Associate
Professor of French
1996-present.
Head of
the French Section
(Elementary
and Intermediate levels)
1993-97 and
1999-2004.
Founding
President
International
Marie de France Society
1992-2001
Webmaster
for the IMFS
1993-present
Dr.
Maréchal received her PhD
at the University
of Michigan (French literature),
an MA at SUNY-Albany
(French),
and a Maîtrise
ès Lettres at the Sorbonne-Paris III (English Literature).
Since
she arrived at VCU,
she has been
teaching all levels of French courses,
including
elementary, intermediate grammar,
conversation,
and reading courses,
advanced literature
surveys and introductory literature courses
from Middle
Ages to XVIIth century,
French Literature
in Translation, and an Introduction to French Cinema.
Previous
appointments gave her the opportunity to design courses in:
"French Diction
for Voice Majors (U of Michigan);
Technical
and Scientific Translation (U of Houston);
History of
the French Language,
Explication
de Texte,
Introduction
to Literary Criticism,
Commercial
French (West Virginia U).
While
teaching at WVU,
she was the
coordinator for the exam leading to
the "Certificat
Pratique" of the Chambre de Commerce de Paris (1987-91).
As a member
of the VCU Graduate Faculty,
she has been
the external reviewer for
several Fine
Arts theses (English Department)
and two PhD
dissertations (Art History).
Dr.
Maréchal's research interests include:
Twelfth- and
Thirteenth-century French literature
(Matière
de Bretagne; fabliaux and lays); Codicology;
Literary criticism
(traditional and modern),
and the application
of modern theory to the analysis of medieval texts.
Her current
research focuses on the history of medieval studies.
PUBLICATIONS
a. Book
In
Quest of Marie de France, A Twelfth-Century Poet
edited with
an introduction by Chantal Maréchal
(Lewiston:
The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992)
The Reception
and Transmission
of the
Works of Marie de France: 1774-1974
edited with
an introduction by Chantal Maréchal
(Lewiston:
The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004)
b. Articles
"Marie de France Studies: Past, Present, Future."
Envoi
8: 2 (Fall 1999)
"Marie de France as Sapientia:
Author Portraits
in the Manuscripts of the Fables."
Le Cygne
3
(April 1997): 45-58.
"Mauprat de George Sand: Présence du Moyen Age."
George
Sand Studies 15:1-2 (1997): 3.18.
"Le lai de Fresne et la littérature édifiante du XIIème
siècle"
Cahiers
de civilisation médiévale: Xe-XIIe
siècles
35
(Avril-juin
1992): 131-41.
"Time and Space in Old French Lais and Fabliaux"
Michigan
Academician 13 (1983):83-91.
c. Book
Reviews
Margaret M. Boland
Architectural
Structure in the Lais of Marie de France.
New York:
Peter Lang, 1995.
In Speculum
74.2
(April 1999), pp. 391-93.
Rosenberg, N. Samuel and Hans Tischler, eds.
Chansons
de Trouvères: "chanter m'estuer".
Paris: Librairie
Générale Française, 1995.
In French
Review 72.1 (October 1998), pp. 122-24.
- Mikhaïlova, Milena
Le Présent
de Marie.
Paris: Diderot
Editors, 1996.
In Speculum
(January 1998): 234-36.
Kay, Sarah. Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry.
New York:
Cambridge UP, 1990).
In The
French Review 68 (1995): 867-68.
Redman, Jr. Harry
The Roland
Legend in Nineteenth-Century French Literature.
(Lexington:
The University Press of Kentucky, 1991).
In Nineteenth-Century
French Studies 21: 1-2
(Fall-Winter
1992-1993).
Simon Gaunt. Troubadours and Irony.
(Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1989).
In The
French Review 65: 807-8 (1992).
Juliet
R.V. Barker
The Tournament
in England, 1100-1400
(The Boydell
Press, 1985).
In Synopsis
(Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988):39-40.
d. Editions
Le Cygne:
Journal
of the International Marie de France Society.
Vols. 1-6
(1996-2000)
e. Works
in progress
"Long Live the Queen":
A New Reading
of the Anonymous Lai de Tydorel.
(Project presented
at the 1999 International Congress on Medieval Studies)
OTHER
INTERESTS:
-- World
Folklores and mythologies --
-- Colonial
Virginia--
Marie de
France at her desk
(A composition based on the author portrait of
Paris, BN, MS fr.
1446)
Copyright © 1992 Oscar A. Maréchal
Background design Copyright © Bradley
W. Schenck, 1997 & 1998
