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D. E. O’Sullivan – 1 Daniel E. O’Sullivan Department of Modern Languages Bondurant C-115 University, Mississippi 38677 Tel: (662) 915-6693 Fax: (662) 915-1086 Email: [email protected] Appointments University of Mississippi • Chair of Modern Languages (25 October 2017 – Present) • Interim Chair of Modern Languages (1 January 2017 – 24 October 2017) • Assistant Chair of Modern Languages (1 September 2016 – 31 December 2016) • Professor of French (1 July 2015 – Present) • Associate Professor of French (1 July 2008—30 June 2015) • Senior Fellow of the Residential College (March 1, 2009 – June 30, 2013) • Assistant Professor of French (1 July 2002–30 June 2008) Indiana University, Visiting Lecturer (Fall 2000 – Spring 2002) Boston College, Teaching Fellow of French Language (Fall 1995 – Spring 1998) Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III, Lecteur in English/American Literature (AY 1994 – 95) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Teaching Assistant, French (Fall 1992 – Spring 1994) Education Boston College, Ph.D. in French awarded 30 August 2000 • Dissertation: “Marian Devotion in Medieval French Literature: In and Beyond the World of Lyric,” directed by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, M.A. in French awarded 23 August 1994 • Master’s thesis: “Montaigne in His Time and in Our Time: Writing and Reading the Essais.” College of the Holy Cross, A.B. in French awarded 29 May 1992 (Cum Laude) Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, France (AY 1990-91) • Language courses at niveau supérieur and and literature courses with native students. Research Awards and Grants NEH Summer Seminar Instructor, scheduled for June 2018 UM Faculty Achievement Award, awarded by the Provost’s Office on 25 August 2017 SEC Travel Grant, awarded for in summer 2017 College of Liberal Arts Senior Scholar Summer Grant, awarded by College of Liberal Arts on 17 February 2016 Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Grant for research trip to Rome in June 2015 Sabbatical leave granted for AY 2013-14 Fulbright Fellowship Application recommended by American committee for AY 2013-14 (grant not funded) University nomination for NEH Summer Stipend grant competition, 19 September 2007 and 11 September 2008 (grants not funded) Faculty Research Fellow, classes of 2004 and 2006, awarded by the UM Office of Research on 3 May 2004, and 6 Dec 2005. Summer Research Grants, awarded by the UM College of Liberal Arts on 1 November 2002, 10 December 2004, 19 January 2007, and 20 January 2008. Mississippi Humanities Council Grant, awarded for hosting a mini-conference on Comparative Literatures and Cultures at the University of Mississippi on 29 March 2004. Travel Award, awarded by the Indiana University Department of French and Italian on 1 November 2001. D. E. O’Sullivan – 2 Dissertation Fellowship, awarded by the Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Outstanding Graduate Student Award, awarded by the BC Graduate School on 22 April 1998. French Medal for Best Essay, awarded by the College of the Holy Cross on 21 May 1992. Phi Beta Kappa, elected in May 1992. Pi Delta Phi (French National Honor Society), elected in February 1992. Alpha Sigma Nu (Jesuit National Honor Society), elected in April 1992. Teaching and Service Awards Mississippi Humanities Council Humanities Teacher of the Year for UM, AY 2008-09 College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher of the Year, awarded 9 May 2008 Teacher of the Month, awarded by the UM Mortar Board, Tassels Chapter for November 2006. Nominated for the Frist Faculty/Staff Service Award in Spring 2007. Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, Boston College Graduate School, 28 April 1997. Research and Teaching Interests • Interdisciplinary approaches to medieval French and Occitan literatures and cultures, especially music/text relations • Manuscripts and material philology • Textual criticism of medieval music and text. • Games and gaming in medieval literature and culture, especially chess. Monographs O’Sullivan, Daniel E. Musical Memory in Medieval European Song. In progress with interest in project shown by Boydell and Brewer. A project tracing and interpreting musical networks established among texts in Latin, Old French, Old Occitan, Middle English and Middle High German as melodies were reused across repertories. ----. Marian Devotion in Thirteenth-Century French Lyric. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. • Winner of the Southeastern Medieval Association’s Outstanding First Book Prize. • Nominated for MLA First Book Prize. • Excerpts from reviews: o “[E]mblematic of the best scholarship in medieval lyric poetry today,” Christopher Callahan, Encomia 27 (2005 [2007]): 62-64. o “O’Sullivan’s study of Old French song combines sophisticated literary analyses with musical investigations. [...]The result is a refreshing and truly interdisciplinary study,” John Haines, Plainsong and Medieval Music 16 (April 2007): 88. o “[T]he book makes a major contribution to the study of medieval French literature,” Maureen Boulton, The French Review 81 (May 2008): 1266. o “[a] valuable achievement as an inroad into an important but overlooked strand of thirteenth- century artistic culture,” David Maw, Medium Aevum, LXXVI (Fall/Winter 2007): 335. Critical editions ----, Christopher Callahan, and Marie-Geneviève Grossel, eds. Les Chansons de Thibaut IV, Roi de Navarre. Textes et Mélodies. Paris: Champion, forthcoming March 2018. ---- and Gregory Heyworth, eds., with Frank Coulson. Les Eschéz d’Amours : A Critical Edition of the Poem and its Latin Glosses. Vol 1. Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts 10. Leiden : Brill Publishers, 2013. • Excerpts from reviews: o “[U]nlike the Roman de la rose, most of Les eschéz has been nearly completely inaccessible to scholars and thus narrowly studied. With this terrific edition, one made possible only by recent technology, the poem might soon take its proper ‘place in the canon of the great works of the Middle Ages’ (3)” Jenny Adams, Speculum 90 (2015): 258–9. o “The first volume of a much-needed complete edition of Les Eschéz d’Amours, this constitutes a marriage of deep, careful scholarship and cutting edge digital D. E. O’Sullivan – 3 technologies” Tamsyn Rose-Steel, Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures 4.2 (2015): 298-300. Edited volumes ---- and Laine Doggett, eds. Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies. Suffolk, UK: Boydell and Brewer, March 2016. • Excerpts from reviews: o “Medievalists and readers generally should be grateful to the editors of this volume for assembling such a rich groups of essays dedicated to—in the words of Elizabeth Robertson—“this groundbreaking leader in feminist thinking” (246). Not only do the contributions attest the originality and breadth of E. Jane Burns’ oeuvre, but they also demonstrate the continuing vigor of feminist theory and critical study tout court,” Stephen Nichols, H-France Review 17 (2017), 1-6. o “By every measure, E. Jane Burns is a founding mother of medieval feminist scholarship. [...]She richly deserves a high-quality Festschrift, and I am happy to say that she has received one,” Felice Lifshitz, Medieval Feminist Forum 52.1 (2016): 104-106. o “As testimony to the powerful influence brought to the profession by Burns, examples of inspiration and influence appear throughout, including several by notable French medievalist feminists. Each essay reflects only a limited aspect of Burns's wide-ranging research interests over her long, evolving career,” Jane Chance, The Medieval Review, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/22962/28831 ---- and Laurie Shepard, eds. Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France. Gallica 28. Suffolk, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2013. • Excerpts from reviews: o “In her work, Bruckner has tended to privilege an open hermeneutics over a closed one, the play of multiple perspectives over the push for a final verdict. The authors of this volume do well to follow in her footsteps as they explore as elusive a concept as cortoisie/cortesia,” Huw Grange, Medium Aevum 83 (2014): 183. o “It will prove invaluable to any reader interested in the courtly literature of medieval France,” William Paden, The Medieval Review, (http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/) o “[T]he eighteen essays within contain a substantial quantity of rigorous and exciting work, with considerable appeal for readers who may have no personal connection with their dedicatee,” Alex Stuart, French Studies (2014): 92-93. o “In an era when academic presses insist on disguising Festschriften (if they publish them at all) as anything but what they are, D. S. Brewer should be applauded for honoring the genre with so robust an example. Indeed, the volume demonstrates how coherent the breed can be when orchestrated effectively,” Stephen G. Nichols, H-France Reviews, 2014. o “Ce volume de Mélanges offre un panorama assez large de l’étude de la courtoisie – toute littéraire – au Moyen Âge et est un hommage justifié à l’enseignante et au chercheur qu’est Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner,” Jacques Paviot, Francia-Recensio 2015/2. ----, ed. Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: A Fundamental Thought Paradigm of the Premodern World. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Thought, 10. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012. • Excerpts from reviews: o “The topics covered offer a compelling re-orientation of medieval chess for readers and students new to chess history, and the expansions of Murray and other new paradigms and materialities will encourage more scholars to study the wealth of chess literature and its cultural contexts,” Serina Patterson, American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain, 2013. o “Chess has a millennial history and is prized by historians for what its study can contribute to an understanding of human culture. Chess in the Middle Ages and early Modern Age: A Fundamental Thought Paradigm of the Premodern World, published in the prestigious series D. E. O’Sullivan – 4 “Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture,” marks a distinct advance in that study,” Tim Redman, Chess Life (April 2014): 12. Journal Articles ----. “Pistoleta and the Art of Courtly Suffering,” in progress and intended for submission to Tenso.