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CURRICULUM VITAE
Christine
McWebb
Department of French Studies
Modern Languages Building 327
200 University Avenue
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
Ph: 519-888-4567 ext.2465, Fax: 519-725-0554, e-mail: cmcwebb@uwaterloo.ca
POST-SECONDARY
EDUCATION:
1998 Ph.D. University of Western Ontario (French Literature)
1994 M.A. University of Western Ontario (French
Literature)
1993 Honors B.A. University of Western Ontario (French)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2003- Assistant Professor,
Department of French Studies, University of Waterloo
1999-2003 Assistant Professor, Modern Languages
and Cultural Studies, University
of Alberta
AREA(S) OF SPECIALIZATION:
French Medieval Literature, Female Mysticism,
Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Women's Writing, Text and Image
TEACHING:
a. Undergraduate Courses taught in the previous five years:
University of Waterloo, Department of French Studies
2003-2004 FR197 Introduction
to French Literature and Culture
FR192a French
Language I
FR354 La
littérature du XIXe siècle
University of Alberta, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
2002-2003 FREN333 Francophone Cultural Practices
FREN442 Text
in Context in French: From Manuscript to Hypertext
FREN252
Reading and Writing in French
GERM441 Exercises
in German Translation
2001-2002 FREN333 Francophone Cultural Practices:
Le merveilleux
FREN442 Text
in Context in French: From Manuscript to Hypertext
FRANC235 Survol
de la littérature francophone
FREN499 Literature
and Science
2000-2001 FREN251 Reading and Writing in French
FREN253 Contrastive Analysis of French and English
FREN333
Francophone Cultural Practices: Le Moyen Age
GERM498 Literary Women in the German Middle Ages
1999-2000 FREN301 Introduction to French Literature
FREN333
Francophone Cultural Practices: Le Moyen Age
FREN252
Reading and Writing in French
University
of Western Ontario, Department of French
1998-1999 FR021 French Language
1997-1998 FR392 Introduction à
la littérature française du dix-neuxième siècle
FR271
French Language, Composition and Grammar
FR273
Intensive Translation (Level I)
King's College, Department of Modern Languages,
London, Ontario
1998-1999 FR383 Intensive Translation (Level II)
b. Graduate Courses:
University of Waterloo, Department of French Studies
2003-2004 FR611 Du manuscrit à l'hypertextualité
FR655 La
littérature du XIXe siècle
University of Alberta, Modern Languages and
Cultural Studies
2002-2003 FREN699 Text in Context in French: From
Manuscript to Hypertext
GERM698 Exercises
in German Translation
2000-2001 FREN531 Female Readers and Writers in
the French Middle Ages
GERM698
Literary Women in the German Middle Ages
1999-2000 GER699 German literary translation (reading
course)
PUBLICATIONS:
Edition:
The Quarrel about the Romance of the Rose. Critical edition and
translation into English of the debate epistles and related documents.
In collaboration with Dr. Earl Jeffrey Richards. New York: Routledge,
forthcoming.
Articles/Chapters:
"Hermeneutics of Irony: Lady Reason and the Romance of the
Rose." Dalhousie French Studies. 2005, forthcoming.
"The Transition from Manuscript to the Printed Page." From
Cave Painting to the Internet: An Encyclopedia of the Written and the
Printed Word. Ed. Antonio Rodriguez-Buckingham. New York: Greenwood
P, 2005, forthcoming.
"Le débat sur le Roman de la rose"
Encyclopaedia for Medieval Women, ed. Nadia Margolis, New York:
Routledge, 2004, forthcoming.
"Heresy and Debate: Reading the Roman de la rose."
Aevum: Rassegna di Scienze Storiche, Linguistiche, e Filologiche
67 (2003).
"Translating the Migrant Self: Stefan Heym's Hostages or
Der Fall Glasenapp" (in collaboration with Meghan McKinnie)
TTR (The Translator's Review), 2003, forthcoming.
"Female City Builders: Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias and
Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames" Magistra.
A Journal for Female Spirituality 9.1 (2003) : 52-72.
"Female City Builders: Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias and
Christine de Pisan's Livre de la cité des dames"
http://www.florin.ms/beth5.html
"Beinecke
MS 427 Le livre des trois vertus by Christine de Pisan: Lady
Reason and the Book," Florilegium 18.1 (2001) : 83-96.
"The
Roman de la rose and the Livre des trois vertus: The Never-Ending
Debate." in Au champ des escriptures (Actes du IIIe Colloque international
sur Christine de Pizan, Lausanne, 18-22 juillet 1998), ed. Eric
Hicks, Paris: Champion, 2000, 309-24.
"Lyrical
Conventions and the Creation of Female Subjectivity in Christine de
Pizan's Cent ballades d'amant et de dame." Christine de
Pizan and Medieval French Lyric. Ed. Earl Jeffrey Richards. Gainesville,
Fld.: UP of Florida, 1998, 168-86.
"Joan of Arc and Christine de Pizan: The Symbiosis
of Two Warriors in the Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc." Fresh
Verdicts on Joan of Arc. Eds. Bonnie Wheeler and Charles T. Wood.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1996, 133-44. Reprinted in 1999.
"La
Mythologie révisionniste chez Christine de Pizan." Women
in French Studies. (1996) : 27-39.
Book Reviews:
Kathy M. Krause ed., Reassessing the Heroine in Medieval French Literature.
Gainesville, FL: UP of Florida, 2001, in Speculum 79.2 (2004)
: 510-12.
Kate Langdon Forhan. The Political Theory of Christine de Pizan.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002, in The Rocky Mountain Review of
Language and Literature 57.1 (2003) : 83-85.
Elizabeth A. Andersen. The Voices of Mechthild of Magdeburg.
Bern: Peter Lang, 2000, in Seminar 39.1 (2003): 64-65.
Kathrin Utz Tremp. Quellen zur Geschichte der Waldenser von Freiburg
im Uechtland (1399-1439). Series: Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters. 18. Band. Hannover:
Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2000, in The Medieval Review (http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/tmr/tmr),
Kalamazoo, MI: The Medieval Institute, 2002.
Albrecht
Classen, Frauen in der deutschen Literaturgeschichte. Die ersten
800 Jahre. Ein Lesebuch, Women in German Literature, Vol. 4, New
York: Peter Lang, 2000, in Seminar 38.2 (2002) : 277-78.
Miramon,
Charles de, Les 'donnés' au moyen âge: une forme de
vie religieuse laïque v.1180-v.1500, Paris: Cerf, 1999, in
The Medieval Review (http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/tmr/tmr),
Kalamazoo, MI: The Medieval Institute, 2001.
Susie
Nash. Between France and Flanders. Manuscript Illumination in Amiens
in the Fifteenth Century. Series: The British Library Studies in
Medieval Culture. London/Toronto: British Library/U of Toronto P, 1999,
in The Medieval Review (http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/tmr/tmr),
Kalamazoo, MI: The Medieval Institute, 2001.
Other
Publications:
"A
Cross-Country Checkup on Medieval Studies" Florilegium 20
(2003) : 59-61.
CONFERENCE
PARTICIPATION
"A Female Translator in the Fifteenth-Century: the Case of Elisabeth
of Nassau-Saarbruecken" ACMRS, University of Arizona, February
2004.
"A
Syncretism of Biblical and Worldly Imagery in Christine de Pizan's Livre
de la cité des dames" Vth Internation Conference on Christine
de Pizan, Salzburg University, Salzburg, Austria, July 2003.
"Des cités au féminin dans la littérature
médiévale" 2003 Conference of the Social Sciences
and the Humanities, Dalhousie University, Halifax, May 2003.
"The Author as Architect: Hildegard of Bingen and Christine de
Pisan" Annual Meeting of the RMMLA (Rocky Mountain Modern Languages
Association), Scottsdale, AZ, October 2002.
"Female
City Builders: Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias and Christine de
Pisan's Livre de la cité des dames"
City and the Book II, Florence, September 2002.
"Text and Image in Christine de Pizan's Livre des trois vertus"
10th Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship,
Reading and Publishing (SHARP), University of London, England, July
2002.
"Translating the Migrant Self: Stefan Heym's Hostages"
2002 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Toronto,
May 2002 (in collaboration with Meghan McKinnie)
"Heresy and Debate: Reading the Roman de la
rose"
36th International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo May, 2001.
"Institutional Space that Saves Lives: Heresy
and Debate in the French Middle Ages" Annual
Highway Two Conference Edmonton-Calgary, Edmonton, April 2001.
"Christine
de Pizan's Role in the Debate about the Roman de la rose and
her Livre des trois vertus"
4th International Congress "The Fifteenth Century" Antwerp,
Belgium, July 2000.
"Le
songe comme mensonge dans la littérature médiévale
française"
Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanitites, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, May 2000.
"Transgression
into Literality: Lady Reason and the Romance of the Rose"
35th International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo May, 2000.
"Dame
Raison et le Débat sur le roman de la rose"
"Cherchez la dame: Women, Sexuality and French
Medieval Writing" University of Western Ontario, London, April 2000.
"Un
langage à tout dire dans deux exempla du Roman de
la rose de Jean de Meun" "Les
frontières de la narration" Colloque interuniversitaire UQAM/Western/Toronto,
University of Toronto, January 1999.
"Le
regard dans deux miroirs: Le roman de la rose et Le livre
des trois vertus" "IIIe
Colloque International sur Christine de Pizan" Université de
Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 1998.
"Le
débat sur Le roman de la rose continue: le langage performatif
chez Jean de Meun et Christine de Pizan"
"Forum 1998" University of Western Ontario, Department
of French, London, March 1998.
"A
Mirror for Ladies: Christine de Pizan's Livre des trois vertus"
"The Culture of the Book in the Middle Ages and
the Renaissance" University of Western Ontario, London, March 1997.
"The
Use of Authorial Sources in the Works of Christine de Pizan"
"31st International Congress on Medieval Studies"
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 1996.
"Le
triptyque matrilinéaire dans Le Livre de la cité de
dames de Christine de Pizan" "Christine
de Pizan: Texts/Intertexts/Contexts" Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance
Studies, State University of New York, Binghamton, October 1995.
"Le
Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (1429) de Christine de Pizan: la
construction d'un mythe 'féminin'"
"2nd International Medieval Congress" University of Leeds, Leeds, England,
July 1995.
"Joan
of Arc and Christine de Pizan: The Symbiosis of Two Warriors in the
Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc"
"30th International Congress on Medieval Studies"
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 1995.
"La
construction du 'je', sujet féminin, dans les Cent ballades
d'amant et de dame de Christine de Pizan"
29th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 1994.
MAJOR
GRANTS
UW/SSHRC Seed Research Grant (2004)
SSHRC Standard Research Grant 4A Ranking (2003-2004)
SSHRC-Sponsored Junior Faculty Program (1999-2002)
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2001) Refused
by the candidate
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (1996-1998)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (1994-1997)
UNIVERSITY
ADMINISTRATION:
University of Waterloo
Department:
2003- TA Supervision
2003-2005 Co-organizer of the Second International Conference on Women's
Writing in the Ancien Régime (University of Waterloo)
University of Alberta
Department:
• Undergraduate Advisor for French
• Graduate
Advisor, Romance languages
• Exchange Liaison Officer, Université
de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
• Visibility
Committee
• Liaison Librarian for French
• Undergraduate Curriculum Task Force
• Graduate Committee