College of Arts and
Letters
East
Lansing, MI 48824-1112
(517) 353 - 0769 ext. 122
holderne@msu.edu
Education
Johns
Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD): Doctorate in Medieval French. Dissertation
entitled "In the Muses' Garden: Reminiscence and Consolation in the Works of
Christine de Pizan". Co-directors, Professors Stephen G. Nichols and Jacqueline
Cerquiglini-Toulet. (1993-2000)
Université de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland): Diplôme d'études supérieures: Au seuil de la Modernié: Co-directors, Professors Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet and Charles Méla. (1995-1996)
Yale College (New Haven, CT): Bachelor of Arts in Humanities. (1989-1993)
Packer Collegiate Institute (Brooklyn, NY). (1975-1989)
Summer Study
Johns
Hopkins Mellon Graduate Seminar in the Humanities: an interdisciplinary
seminar on ethical and political questions. Director, Professor Frances
Ferguson. (1995)
Dartmouth
College (Hanover, NH) : Édouard
Morot-Sir Institute on French Cultural Studies : a series of lectures and seminars on questions of memory
and "memory places" (lieux de
mémoire), with a focus on
pedagogy and the incorporation of these questions within French cultural
studies. (1994)
Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT) : "Scuola Italiana": intensive advanced courses in Italian literature, language, and conversation. (1990)
Professional
Experience
Michigan State University : Assistant Professor, French, Classics, and Italian (previously Romance and Classical Languages). (2002-present)
Johns
Hopkins Rose Project :
Team leader in an initiative to provide on-line access to virtual manuscript
copies of the Roman de la rose,
along with modern transcriptions and commentary. Particular focus on Getty, ms.
Ludwig XV 7. (http://rose.mse.jhu.edu) (
2005-2006)
Michigan State University : Visiting Assistant Professor, Romance and Classical Languages. (1999-2002)
Languages
French,
Italian, German, Latin, Old and Middle French, Provençal.
Publications
"Christine
voyeuse : le narcissisme philosophique", in a volume on Christine de Pizan:
Femme de sciences, femme de lettres.
Edited by Juliette Dor and Marie-Elisabeth Henneau. Paris:
Honoré-Champion. (forthcoming)
"Castles
in the Air?: The Prince as Conceptual Artist", in Healing the Body Politic:
the Political Thought of Christine de Pizan. Edited by Karen Green and Constant J. Mews. Turnhout, Belgium:
Brepols Press, 2005.
"Feminism and the Fall: Semiramis, Knowledge, and Sin
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance", in Essays in Medieval Studies 21 (2004).
"Compilation,
Commentary, and Conversation in Christine de Pizan", in Essays in Medieval
Studies 20 (2003).
"Fiction
and Truth in Ballad 15 of the Cent balades", in Contexts
and Continuities: Proceedings of the IVth International Colloquium on Christine
de Pizan (Glasgow 21-27 July 2000) published in honour of Liliane Dulac (Angus J. Kennedy, Rosalind Brown-Grant,
James C. Laidlaw, and Catherine M. Müller, eds.), Glasgow: University of
Glasgow Press.
"Christine
et ses 'bévues': Sens et portée de quelques assimilations abusives" in Au
Champ des escriptures: Actes du IIIe Colloque international sur Christine de
Pizan, Lausanne, 18-22 juillet 1998
(Eric Hicks, Diego Gonzalez, and Philippe Simon, eds.), Paris: Honoré-Champion: Études Christiniennes, 2000.
Co-edition
of three manuscripts of the Roman de la rose (Baltimore, Walters ms.143, New York,
Morgan ms. 948, and Oxford, Bodleian ms. Douce 195) : part of the Johns Hopkins
Rose Project, an initiative
to provide on-line access to virtual manuscript copies of the Roman de la
rose, along with modern
transcriptions and commentary. (http://rose.mse.jhu.edu) (1998-2001)
A review of Marilynn Desmond, ed. Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press (Medieval Cultures, Volume 14), 1998 : in Modern Language Notes 114, 4 (September 1999) and on-line in The Medieval Review (February 1999).
Academic
Fellowships and Honors
Michigan
State University : Intramural
Research Grant Project (IRGP): $20,000 to fund travel, as well as replacement
teaching, during a full year of research leave (2004-2005). The project is to
advance work on a book tentatively entitled, In the Muses' Garden: The
Consolation of Memory in Christine de Pizan. (2003)
Michigan
State University : College Fund for International
Travel (to Melbourne, Australia) : declined. (2002)
Johns
Hopkins University : Dean's Fellowship. (1998-1999)
École
normale supérieure : "Pension". (1996-1997)
Université
de Genève : "Bourse de la Faculté des Lettres". (1995-1996)
Yale
College : Mellon Fellowship, for a study on the notion of auctoritas in the Livre du chemin de long estude of Christine de Pizan. (1993)
Yale
College : Richter Fellowship, for the translation of ballads and rondeaux by
Christine de Pizan. (1992)
Goethe
Institut : Certificate of Proficiency in German language. (1991)
Yale
College : Department of Italian : prize for the best translation of a
poem: Eugenio Montale's "Alunna delle Muse". (1990
Lectures
Université de Paris 7 - Denis Diderot: "Christine, Boèce et saint Augustin: La consolation de la mémoire". (July 2006)
Medieval
Institute, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI): "Buried Treasure: A
Lost Text from the Quarrel of the Romance of the Rose". (May 2006)
Université de Liège (Belgium): "La
Philosophie dans le couvent: Une relecture du Dit de Poissy". (January 2005)
Midwest Conference on British Studies (East Lansing, MI): "Falling into the Vernacular in 12th Century
England". (October 2004)
Medieval
Institute, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI): "The Naked Truth in
Christine de Pizan". (May 2004)
Michigan
Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters : Grand Valley State University (Grand
Rapids, MI) : Invited lecture: "The Boundaries of Feminism in the Middle Ages
and Renaissance". (March 2004)
Northwestern
University (Evanston, IL) : Illinois Medieval Association: "Affairs of
the Heart: Semiramis and Feminism in the Middle Ages and
Renaissance". (February 2004)
Medieval
Institute, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI): "The Comedy of Life,
Death, and the Pursuit of Knowledge" at the 38th International Congress
on Medieval Studies. (May 2003)
Medieval
and Renaissance Consortium, Michigan State University: "A New Look at the
Prologue to the Advision Cristine". (April 2003)
Illinois Medieval Association, Chicago: "Compilation,
Commentary, and Conversation in Christine de Pizan". (February 2003)
Modern Language Association,
New York: "Giving as Good as You Get: Advising the Advisors in Late Medieval
France". (December 2002)
Medieval
Institute, Western Michigan University: "Christine de Pizan's Castles in the
Air" at the 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies. (May 2002)
Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA) :
Invited lecture: "The Rhetoric of Literary Criticism and Creation in the Middle
Ages". (January 2002)
Medieval
Institute, Western Michigan University: "Compilation as Innovation" at the 36th
International Congress on Medieval Studies. (May 2001)
University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) : Invited lecture: "'Writing like a Woman' in the Middle Ages". (February 2001)
Newberry Library (Chicago, IL) : "A Response to Grief: Consolation and Mutation in the Early Thought of
Christine de Pizan". (February 2001)
Michigan State University : Invited lecture: "The Changing Field
of Medieval Studies" in Professor Patricia Greene's seminar on Research
Methodology and Bibliography in the Romance Languages (ROM800). (October 2000)
University
of Glasgow : Invited lecture: "The Widow as Orphan in Ballad 15 of the Cent
balades" at the Fourth
International Christine de Pizan Symposium. (July 2000)
Medieval
Institute, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI): "Widowhood as an
Intellectual Ideal" at the 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies. (May 2000)
Medieval
and Renaissance Consortium, Michigan State University (E. Lansing, MI) :
Invited lecture: "Therapeutic Distance in Boethius and Christine de Pizan". (April 2000)
Wayne
State University (Detroit, MI) : Invited lecture: "Christine de Pizan and the
Consolation of Feminine Writing". (November 1999)
Université
de Lausanne : Invited lecture: "Les 'coquilles' de Christine: Des dédoublements
délibérés?" at the "Troisième colloque international des amis de Christine de
Pizan". (July 1998)
Université de Genève : Invited lecture: "De Guillaume de Conches à Christine de Pizan: Une esquisse des gloses sur les scenicae meretriculae de Boèce" at an international colloquium on "Les pratiques du commentaire: 1300-1600". (June 1996)
Service
Michigan
State University: Steering Committee for the design and proposal of the
Research Cluster for Global Literary and Cultural Studies. (
Michigan State University:
Arranged a departmental lecture by Tracy Adams (University of
Auckland, NZ): "Faux Semblant Goes A-Maying: Confession as
Deception in the Romance of the Rose"; the lecture supplemented a graduate
seminar on the Romance of the Rose. (
Michigan State University
Libraries: Friday Night Film Series: lectured on and led a discussion of Carl
DreyerÕs 1928 masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc (by invitation). (September 2003)
French MA program revisions. With the help of colleagues, I drafted a set of changes to the French MA Program, and steered them successfully through the University approval process. (Summer-Fall 2003)
Michigan
State University: Reader for a dissertation on "The Court Book of Mende" by Jan
Bulman (History). (
Arranged
a departmental lecture on medieval epistolarity by Katherine Kong (University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor); the lecture supplemented a graduate seminar on amorous
dialogue in the Middle Ages. (April 2003)
IRGP
proposal evaluator. (Fall 2003)
Michigan State University:
Reader for a dissertation on female Pgymalion figures in French literature by
Vicki Devries (French). (2002-present)
Michigan
State University: Center for Integrative Arts and Humanities Advisory
Committee. (2002-2004)
Michigan
State University: faculty mentor for a local high school student's job-shadow
(Jessica Walsh). (2002)
Michigan State University: Advisor to the
undergraduate Société française: the
Michigan State University: Curriculum development
for the undergraduate and graduate programs in French. Greater emphasis is now
placed on the cultural and historical context of literary production, and on
the legacy of Francophone, as well as French, literature. (1999-present)
Michigan State Univerity: Curriculum development for a proposed Freshman course on The Mediterranean World. An interdisciplinary look at the culture and history of the Mediterranean Basin, from the great empires of the ancient world to the current conflicts between North and South. (1999-present)
Michigan State University: Reader for a dissertation on "The Reception of Christine de Pizan in 15th Century England" by Dominique Tieman (English). (1999-2002)