diversity in the Curriculum, summer 2002
NEH Summer Seminar, The Arthurian
Illuminated Manuscript and the Culture of the High Middle Ages. Director, R. Howard Bloch. Yale University, New Haven, CT, July 3
to August 11, 2000
Outstanding Foreign Language
Professor, Austin Peay State University, 1997-98
Lurcy Fellowship for dissertation
research in France, 1995-96
Derek Bok Award for teaching
excellence, spring 1994 and fall 1995
Jens Aubrey Westengard award,
Harvard University, 1994-95
Harvard Graduate Society Fellowship
for summer travel, 1994
Harvard Romance Languages and
Literatures Travel Grant, 1993
Fellowship, Institut dՎtudes
franaises, Avignon, France, 1993
Foreign Language Area Studies
Fellowship in Arabic, 1992-93
Director
Chad E.
Simpson (French; BA honors thesis director), 2008.
Amy C.
Leone (French; BA honors thesis director), 2008.
Megan Russell (French; BA honors
thesis director), La folie dans la littrature du moyen ge, 2006.
Christin Harper (European Studies
and French; BA thesis director), Feminism and Nouvelle Vague Cinema, 2003.
Reader
Susan
Crisafulli (English; PhD dissertation committee), Wommen, of kynde: the
Construction of the Natural and the Natural World in Medieval Courtly, 2006.
Jennifer
Montesi (French; BA honors thesis committee), Entre la passion et la raison:
une rflexion sur lespace crative ouverte en dialogue avec Mikhal Bakhtine
et Michel Meyer, 2005.
Shirin Edwin (French; PhD
dissertation committee), Ngocier pour (sur)vivre: la reprsentation de
lIslam dans les productions romanesque francophones de lAfrique de lOuest,
2005.
Heather J. Garrett (French; PhD
dissertation committee), Nothing to Say: Disclosures of Silence in the
Narratives of Louis-Ren Des Forts, Julien Gracq, Margeurite Duras, Alain
Robbe-Grillet, and Fritz Lang, 2004.
Brnice Le Marchand (French; PhD
dissertation committee), Mise en scne du miroir: Le spectaculaire dans les
blasons et emblmes de la Renaissance et les contes de fes du dix-septime
sicle en France, 2004.
Alistaire Tallent (French; PhD
dissertation committee), Defying Domesticity: Prostitute Heroines of
Eighteenth-Century French Fiction in Their Own Words, 2005.
Service
Delegate
Assembly, Modern Language Association, 2008-2010.
Executive
board, Southeastern Medieval Association, 2003-2006.
Editorial board, The Medieval Review, 2004-2005.
External reviewer for articles submitted to Exemplaria,
Olifant, and Medieval
Perspectives
Evaluator for Canadian Research council grant application,
2002.
Evaluator for Irish Research Council for Humanities and
Social Sciences grant application, 2008.
Vanderbilt University
Chair, Department of French and
Italian, 2008-
Faculty Advisor, Honor Council 2008-
Sub-Committee on Intellectual
Property and Civility, 2008
Coordinating committee, Vanderbilt
Undergraduate Summer Research Program, 2008-
Acting Director of the Program in
Film Studies, 2007-2008
Arts and Sciences Graduate Delegate
Assembly, 2007-2008
Arts and Sciences Faculty Council,
2006-2008
Arts
and Sciences Panel Discussant tenure file program for junior faculty, February
2008
Arts and Sciences Committee on
Academic Standards and Procedures, 2006-2007
Director of Undergraduate Studies in
French, 2002-2003, 2004-2006
Steering Committee, Program in Film
Studies, 2005-2007
Undergraduate Admissions Committee
interviews for honors scholars, 2005
Faculty advisor, graduate conference
Race, Identity, and Nationality, February 25-26, 2005
Pre-major advisor, 2004-2006
Graduate Faculty Delegate Assembly,
2004-2005
Executive Committee for the Center
for European Studies, 2004-2005
Second Language Acquisition
Committee, 2004-present
Organizing committee, The World
Awaits, a series of
four colloquia on career opportunities for foreign language majors, 2002-2003.
Department web coordinator,
2001-2003
Department committee for revision of
undergraduate curriculum, 2001-2002
Organizing committee, Tennessee
& France: The Economic and Cultural Connections, 2001-2002
Community
Introductions and/or discussion
leader for the following films:
Diva (Beineix), Belcourt
Theater Nashville, March 16, 2008.
The Red Balloon and White
Mane (Lamorisse), Belcourt Theater Nashville, December 16, 2007.
Breathless (Godard), Belcourt
Theater Nashville, September 9, 2007.
400 Blows (Truffaut),
Belcourt Theater Nashville, February 23, 2007.
Mouchette (Resnais), Belcourt
Theater Nashville, December 13, 2005.
Le Tango des Rachevski
(Garbarski), Belcourt Theater Nashville, November 10, 2005.
Masculin/Fminin (Godard),
Belcourt Theater Nashville, April 30, 2005.
Medieval Academy of America
Southeastern Medieval Association
Modern Language Association
International Courtly Literature Society
Socit Rencesvals
Fifteenth-Century Studies Society
near-native
ability in French
proficient
in reading Latin
intermediate
level in reading classical Arabic
beginning
Spanish