Sarah Gordon

Medieval French romance and fabliaux; humor and comedy; literary representations
of consumption and food; parody, pastiche, and literary imitation; translation theory;
palaeography.

Book
Culinary Comedy in Medieval French Literature, Purdue University Press, 2006.
Recent Articles

"Calixthe Beyala's Culinary Images,” The Critic, 2006-7.

"Écrivaines médiévales,” Women in French, fall 2005.

"Kitchen Knights,” LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 16.2, 2005.

"Culinary Comedy in French Medieval Romance,” Medievalia et Humanistica 30, 2004.

Book Chapters
"Food Imagery, the Body, and Sexuality in the Old French Fabliaux,” in History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Classen, De Gruyter Press, forthcoming 2008.

"Consumption and the Construction of Identity in Medieval European Arthurian Romance,” 79-90, chapter in The European Dimensions of Arthurian Literature, ed. Besamusca, Brandsma, and Busby, Boydell & Brewer, 2007.

"Translation and the Cultural Transformation of a Hero: The Anglo-Norman and Middle English Romances of Guy of Warwick,” chapter in The Medieval Translator. Brepols press, 2007.

"Intertextuality and Comparative Approaches in Medieval Literature,” "Marxist Approaches to Medieval Studies,” "Courtly Romance,” "The Comic,” and "Parody,” articles in Concepts, Methods, and Trends in Medieval Studies, ed. Albrecht Classen, De Gruyter press, forthcoming.

"Humor and Household Relationships with Servants in French Farce,” in The Emotional Household in Europe 1400-1800, ed. Broomhall, Maddern, Sharpe, and Tarbin, Palgrave Press, forthcoming.

"Representations Aging and Disability in French Fabliaux and Farce Households,” in Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Classen, De Gruyter, 2006.

"Servanthood,” and "Folly and Madness,” entries for The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2007.

"Blindness,” "Deafness,” and "Lameness” articles on disability in Medieval Pilgrimage, ed. Craig, Brill Press, forthcoming 2007-8.

"François Villon, Le jargon, Le Testament,” article in The Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature, Routledge, 2006.

"Representations of Entomophagy in Literature,” in Insect Poetics, ed. Eric Brown, University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Presentations
Dr. Gordon has presented over twenty-five papers at international and national academic conferences, including the following representative presentations:
1. "The Sirventés and the Poetics of Peace and Service,” 42nd InternationalCongress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2007.

2. "Food Imagery, the Body, and Sexuality in the Old French Fabliaux,” Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance International Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson, April 2007.

3. "Disability and Identity in Medieval Literature,” Romance Studies Colloquium: "Literature Matters,” University of Oregon, Eugene, October 2006.

4. "Representations of Aging and Disability in French Farce,” Old Age in the Middle Ages and Renaissance International Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson, April 2006.

5. "Courtly Troublemakers and Uncourtly Disruption in Old French Verse Narrative,” also a session chair (invited) for "Troublemakers, Rebels, and Whistle Blowers in the Middle Ages I-II,” 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2006.

6. "Consumption and the Construction of Identity in European Arthurian Romance,” 21 st Triennial International Congress of the International Arthurian Society, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2005.

7. "Rendering and Recipes: Translation and Adaptation in Fourteenth-Century French and English Culinary Texts,” 40 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2005.

8. "Culinary Comedy in the Roman de Fergus and the Arthurian Tradition,” also a session chair for "Dissolving Masculinities in Medieval Literature,” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference on "Feast, Famine, and Fasting: Food and Material Consumption in Medieval and Renaissance Culture,” Arizona State University, February 2005.

9. Cooking and Consumption in the Francophone Novel: Beyala's Comment cuisiner son mari à l'africaine,” also session chair, HICAH International Congress on the Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 2005.

10. "Authority and Ruse in the Old French Fabliaux,” AISA 19 th Annual International Conference on Literature and the Visual Arts, Atlanta, October 2004.

11. "Translation or Adaptation of a Hero? The Anglo-Norman and Middle English Romances of Guy of Warwick,” International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, July 2004.

12. "Rhetorical Games in Meraugis de Portlesguez and Lyric Poetry,” 39 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2004.

13. "Visual Deception and Visual Desire in French Arthurian Romance,” MLA , San Diego, December 2003.

14. "Uncourtly Table Manners: Food Fights and Transgressive Eating in Romance,” 38 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2003.

15. "‘Such is our Teacher, Good With Justice:' The Moral Education of Children in Courtly Literature,” MLA, San Francisco , Dec. 1991. Youngest MLA presenter (as an undergraduate).

Taught at Ohio University, Washington University, L'Université de Paris (La Sorbonne/La Sorbonne-Nouvelle), Lycée Louis Pasteur, and other French Institutions.
Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in France (ENS Fontenay-St Cloud) 1998-9.
Worked for companies in France such as Xerox, Peugeot, L'Express, and EatinParis.com.
Textbook reviewer for Thomson/Heinle, Wiley publishers (French and Pedagogy)
Summary of Awards, Honors, Fellowships of Professional
o Top Professor 2007, Mortarboard Honor Society
o Humanist of the Year 2006, LP&SC, USU
o Teacher of the Year 2004-5, LP&SC, USU
o MLA Bibliographer Fellowship Award and Field Bibliographer 2005-8, for French and Comparative Medieval Studies,MLA
International Bibliography
o Mellon Foundation Fellowship, "Early Modern Literature, Politics, and Material Culture”