Gilbert Chaitin published volume 44 of the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, his last as general editor, after a tenure of seven years. It includes an extensive tribute to René Wellek, one of the founders of the discipline of comparative literature in the United States, as well as articles on topics as diverse as the politics of French music, the social meaning of Japanese comic books for women, and the relations between literature and science from antiquity to the Renaissance. In the volume there is an essay by Chaitin’s IUB departmental colleague Eric MacPhail on the science of history in the Renaissance.

Edoardo Lèbano’s article "The Three Longest Duels in Italian Chivalric Literature" recently appeared in the volume The Flight of Ulysses, published by Annali d’Italianistica. He is currently working on a new school edition of Pirandello’s play Pensaci, Giamcomino!, to be published by Soleil Publishing Co. of Toronto. The first English edition of Luigi Pulci’s epic Morgante, for which Lèbano has prepared the introduction with extensive notes and critical commentary, was presented in early April of 1998 at the annual meeting of the American Association for Italian Studies. Published by IU Press, this book is part of the collection "Indiana Masterpiece Editions," edited by Mark Musa. Lèbano and Max Creech (ABD) have just completed a new survey on the teaching of Italian in U.S. institutions of higher learning to appear in a forthcoming issue of Italica.

In August, Chair Rosemary Lloyd gave a paper at a 10-day conference on Mallarme, held at the chateau of Cerisy in Normandy. This photo shows Lloyd at that conference with the critic and poet Jean-Luc Steinmetz, on whose poetry she has just published an article in the Australian Journal of French Studies.

In April, Rosemary Lloyd visited Sayeeda Mamoon, PhD’96, at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion to give a Phi Beta Kappa lecture. She and her husband, Paul, went to Australia in June to celebrate Paul’s parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. While there, she gave a paper at the University of Melbourne. In August, she gave a paper at a 10-day conference on Mallarmé, held in the chateau of Cerisy in Normandy. Of her experience there she writes: "The beautiful rural settings, the extraordinary difference between high tide and low tide on the couple of occasions when we were able to go to the seaside, the castle buildings, and the home cooking all combined with the papers themselves to make a very memorable occasion. While there, I was also able to catch up with critic and poet Jean-Luc Steinmetz, on whose poetry I have just published an article in the Australian Journal of French Studies." In October, Lloyd gave a paper at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, at which Juliana Starr, PhD’95, chaired a session. During the first semester, Lloyd, "with a great deal of help," created a short CD-ROM based on Baudelaire’s poem "Les Phares," in which students can see paintings and statues by the artists Baudelaire mentions as they hear the poem read – "they can choose between a female voice (supplied by Sylvie Vanbaelen) and a male voice (supplied by Denis Augier)." The CD-ROM also includes a detailed lexicon and encyclopedia entries for all the artists, as well as assignments. It is the first draft of a much more detailed CD-ROM, which Lloyd will devote to 19th-century transpositions d’art. In the fall, Lloyd taught a college topics course, Exploring the Novel, for which she was awarded an instructional technology grant to create a Web site. The Web site includes various items of information, a detailed chronology, on-line connections to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the IU library catalog, as well as a glossary and suggestions for essay writing. The Lilly Library continues to be a rich resource for her research. This year she published two articles based on items in the collection: "Quelques manuscrits de Paul Verlaine," which appeared in the Revue Verlaine, examines the Verlaine manuscripts together with some annotations he made to published volumes of his poetry; "Letters of Stuart Merril," which she published jointly with Mylène Catel, PhD’97, appeared in Nineteenth-Century French Studies. Lloyd writes: "Merrill, who spent most of his adult life in France, wrote frequent letters to his mother in New York between the outbreak of war in 1914 to his death at the end of 1915. These letters, never before published, are a fascinating if appalling record of the first years of the war. In the article, Mylène and I have annotated and discussed a selection of the letters." This year, Lloyd was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, which will allow her to devote the whole of 1998 to research. She will use the time to complete her intellectual biography of Mallarmé. 1998 is the centenary of Mallarmé’s death, and Lloyd has been invited to various conferences devoted to him in this country, in Europe, and in Australia.

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