Stefanie A. Goyette (413) 896-8670 New York University 38 Columbus Ave
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Stefanie A. Goyette (413) 896-8670 New York University 38 Columbus Ave. Apt. 1 Liberal Studies Somerville, MA 02143 726 Broadway, 6th Floor [email protected] New York, NY 10003 stefanieagoyette.com Current Appointment New York University – Liberal Studies, New York, NY Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow August 2015-present Previous Appointment Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Lecturer in French August 2013-May 2015 Education Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Ph.D., French Literature November 2012 • Concentration in Medieval Literature • Secondary Field in Visual and Environmental Studies (Film) May 2008 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH • Institute of French Cultural Studies – French Literature, Culture, and Food Summer 2013 • Institute of French Cultural Studies – French Literature, Culture, and Religion Summer 2009 Bryn Mawr College Summer Institute of French Studies at Avignon, France Summer 2006 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD B.A., French and Art History May 2005 • Honors Thesis: Représentations de la violence et de la sexualité dans le film et le roman de l’extrême contemporain Book Project Location/Locution: Speech and the Evidence of the Body in the Old French Fabliaux Dissertation Indiscriminate Bodies: The Old French Fabliaux in Relation to Thirteenth-Century Medical and Religious Cultures Director: Virginie Greene. Readers: Tom Conley and Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins) Publications “Counterfeiting Monstrosity: Secrets, Violence, and Speech in the ‘Lai of Graelent’ and Two Old French Fabliaux.” Forthcoming in Preternature (Winter 2017). “Milk or Blood?: Generation and Speech in Chrétien de Troyes’ Perceval ou le Conte du graal.” Forthcoming in Arthuriana 26.4 (Winter 2016). Stefanie Goyette – CV 2 “Modeling Subjecthood in MS Paris, BNF fr. 2168: Marie de France’s Lay of ‘Yonec,’ ‘The Lay of Narcisus and Dané,’ and ‘Aucassin and Nicolette.’” Le Cygne. 3rd Series, Vol. 2 (Fall 2015). “An Intemperate Map: Orientation and Disorientation in the Old French Fabliau ‘Les trois Dames de Paris.’” French Studies 69.2 (April 2015). Review of Le Lai du conseil, ed. and trans. by Elena Grigoriu Brînduşa, et al. (Liverpool: Liverpool Online Series, 2013). The Medieval Review (May 2016). Review of Katherine A. Brown, Boccaccio’s Fabliaux: Medieval Short Stories and the Function of Reversal (Gainsville: UPF, 2014). The Medieval Review (May 2015). “Tel serés vous: Watriquet de Couvin’s Old French Fabliaux and the Contemptus mundi.” Currently revising for resubmission. “Teaching Literature Comparatively with Group Podcasting Assignments.” In preparation. “Medical Metaphors and Spiritual Healing in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogue on Miracles.” In preparation. Conference Presentations and Guest Lectures “Dead Poet’s Society: Didactic Hauntings in the Old French Dits of Watriquet de Couvin.” The 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 2017. “Live Nude Girls: Uncanny Visions in the Old French Fabliaux ‘The Priest Who Peeped’ and ‘The Castrated Lady’.” Southeast Medieval Conference (SeMA), October 2016. “Cannibalism as Erasure in the Old French ‘Lai of Philomena’.” The International Medieval Congress at Leeds, July 2016. “Desire for Desire: Refractions of Objecthood in Aucassin and Nicolette.” The 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 2016. “Counterfeiting Monstrosity: Knowledge and Ignorance in the ‘Lai of Graelent’ and the Fabliau ‘La Sorisete des Estopes’ (‘The Rag Mouse’).” The 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 2015. “The Monster Within: Gender, Conquest, and Cooption of Non-Christian Identity in Aliscans.” Southeast Medieval Assocation (SeMA) Conference, October 2014. “Fasting and Eucharistic Desire in the Old French Ovidian lais and the lais of Marie de France.” The 49th Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 2014. “Milk or Blood?: Food Hierarchies and Gender in Chrétien de Troyes’ Perceval ou le Conte du graal.” New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, March 2014. “Waste Management: Communal (In)digestion in the Old French Fabliau ‘Les trois Dames de Paris’.” The 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 2013. “Proust and the Pose of Early Photography.” Proust and the Arts: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Centennial of Swann's Way. Harvard University, April 2013. “The Late Antique and Medieval Bases of Food Culture: Roots for the Reception of Chocolate.” Guest Lecture in “Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food” at Harvard University, Feb. 2012. “Travestied Words, Illegible Genders: Transvestism and Interpretation in the Old French Fabliaux.” Northeast Popular Culture Association (NePCA) Annual Conference, October 2012. Stefanie Goyette – CV 3 “Of Partridges and Keyholes: The Substitution of Food for Sex in Three Old French Fabliaux.” The 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 2012. “Is There a Danger of Speaking Sex in the French Fabliaux?” The 11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Mysterious Things,” March 2010. “Catherine Breillat’s Romance - The Mirror and the Female Gaze.” Harvard Graduate Conference at the Mahindra Humanities Center, April 2006. Chaired Panels “Cooking and Eating in The Canterbury Tales.” The International Medieval Congress at Leeds, July 2016. “Parallel Worlds: Monstrous Voyages, Monstrous Visitors.” Session sponsored by MEARCSTAPA. The 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 2014. “Rara Avis: Avian Erotics in Medieval and Pre-Modern French Literature.” 44th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention. March 2013. Published Translations Scheinfeigel, Maxime. “Robert Gardner and Jean Rouch: Shared Visions.” In Looking with Robert Gardner: Essays on His Films and Career. Edited by Rebecca Meyers, William Rothman, and Charles Warren. Forthcoming (2016) in the Horizons of Cinema series by SUNY Press. Christin, Anne-Marie. “Visible/Legible: An Iconic Typology of Writing.” In Sign and Design: Script as Image in a Cross-Cultural Perspective (300-1600 CE). Edited by Miriam Bedos-Rezak and Jeffrey Hamburger. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2016. Various. Proust and the Arts. Proceedings of a conference of the same title held at Harvard University in April 2013. Edited by Christie McDonald and François Proulx. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Gibson, Kelly. “La Vie monastique dans les vies de Saint Gall récrites au IXe siècle.” In Normes et hagiographie. Actes du colloque international de Lyon. Edited by M.C. Isaïa and T. Granier. Hagiologia Series. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. Bluher, Dominique. “Ross McElwee’s Voice.” In Landscapes of the Self: The Cinema of Ross McElwee. Edited by Efran Cuevas and Alberto N. Garcia. Madrid: Ediciones Internacionales Universitarias, 2007. Teaching Experience LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND FILM: Cultural Foundations I: “Desire” (New York University, Liberal Studies, Core Curriculum) • Faculty Fellow – Fall 2016 o Design and teach a biweekly foundations course in world cultures, arts, and literatures, including works from the Paleolithic through Late Antiquity. o Focus on “Desire” as the primordial motive force of Eros; as desire for knowledge and wisdom; as polymorphous sexual and romantic desire; as desire for wholeness from fragmentation; as friendship and a thirst for glory; and, above all, as the desire to create art. Stefanie Goyette – CV 4 o Emphasis on reading and visual analysis, analytical writing, expressing opinions and building arguments, and awareness of cultural identity and difference. Cultural Foundations II: “Voyages and Voyagers” (New York University, Liberal Studies, Core Curriculum) • Faculty Fellow – Spring 2016 and 2017 o Designed and taught a biweekly foundations course in world cultures, arts, and literatures, including works from Late Antiquity through the Early Modern period. o Focus on “Voyages and Voyagers” in the sense of temporal and geographic travel in art and literature, and as a metaphor for contact with the creations of temporally or geographically distant cultures. o Emphasis on sites of cultural contact, comparative perspectives, and visual and cultural literacy. Cultural Foundations 1: “Staying Alive” (New York University, Liberal Studies, Core Curriculum) • Faculty Fellow – Fall 2015 o Focus on “Staying Alive” as in mortality, divinity, and artistic creation, and in terms of the cultural and material conditions that permit works of art to survive into the present. Autour de la table du Moyen Âge au 18e siècle: A Survey of French Literature through Food (Northeastern University, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) • Course head – Spring 2014 o Designed and taught a biweekly course with food and the meal as unifying themes. o Graded all student work (in French). Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food (Harvard, African and African-American Studies) • Teaching Assistant to Prof. Carla Martin – Spring 2013 o Special focus on the analysis of food culture in relation to class, race, and gender. o Emphasis on digital technologies for presenting research, including Timeline JS and Storify. The Perfect Tale – The Art of Storytelling in Medieval France (Harvard, Core Curriculum) • Teaching Fellow to Prof. Virginie Greene – Spring 2009 o Taught two weekly discussion sections; graded student work. o Special emphasis on questions of translation, authorship, and medieval culture. The Art of Film (Harvard, Core Curriculum