Emanuel J. Mickel
• Professor of French
• Chair, Department of French & Italian
Office: Ballantine Hall
621
Office phone: 855-8253
Email: mickel @indiana.edu
Chair's office: Ballantine Hall 642
Chair's phone:
855-5458
Email: fritchr @indiana.edu
Research areas:
Medieval Romance, The Rose; allegory and persona in European literature; 19th-century literature, classic tradition, ekphrastic writings and painting
Education:
- BA, French and History, Louisiana State University, 1959
- MA, Romance Languages, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1961
- PhD, French Language and Literature, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1965
Background:
My research has been in both Medieval French literature, especially the twelfth and thirteenth century, and in nineteenth-century literature and painting. I have written widely in both periods including books on poetry, Fromentin, and Jules Verne in the nineteenth century, and volumes on Marie de France, the Chanson de Roland and The Old French Crusade Cycle. Articles on Gautier, Stendhal, Merimée, Baudelaire, Zola, Huysmans, Fromentin, Barbey d’Aurevilly and French painting highlight my work in the later period; works on the Jeu d’Adam, Tristan en Prose, Chrétien de Troyes, the Chanson de Roland, Aucassin et Nicolette, Marie de France, and the verse romance-history known as The Old French Crusade Cycle represent the Middle Ages. In recent years I have focused on the manuscript work, historical study, and romance analysis necessary for the edition of the ten-volume Old French Crusade Cycle. I am now engaged in a study of the linking of allegory, persona, and personification in the formation of western European literature. In terms of the Middle Ages this should lead to a study of the Roman de la Rose.
Selected Awards:
- NEH Awards, 1980-83; 1984-86
- Lilly Open Fellowship, 1981-82
- Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, 1997
- Visiting Scholar, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, Fall 2006
- The
Reception and Transmission
of the Works of Marie
de France, 2003
(Book written in honor
of my work on Marie
de France)
Courses recently taught:
- A Question of Love - classic foundations of European literature
- Nineteenth Century Painting and Literature
- Nineteenth Century Novel
- Seminar on the Roman de la Rose
Publication highlights:
Books
The Old French Crusade Cycle. Volumes 1-10. Co-editor with Professor Jan Nelson. University of Alabama Press, 1977-2003.
Enfances Godefroi and Le Retour de Cornumarant. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999.
Ganelon Treason and the Chanson de Roland. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989
Articles and book chapters
“The Satirical Tradition
in Aucassin
et Nicolette” Romance
Philology 62 (2008): 1-21.
“The Shadow of Oedipus
in the Tristan
en Prose” Medievalia 25 (2004): 1–23.
“Mercury’s Philologia
and Erec’s Enide” Romance
Philology 56 (2002): 1–22.
“Enfances
Godefroi: The Making of Popular History” Romania 116 (1998): 148-69.
“Transmission and
Transformation: Uses of
Textual Expression” in
Kaleidoscope, ed. Graham
Falconer and Mary Donaldson
Evans. Toronto: Centre d’Etudes
Romaniques (1996): 111-30.
“The Manuscripts of
the Old French Crusade Cycle” Romania 115 (1997): 434-50.
“Inclination mondaine,
trahison et impiété,
ou les germes de la culpabilité dans
la littérature médiévale” Travaux
de Littérature 8
(1995): 25-41.
