(with Glenn W. Most): special issue of Materiali e discussioni
52(2004), "Re-Presenting Virgil" in honor of Michael Putnam
Poets and Critics Read Vergil, ed. (Yale, 2001)
Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge, 1996) Reissued
in paper: 2006
Rhetorics of Reason and Desire: Vergil, Augustine and the Troubadours
(Cornell, 1988)
The French Chansons of Charles d'Orléans (Garland, 1986)
"Balade" reprinted in Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Eighth
edition. New York, 2005. Pp. 1421-22
Recent Articles and Chapters in Refereed Scholarly Journals and Volumes
"Why Vergil is More Influential than Ovid." Histories in Dispute.
Eds. Paul Allen Miller and Charles Platter. Pp. 269-72.
"'A Curious Appearance in the Air': Lyric Irreducibility and the Cheshire
Cat," in Being There Together: Essays in Honor of Michael C. J. Putnam."
Eds. Philip Thibodeau and Harry Haskell. Afton Historical Society Press, 2003.
Chapter 16 (pp. 275-86).
"The Straits of Empire: Sicily from Vergil to Dante," in Medieval
Constructions in Gender and Identity: Essays in Honor of Joan M. Ferrante.
Ed. Teodolinda Barolini (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
2006. Pp. 133-150.
"What's Love Got to Do with It?: Abbot Suger and the Renovation of
St.-Denis," in Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert
W. Hanning. Eds. Robert Stein and Sandra P. Prior (University of Notre
Dame Press, 2005). Pp. 68-88.
"Meta-Textuality: The Boatrace as Turning Point in Aeneid 5"
New England Classical Journal 29 (2002) 69-81.
"Motivational Forces in the Aeneid: Pietas and Furor."
In Vergil's Aeneid: MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature.
Ed. W.S. Anderson and L. N. Quartarone. New York: MLA, 2002. Pp. 46-52.
"Pallas/Athena: In and Out of the Aeneid." In Athena in the
Ancient World. Eds. S. J.Deacy and Alexandra Villing. Leiden: Brill, 2001.
Pp. 331-348.
"Veiled Allusions: Aeneas, Augustine and Dante at Ostia." Classica
et Mediaevalia 39 (1998) 143-161.
"The Polyvalence of Pallas in the Aeneid." Arethusa 32
(1999)149-163.
"Rhetorics and Hermeneutics in Troubadour Poetry." In The Troubadours:
An Introduction. Eds. Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1999. Chapter 10 (pp. 164-180).
"Varium et Mutabile: The Problem of Authority in Book Four of the Aeneid."
In Reading the Aeneid. Ed. Christine Perkell. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1999: Chapter 4 (pp. 80-95).
"Reg(u)arding the Text." In Chaucer's French Contemporaries:
The Poetry/Poetics of Self and Tradition. Ed. R. Barton Palmer. New York:
AMS, 1999. Pp. 293-313.
"The Topos of Discretion in Troubadour Poetry." Romanische
Forschungen 112 (2000) 180-91.
"The Judgment of Aeneas, The Judgment of Paris and the Roman d'Eneas."
In Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid Through Chaucer.
Ed. James J. Paxson. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1998. Pp.
27-38.
Current Research Projects
Sicily and the Poetics of Empire from Vergil to Dante
Other Professional Activities
2007 Willson Center Grant
2007 Senior Faculty Research Grant, UGA
2005 UGA President’s Venture Fund for international troubadour conference
1994 State of the Art Conference award, Office of the Senior Vice President
for Academic Affairs and Provost, UGA
1993 Resident Scholar, The Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center,
Bellagio, Italy
1992-93 Bunting Fellow, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College
1984-85 Mellon Faculty Fellow in Comparative Literature, Harvard University
1981-82 Rome Prize Fellow in Post-Classical Humanistic Studies, American
Academy in Rome
