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MODERN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT
Joan E. McRae Kleinlein
1000 Meadowview Lane
Farmville, VA 23901
jmcrae@hsc.edu
(434) 315-0275; (434) 223-6200

Education

    Ph.D. (May 1997), French, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
    Major field of concentration: Medieval French Literature
    Minor field of concentration: Comparative Medieval Literature

    MA, 1989, French, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, at Paris X (Nanterre) and
    the Ecole de la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris, France
    (awarded the Diplôme Supérieure de Français des Affaires)
    Major Field of Concentration: French Culture and Civilization
    University of Georgia, 1987-88, Graduate Coursework

    BA, 1986, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
    Major: French
    Sweetbriar Junior Year in France, 1984-85.

Teaching Experience

Hampden-Sydney College, Associate Professor of Modern Languages, 1997-
University of Virginia, Graduate Instructor, 1990-95
University of Georgia, Graduate Instructor, 1987-88

Scholarly Activity

I. Publications:
"Mythopoetics and the Case of La Belle Dame Sans Mercy,” submitted to the conference proceedings volume for the International Courtly Literature Society 2007 conference.

“Cyclification and Circulation of the Quarrel of the Belle dame sans mercy" in Chartier in Europe. Gallica, Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming, 2008.

La Queste del Saint Graal: From the Illustrated Lancelot Prose of Yale 229. Series editor, E. M. Willingham. Editors Joan McRae, Walter Blue, Nina Dulin-Mallory, Virginie Greene, Stacy Hahn, Lynn Ramey. Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2008.

La Mort le Roi Artu: From the Illustrated Lancelot Prose of Yale 229. Series editor, E. M. Willingham. Editors Joan McRae, Nancy Black, Walter Blue, Nina Dulin-Mallory, Virginie Greene, Stacy Hahn, Kathy Krause, Lynn Ramey. Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2007.

"Text and Context: the Production of Images in Yale 229" with William Nelles in The Illustrated Lancelot Prose of Yale 229: Essays on Yale 229. Ed. E. M. Willingham. Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2007.

Alain Chartier: the Quarrel of the Belle dame sans mercy. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Le Cycle de la Belle dame sans mercy d’Alain Chartier: Une anthologie poétique du XV siècle. With David F. Hult. Paris: Classiques Honoré Champion, 2003.

“The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy: Alain Chartier” translated with Tom O’Grady, in The Same Earth, the Same Sky, by Tom O’Grady.Chapel Hill: Tryon Publishing, 2002.

“Roman de la Rose: Digital Surrogates of Three Manuscripts,” Johns Hopkins University, contributing editor. http://rose.mse.jhu.edu, 2002.

Sonnet Variations: A performance of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, actor in video directed by James Schiffer,Films for the Humanities, 2000.

II. Reviews
The Object and the Cause in the Vulgate Cycle, by Miranda Griffin. forthcoming in Encomia, 2007.

A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance, by Ben Ramm. Arthuriana, 16.1 (2006): 72-74.

Les Chansons de Colin Muset, traduites en francaise moderne edited by Christopher Callahan and Samuel N. Rosenberg. The Medieval Review. Online. 10-27-2006. Available at http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr

Facile à dire. Les Sons du Français, by Annie Dumenil. Textbook review, 1998.

III. Papers and Conference Sessions:
Alain Chartier and the Influence of La Belle dame sans mercy: a Roundtable Discussion. 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2008.

"Parody and Subversion in Arthurian Illustration," 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2008.

"Mythopoetics and the Case of La Belle dame Sans Mercy,” International Courtly Literature Society, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2007.

“The Illustrated Chartier Manuscripts,” 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2007.

“Machaut and the Tradition of Love Debate Poetry," 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2006.

“The Narrator in Chartier’s Debate Poems.” 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2006.

“Alain Chartier: New Considerations of His Work.” Session Organizer and Presider. 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2005.

Challenging the Rhetoric of Love in Medieval Debate Narrative.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2005.

“Pictures and Parodies of Courtliness in Arthurian Illumination.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 2004.

“Cherchez la femme! Confluent Notions of the Feminine in La Belle dame sans mercy” South Central Modern Language Association, October, 2004.

“Exploring Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts,” invited lecture, Longwood University, September 23, 2004.

“Seeking Order in Disarray: Manuscripts of the Quarrel of the Belle dame sans mercy.” 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2004.

“ Fairy Places, Production Spaces: doing Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, October 2003.

“How to Make a Little Video Go a Long Way in Foreign Language Class.” Foreign Language Association of Virginia, October, 2002.

“Reading Images in Arthurian Manuscripts: Codicology and Yale 229.” 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2002.

“Suscitating Shakespeare’s Sonnets on Stage and for the Camera” Organizer, Group for Early Modern Studies, Philadelphia, November 2001.

“Does a Woman Have the Right to Say No?” South Atlantic Modern Language
Association, Atlanta, November, 2001.

“Translating the Belle dame sans mercy: Richard Ros’s 15th Century Contemporary English Translation,” Southeastern Medieval Association, New Orleans, October 2001.

“Remodeling: Cueing Image to Text.” 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2001.

La Belle dame sans mercy: Principles of Editing and Translation.” Invited lecture, Harvard University, April, 2001.

"The Production of Illustrations in Yale MS 229.” Northeastern Modern Language Association, Hartford, March, 2001

"Reading Retrospectively: Using Medieval Reader Reception as an Interpretive Guide to Chartier's Belle dame sans mercy." Southeastern Medieval Association, Knoxville, October, 1999

"Idle Hands are the Devil's Workshop: Gilles de Rais at play in 15th century France" Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Seventh Annual Conference, Coral Gables, FL, October, 1999

"The Murder Trials of the Belle Dame Sans Mercy: A critical Edition of the 15th Century Poems." Work in Progress series, Hampden-Sydney College, December 1997

"The Serialized Murder Trial of the Belle Dame sans mercy," 32nd International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1997

"Lawyers in Love: Love Poems in the Guise of Legal Text in Fifteenth Century France," New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, FL, March 1996

Awards and Honors

Summer Research Fellow, Hampden-Sydney College, 1998-2007.
Fellow, Wye Faculty Seminar, The Aspen Institue, Wye, MD. July, 2004.
National Endowment for the Humanities, summer stipend recipient, 2003.
NEH seminar fellow, Paris, Summer 2003. “Urbanism and Early Modern Paris,” led by Karen Newman.
"The Illuminated Manuscript" led by Roger Weiss. Rare Book School, Charlottesville, August 2002.
Keirfoot-Stone Award, in appreciation for support of College Choral program. Hampden-Sydney College, May 2002.
William W. Elliott Assistant Professorship in Modern Languages, awarded for excellence in scholarship, teaching and service to the College, July 2001-July 2004.
Fuqua Award for Excellence in Teaching, May 2001.
NEH seminar fellow, Yale University, Summer 2000. “The Arthurian Illuminated
Manuscript and the Culture of the High Middle Ages,” led by Howard Bloch.
Seminar fellowship, Dupont-Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges at the University of Richmond, August 1999 "Virtualia: Reproducing Language and Culture Online."
Mednick Fellow, Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, summer, 1998.

Courses Taught

Quest for the Grail
French Literature: Medieval-17th century
Arthurian Tradition
Advanced French Grammar
Medieval French Literature
French Culture and Civilization
Topics in Contemporary French Culture
French Phonetics
French Film
Intermediate French
French Business
Beginning French
The History of Paris through its Monuments
Introduction to French Studies
French literature: 18th-20 centuries
French Composition and Conversation
Summer Abroad, Intermediate French
Summer Abroad, Interdisciplinary European Union
The Holocaust (team-taught course)
Western Culture 103– French Rev – Cold War
Western Culture: 1789-present
French Theatre
Honors Seminar: The DaVinci Code
Victor Hugo: Notre Dame de Paris


Academic Service at Hampden-Sydney

Chair, Task force to evaluate Duel Enrollment, 2007
Chair, Curriculum Review Committee, 2007-2008
Chair, Humanities Division, 2006-2009
Chair, Academic Affairs Committee, 2006; committee member 2005-2009
Executive Committee of the Faculty, 2006-2009
Grievance Committee, 2006-2009
College Benefits Committee 2002-05
Student Affairs Committee 2002-04
Advising for Freshmen, French Majors and Minors, International Studies Abroad - current
Chinese Fulbright Search Committee, 2007
German Search Committee 2003, Spanish Search Committee 2002
Economics Search Committee 2003, Physics Search Committee 2001
Presidential Inauguration Committee, 1999-2000
International Studies Committee, secretary, 1998-2000
Academic Affairs Committee, secretary, 1998-99
Chair of French and German Divisions, Modern Language Dept., 1998-2000
French and Spanish Search Committee, 1998-99, German Search Committee, 1999
Committee on Humanities Studies and Core Requirements, 1997-98


Campus Activity at Hampden-Sydney

Founder and Advisor, French Club, 2002-current
Sponsor, weekly French table to practice oral French skills, 1997-2006
Tutor Coordinator, organize and teach pedagogical methodology to tutors 1998-2001
Dramaturge and research coordinator for Molière’s Tartuffe, directed by Shirley Kagan, 2007
Organizer, Film Studies symposium, featuring R. Barton Palmer, February 2006
Founder, Freshman Living and Learning Community pilot programs, 2000, 2001
Organizer, Quest for the Grail symposium featuring Norris Lacy, 2000
Honor Court Mock Trial discussion leader, 2000-04
Grader of Rhetoric Exams, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2008
Actor in Six Degrees of Separation, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lend Me a Tenor, and All My Sons, directed by Shirley Kagan, spring 2003, fall 2001, fall 1999, fall 1998.
Admissions Tour. Participated in historical presentation of the campus (as Minnie Lacy) by the Office of Admissions, Parents Weekend, 98-02.
Admissions Recruiting Lecture 2002
Multicultural Affairs Coordinator of fall event, for presentation of poetry readings, ethnic dancing, and musical arrangements, fall '99.
Costume Coordinator and Renaissance Consultant, Madrigal Feast Production, HSC Glee Club concert, fall, '98-‘00.


Professional Affiliations

Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association
The Medieval Academy of America, South Eastern Medieval Academy
International Courtly Literature Society
International Arthurian society, North American Branch
Board of Directors, International Machaut Society, 2006-2008
Société Rencesvals
American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
President, American Association of University Professors, HSC chapter (2006-2007) secretary/treasurer 2005-06)
International Alain Chartier Society, co-founder and president (2007 - )

updated October 16, 2007