Christopher
Callahan
Associate Professor of French/Spanish
I received my Ph.D. in French Linguistics,
with a
minor in Medieval Studies, from
My research focuses on lyric poetry as a
performed
genre. As it combines narratology and
music, my work has extended to include narrative as well as lyrico-narrative
verse, the motet, and most recently, rhetoric and drama.
I am also an avid reader in art history,
particularly Romanesque and Gothic iconography, and have developed a
Web site
for instruction in that field.
I resided
in
I have
twenty years of experience as a translator. In addition to
handling written documents of all type, I have worked as a simultaneous
interpreter for the Steering Committee of the International Special
Olympics,
the International Special Olympics games, the Executive Committee of L’Arche Internationale,
two
academic conferences at the University of
Notre Dame,
and most recently, for the
Outside
of the academy, I am a member of a local Irish band, Bloomsday (www.bloomsdayband.com),
to which I contribute fiddle, harp and harmony vocals. Recent credits
include
two Chicago Celtic festivals and a program for WILL Television, in
addition to
our regular venue of regional festivals. The St. Patrick Society of
Courses
Taught
FR 101 and 102 – Elementary French I and II
FR 201 and 203 – Intermediate French I and II
FR 302 – Advanced Expression: The Written
Medium
FR 303 – Introduction to Literature I
FR 315 – French Civilization from Roman Gaul
to
the Renaissance
FR 405 – Studies in Medieval and Renaissance
Literature
HUM 102 – The World of Ideas 500-1500
HUM 270 – The Plantagenet World – France
and
LC 275 – Heroic Poetry in Performance
GW 100- The Once and Future Myth: King Arthur
in
Modern Continuation
Français 315.
La civilisation I
Humanities 270. The
Plantagenet World: France and England 1150-1400
Other Web
Sites
Recent
Scholarship
Monographs
With S.N. Rosenberg. Les Chansons de Colin
Muset.
Textes et mélodies. Paris: Honoré
Champion (Classiques Français du Moyen Age), 2005.
With S.N. Rosenberg. Les
Chansons de Colin Muset en français
moderne. Paris: Honoré Champion (Traductions des Classiques
Français du
Moyen Age), 2005.
Articles
“Subjective Identity and
Collective Conscience in the Songs of Colin Muset.”
In J. Blevins, ed. Dialogism and Lyric
Self-Fashioning: Voices of a Genre. Susquehanna University Press, forthcoming.
“Tracking Robin, Marion and the Virgin Mary:
Musical/Textual Interlace in the Pastourelle Motet.” In
Fresco and Pfeffer, eds. Studies
in Old French Language, Literature and Music in Honor of Samuel
N. Rosenberg. Summa Publications, forthcoming.
“Christine de Pizan’s Dit de la pastoure,
Pastoral Poetry, and the Poetics of Loss.” Le Moyen
Français 59 (2006), forthcoming.
“Hybrid Discourse and
Performance in the Old French Pastourelle.” French Forum
27.1 (2002), 1-22.
“Lyric Discourse and
Female Vocality: On the Unsilencing of
Silence.” Arthuriana, 12.1
(2002): 123-131.
“Canon Law, Primogeniture
and
the Marriage of Ebain and Silence.” Romance
Quarterly, 49.1 (2002): 12-20.
“Music in Medieval Medical Practice:
Speculations
and Certainties.” College Music
Symposium 40 (2000), pp. 151-164.
Recordings
Pastourelle
Motets from the French Ars Antiqua. BYU:
The Chaucer Studio, forthcoming.
Performed by The Evelyn Consort, J. Scott
Ferguson,
director
Old French Diction Component, Liner Notes and
Translations: C. Callahan
Or dient
et content et fabloient:
Four Centuries of Old French Verse. BYU: The Chaucer Studio, 2005.
Readers: C. Callahan, J. Trasker-Grimbert,
D. O’Sullivan, S.N. Rosenberg, H. Washburn.
Translations
Gabellieri, Emmanuel. “Reformulating
Platonism. The Trinitarian Metaxology
of
Simone Weil,” in Doering and Springsted, eds., The Christian
Platonism of Simone Weil. Proceedings of the
International
Colloquy.
Narcy, Michel. “Limits and
Significance of
Simone Weil’s Platonism,” in Doering and Springsted, ibid,
23-41.
Reviews
Haines, John. Eight
Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères.
Minnis, Alastair. Magister Amoris. The
Roman de la Rose and
Vernacular Hermeneutics.
Jewers, Caroline. Chivalric
Fiction and the History of the Novel.
Rosalind Field, ed. Tradition and Transformation in Medieval
Romance.