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 Associate Professor of French & Comparative
Literature
303 Dartmouth Hall
andrea.tarnowski@dartmouth.edu
(603) 646-1493
Primary Interests
Medieval and early modern French literature; historiography and literature;
translation; medieval and early modern women writers; critical theory;
Christine de Pizan and her contemporaries; the evolution of allegory; Italian
influence on French literature; Franco-English relations during the Hundred
Years' War.
Education
Ph.D, M.Phil, M.A. in French literature, Yale University
D.E.A., licence de lettres modernes, Université de Paris
III-Sorbonne Nouvelle
B.A. in French, Amherst College
Selected Courses
Speaking in Ideals: Late Medieval Allegory (French 45);
Dream and Prophecy in the Middle Ages (French 45); Christine de
Pizan (French 50); Medieval and Renaissance French Literature
(French 22); Literature and Life (French 10); The Road Taken
(COLT 7); Sex, Gender and Society (WGST 10); Humanities
II
Selected Publications
- Meaning and Its Objects: Material Culture in Medieval and Early
Modern France. Co-edited with Margaret Burland and David
Laguardia. Yale French Studies 110 (Fall 2006).
- “Material Examples: Philippe de Mézières’ Order of the
Passion,” in Yale French Studies 110 (Fall 2006).
- “The Lessons of Experience and the Chemin de long estude,” in
Christine de Pizan: A Casebook. Edited by Barbara K.
Altmann and Deborah McGrady (Routledge, 2003); 181-97.
- Le Chemin de longue étude de Christine de Pizan, edition and
modern French translation (Livre de Poche, 2000).
- “Unity and the Epistre au roi Richart,” Medievalia et
Humanistica 26 (1999); 63-77.
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