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Sharon Kinoshita Home  Directory Sharon Kinoshita
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Sharon Kinoshita
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Professor, Graduate Program Director |
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Humanities 1 632 |
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(831) 459-2395 Office
(831) 459-1924 Message |
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sakinosh@ucsc.edu |
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Intercultural relations in 12th- and 13th-century literature; Mediterranean studies; globalism; postcolonial theory; world literature and cultural studies |
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FALL 2009: W Th 2-3 & by appt |
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LTFR 131 - The Middle Ages: Orientalism
LTFR 230 - Studies in Literary and Cultural History: Orientalism (Graduate Course)
LTWL 190A - Topics in World Literature and Cultural Studies: Medieval Mediterranean (Senior Seminar)
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TEACHING AREAS:
L`Orientalisme au douzième siècle français
«Amour courtois» et société féodale dans la littérature française du moyen âge
The World(ing) of Marco Polo
Rethinking the Medieval Mediterranean / Medieval Mediterranean Literature
Global Cities: Paris-Cairo
Introduction to Literary Theory: Postcolonial Theory and Globalization |
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My current work is primarily focused in Medieval Mediterranean Studies. With Brian Catlos (History, UCSC), I co-direct the Mediterranean Seminar, a UCSC-based research organization devoted to the interdisciplinary study of the medieval Mediterranean (see mediterraneanseminar.org), and have co-organized a Residential Research Group at the University of California Humanities Research Institute in Irvine, CA (Fall 2007) and an NEH Summer Institute in Barcelona, Spain (July 2008). My own work in this area includes two book manuscripts in progress. Paying Tribute: Old French Literature and The Medieval Culture of Empire studies vernacular French representations of and interactions with an imperial culture, distinct from that of post-Carolingian Europe, shared by Latin Christian, Byzantine, and Muslim courts. Medieval Mediterranean Literature explores new approaches to canonical and non-canonical medieval texts in the historical context of the high and late medieval Mediterranean, c. 1100-1400. In the field of Old French Literature, I am currently co-authoring a book on Marie de France with Peggy McCracken of the University of Michigan. |
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Books and Monographs
Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Honorable Mention, MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies.
Articles in Professional Journals
“Medieval Mediterranean Literature.” Forum on Theories and Methodologies in Medieval Literary Studies. PMLA (2009): forthcoming.
“Translatio/n, Empire, and the Worlding of Medieval Literature: The Travels of Kalila wa Dimna.” Postcolonial Studies 11:4 (2008): 371-85.
“Chrétien de Troyes’s Cligés in the Medieval Mediterranean.” Special Issue, Chrétien de Troyes’s Cligés. Ed. Norris Lacy. Arthuriana 18.3 (2008): 48-61.
“Ports of Call: Boccaccio’s Alatiel in the Medieval Mediterranean.” Special Issue, “Mapping the Mediterranean.” Ed. Valeria Finucci. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37:1 (2007): 163-95. Co-authored with Jason Jacobs.
“Male Order Brides: Marriage, Patriarchy, and Monarchy in the Roman de Silence.” Arthuriana 12:1 (2002): 64-75. Awarded the James Randall Leader Prize for best article in Arthuriana in 2002.
“Two For the Price of One: Courtly Love and Serial Polygamy in the Lais of Marie de France.” Arthuriana 8:2 (1998): 33-55.
“The Politics of Translatio: French-Byzantine Relations in Chrétien de Troyes's Cligès.” Exemplaria 8:2 (1996): 315-54.
“Heldris de Cornuälle’s Roman de Silence and the Feudal Politics of Lineage,” PMLA 110:3 (1995): 397-409.
Chapters in Books
“Crusades and Identity.” Cambridge History of French Literature. Ed. William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond, and Emma Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming.
“Worlding Medieval French Literature.” French Global: A New Approach to Literary History. Ed. Susan Suleiman and Christie McDonald. New York: Columbia UP, forthcoming.
“Beyond Philology: Cross-Cultural Engagement and the Literary History of Romance.” The Persistence of Philology: Rethinking The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History. Ed. Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Karla Mallette. U of Toronto Press, forthcoming.
“Marco Polo’s Le Devisement dou Monde and the Tributary East.” Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West. Ed. Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Amilcare A. Iannucci. Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. 60-86.
“Deprovincializing the Middle Ages.” The Worlding Project: Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization. Ed. Rob Wilson and Christopher Leigh Connery. Santa Cruz: New Pacific Press, 2007. Pp. 61-75.
“Almería Silk and the French Feudal Imaginary: Towards a ‘Material’ History of the Medieval Mediterranean.” Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings. Ed. E. Jane Burns. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 165-76. |
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Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley |
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