Gerald Seaman

 

Gerald Seaman

 

Education

  • Ph.D., Stanford University, 1992, medieval French literature
  • M.A., Stanford University, 1990, French literature
  • B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, political science, international relations, French

International Education

  • Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 1990-1991
  • Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Aix-en-Provence, 1984-1985 

 

 

 

Recent Publications

Book reviews:

  • Bradford Lee Eden, ed.  Middle-earth Minstrel:  Essays on Music in Tolkien.  (Jefferson, N.C. and London:  McFarland & Co., 2010).  Tolkien Studies 8 (June 2011):  127-30.
  • Heidi Steimel and Friedhelm Schneidewind, eds.  Music in Middle-earth.  (Zurich and Jena:  Walking Tree Publishers, 2010).  Tolkien Studies 8 (June 2011):  120-26.
  • Stratford Caldecott & Thomas Honegger, eds., Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings:  Sources of Inspiration.  (Zurich and Jena:  Walking Tree Publishers, 2008).  Tolkien Studies 6 (June 2009):  294-299. 

Books and Articles:

  • “Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli,” Patricia Vilches and Gerald Seaman, eds. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007.
  • “The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment.” Michael Drout, ed. New York and London: Routledge, 2006. Entries on: Arthurian Literature, Old French Literature, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” Lúthien, Romances: Middle English and French, France and French Culture, French Language
  • “Mellin de Saint-Gelais.” “Sixteenth Century French Writers.” Megan Conway, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, Washington, D.C., and London: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2006. 378-383.
  • “Reassessing Chrétien’s Elusive Vanz,” “Arthurian Literature,” Vol. 20 (2003): 1-29.
  • “Pardon My French: Reflections on Language and Culture,” “Lawrence Today” (Summer 2002): 19-21.
  • “Chrétien de Troyes.” “The Literature of the French and Occitan Middle Ages: Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries.” Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi and Ian S. Laurie, eds. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 208. Detroit, Washington, D.C., and London: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1999. 72-85.
  • “The French Myth of Narcissus: Some Medieval Refashionings, " "Disputatio: An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages." Vol 3: Translation, Transformation and Transubstantiation in the Late Middle Ages (1998): 19-33. Northwestern University Press.
  • “Signs of a New Literary Paradigm: The ‘Christian’ Figures of Chrétien de Troyes.” “Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives.” Critical Studies 10. Hugo Keiper, Christoph Bode, and Richard J. Utz, eds. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 1997. 87-109.
  • “Sept questions à propos du ‘Chevalier de la Charrette,’ “Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie.” BAND 108 Heft 5/6 (1992): 443-459.
  • “Literature and the Middle Time.” “Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Essays on Medieval Europe.” Online. Available: http://eawc.evansville.edu/essays/seaman.htm.  30 August 1996.
  • Editorial Board, “Constructions 1992: Sensations.” Michelle R. Wright, ed. Stanford, Calif., 1992. (A journal of literary criticism published by graduate students and indexed on the MLA’s International Bibliography).
  • “Constructions 1990: Special Interdisciplinary Issue.” Gerald Seaman and Reginald McGinnis, eds. Stanford, Calif., 1990.