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Dr. Judy Kem
Associate Professor of French
Office: Greene 518
Phone: (336) 758-5349
E-mail: kem@wfu.edu
Curriculum vitae
Education
- Ph.D., Romance Languages (French), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985
- M.A., French, University of Louisville, 1980
- B.A., French and History, Western Kentucky University, 1975
Research Interests
- The Querelle des femmes in Late Medieval and Renaissance French Literature
- The Trojan Legend in Late Medieval and Renaissance French Literature
- Works by the following French authors of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: François Villon, Martin Le Franc, Jean Molinet, Symphorien Champier, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Marguerite de Navarre
- French Cinema
Courses Taught
- French 213: Introduction to French Literature
- French 221: Translation
- French 360/660: Cinema and Society
- Humanities 385: Legends of Troy
Departmental Activities
- Director, Semester in France (Dijon, 2006)
- Co-organizer, Romance Language Film Symposium (RLFS 2006)
- Director, Teaching and Learning Center (2005-2008)
Honors and Awards
- William C. Archie Grant for Faculty Excellence (for research at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris ), May-June 2005.
- Mellon Faculty Seminar ("Multicultural Harmony, Symbiosis, and Hostility: Learning from the Example of Medieval Spain") participant (stipend to travel in Spain with the aim of preparing a new course of instruction), Spring and Summer 2005.
- R. J. Reynolds Leave, Wake Forest University , Fall 1998.
Representative Publications
- "Est-ce qu' On connaît la chanson ? An Approach to Teaching the Langage commun of a French Musical," French Review (forthcoming).
- Symphorien Champier. La Nef des dames vertueuses . Critical edition by Judy Kem. Paris : Honoré Champion, 2006.
- "Malebouche, Metaphors of Misreading, and the Querelle des femmes in Molinet's Roman de la rose moralisé (1500)," Fifteenth-Century Studies 31 (2006): 123-143.
- "Symphorien Champier and Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames ," Romance Notes 45.2 (Winter 2005) : 225-234.
- Jean Lemaire de Belges' Les Illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye: The Trojan Legend in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance. New York: Lang, 1994.
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