Scholars@Duke
Helen Solterer

Helen Solterer

Professor of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
hsolt@duke.edu
Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
217B Language Center, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Wednesdays, 5-6 pm.
& by appt.  

Selected Presentations & Appearances

Initiations into French: An Update, 2022 - International Congress on Medieval Studies · May 2022 Lecture
Anachrony & The Rights of Premodern Fiction Today · January 2022 International Meeting or Conference MLA,
The Time Has Come: Christine de Pizan and Edith Thomas, Our Contemporaries? · January 2021 International Meeting or Conference MLA,
The Travail of Political Visionary Writing: Christine de Pizan and other Humanists at Work · October 2019 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Toronto,
Another Pre-modern North : Navigating the Inuit Case - Merrilees Lecture · November 2016 Invited Talk University of Toronto,
Initiations into French: An Update, 2022 - International Congress on Medieval Studies · May 2022 Lecture
Anachrony & The Rights of Premodern Fiction Today · January 2022 International Meeting or Conference MLA,
The Time Has Come: Christine de Pizan and Edith Thomas, Our Contemporaries? · January 2021 International Meeting or Conference MLA,
The Travail of Political Visionary Writing: Christine de Pizan and other Humanists at Work · October 2019 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Toronto,
Another Pre-modern North : Navigating the Inuit Case - Merrilees Lecture · November 2016 Invited Talk University of Toronto,
Schwob alias Villon - Creating is Remembering: Poetry Books, 2016-1401 · June 2, 2016 - June 4, 2016 Other Duke University, Duke University

This presentation was my contribution to the international meeting organized as the culmination of the Francophone Digital Humanities project, "Making Medieval Poetry", of which I was the PI.
Amériques prémodernes? Départ pour le Grand Nord · October 2015 Invited Talk Université de Paris 10 , Paris-Nanterre
“Villon, Modern Poet, Digital Actor.” · May 2015 Broadcast Appearance Albertine Book Store, New York, French Cultural Services, Embassy of France

With Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Université de Paris IV
Nancy Regalado, David Georgi, New York University

http://livestream.com/frenchembassy/francois-villon-modern-poet
“Travail théâtral et mémoire du médiéval,” · December 8, 2012 Lecture Université d’Aix-Marseille, France
“A Timely Villon,” · December 8, 2012 Lecture Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo
“A Roundtable: Medieval Roles for Modern Times.” · December 8, 2012 Lecture University of Virginia
Enrolling Medieval Culture: Politics, Performance, Public Life · November 1, 2011 Lecture University of Toronto
Un Moyen Âge républicain. Théâtre et politique · March 1, 2011 Lecture Université Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV
Archives et éphémères : à la recherche de la théâtralité prémoderne · March 1, 2011 Lecture Université Denis Diderot—Paris VII
“Parcours d’un militant de théâtre,” · November 1, 2010 Lecture Université de Tours, France
3 Paradoxes of Medieval Performance: Chartres 1935-1945,” · April 1, 2010 Lecture The Medieval Academy Yale University
Gustave Cohen, Moussa Abadi, and Medieval Role-Playing” · April 1, 2010 Lecture University of Missouri
“Medieval Theater & the Battle for the French Third Republic” · March 1, 2010 Lecture Boston College
Théâtre et Résistance: Moussa Abadi et Odette Rosenstock Abadi” · June 22, 2009 Lecture Théâtre Ouvert, Paris
Forays in Cultural History · November 29, 2008 Lecture M.L.A. San Francisco
Medieval Roles for Modern Times · November 29, 2008 Lecture University of Michigan
Theater and Resistance · November 29, 2008 Lecture Twentieth- & Twenty-First-Century French Colloquium, Georgetown University
Nicholai Evreinov & The Art of Medieval Role-Play · November 29, 2008 Lecture Medieval Academy, University of British Columbia

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Panelist - James Joyce Remembered, edition 2022, Book Launch · March 2022 Editorial Activities Museum of Literature, Dublin flag Ireland

Service to the Profession

Member of Jury - HDR Thesis Defense, University of Paris-Sorbonne · January 28, 2022 Other
Editor - H-France Forum [Medieval] · June 2020 Editorial Activities H-France,
Co-Convenor - inTransit Arts of Migration Research group · January 2016 Other
Member, Jury of Book Prize - Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies · January 2016 - June 2016 Editorial Activities New York University & University Consortium,
Principal Investigator of Research Project, International Conference Organizer - Creating is Remembering : Poetry Books 2016-1401 · July 2015 - June 2016 Event/Organization Administration Duke University, Duke Universtiy
Member of Jury - HDR Thesis Defense, University of Paris-Sorbonne · January 28, 2022 Other
Editor - H-France Forum [Medieval] · June 2020 Editorial Activities H-France,
Co-Convenor - inTransit Arts of Migration Research group · January 2016 Other
Member, Jury of Book Prize - Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies · January 2016 - June 2016 Editorial Activities New York University & University Consortium,
Principal Investigator of Research Project, International Conference Organizer - Creating is Remembering : Poetry Books 2016-1401 · July 2015 - June 2016 Event/Organization Administration Duke University, Duke Universtiy
HDR Thesis Defense, Member of Jury, University of Paris IV / College de France · December 9, 2013 - December 9, 2013 Other

Special Projects ; The HDR, Habilitation a diriger des recherches, is the equivalent of a tenure dossier review, but in the French system, requires a 4 hour oral exam in addition to a written report on the 1000 pp. dossier. I served on the jury of a young colleague in France, in December.
Chair, Jury of Book Prize - Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies · November 2013 - November 2014 Editorial Activities Duke University & University Consortium, Duke University
Evaluator : National Humanities Center · December 6, 2011 Editorial Activities
Evaluator : University of Pennsylvania Press · December 6, 2010 Editorial Activities
Evaluator of Manuscripts, : Cornell University Press · December 6, 2009 Editorial Activities

Service to Duke

Director, Center for French and Francophone Studies · May 2013 - September 2017 Other
National Humanities Center (University) · December 8, 2012 Committee Service
Exchange with Universities in France · September 2012 - May 2015 Other

Special Projects ; Negotiating and Putting into Place Visits with Paris VII colleagues Yannick Seité, with Jacqueline Waeber, Audiovisualities Lab [spring 2014] Céline Flécheux [ 2014-15]
Member of Jury . Chateaubriand Fellowship for Graduate Studies -- Embassy of France · December 6, 2010 - December 6, 2010 Other

Special Projects ; Evaluating some 100 Fellowship Applications of American Doctoral Students for Graduate Study in France Attending Meeting in Washington to Determine Recipients