Christine Bourgeois
- Assistant Professor
- French
Contact Info
Lawrence
1445 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045
Biography —
Christine V. Bourgeois came to the University of Kansas after completing her doctoral work at Princeton University in May of 2014. She specializes in the Francophone and Occitan traditions of the Middle Ages, with particular interest in the interconnection between medieval and modern narrative traditions. Her current book project, Saintly Asceticism and the Literary Machine: The Many Lives of Saint Anthony the Great, is a literary history of sanctity through the perspective of the Anthony tradition, spanning the Middle Ages to the beginning of the the twentieth century.
Education —
Research —
Hagiography and secular literature in the Middle Ages; relationships between medieval and modern textual traditions; early Third Republic fiction; notions and representations of art, authorship and truth; representations of women and femininity; French-Canadian literature.
Teaching —
Recent Graduate Courses Taught
Thème et Version
French for Reading
Recent Undergraduate Courses Taught
Medieval Saints and Modern Sinners
French Literature of the Middle Ages
La France d’aujourd’hui
Introduction to French Literature
Applied Grammar and Composition
French Phonetics
Intermediate Conversation
Selected Publications —
Books
Saintly Asceticism and the Literary Machine: The Many Lives of Saint Anthony the Great (in progress)
Articles
“Eustace’s Stag and the Old French Guillaume de Palerne”. The Romanic Review (Forthcoming)
“Poetic Identity and the Name in the Lyric Corpus of Bernart de Ventadorn” Tenso 30.1-2 (Spring-Fall 2015): 25-47.
Selected Papers
“Medieval Hagiography as Literary Machine: Saintly Doubling in the Lives of Desert Ascetics”. Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York, NY (scheduled for January 2018).
“What's the Matter with Medieval Hagiography: Reading Saints Beyond Identity Politics”. Medieval & Early Modern Studies Seminar, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (November 2017)
“Animal Senefiance and the Early Dits: The Case of Li Dis dou cerf amoureus”. 41st Annual Meeting of the Mid-America Medieval Association, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO (September 2017)
“The Anonymous Hagiographer: Divine Authorship and Authorship as Divine”. 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (May 2016).