Vice President and Dean of Faculty
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8109

E-mail: seamang@ripon.edu

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

• Brill Companion to Machiavelli, Patricia Vilches and Gerald Seaman, eds. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. (forthcoming)
• 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, CA, 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, CA 1990.