Olga Anna Duhl
EDUCATION
Ph.D. French, Rutgers University, 1992 (High Distinction); Licence-Maîtrise French, University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1979 (Magna Cum Laude)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Lafayette College, Professor (2007-), Founder and Co-Chair, Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies Program (5th-18th Centuries); Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris, Invited Scholar, November 2023; Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris-3, Visiting Scholar (February-April, 2017); Lafayette College, Associate Professor (2000-2007), Assistant Professor (1993-2000); Columbia University, Adjunct Assistant Professor (1999); Center for Advanced Renaissance Studies, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary, Visiting Scholar (1998), University Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, Hungary, Visiting Scholar (1998); Lafayette College, Instructor (1992-1993); Barnard College, Instructor (1991-1992); Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, French Literature Consultant (1991); Rutgers University, Head Teaching Assistant (1987-1990); Université François Rabelais Tours, France, Teaching Assistant (Summer 1988).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (Selected)
International Association for Middle French Studies, President elect (2018-2021)
Peer Reviewed Scholarly Journals, Literature and Theology, Reviewer (2011-); Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, Reviewer (2002-)
Interdisciplinary Research Center, Texts and Cultures: Texts, Discourses, Representations, University of Bourgogne, France, US Associate Member (1998-)
Phi Delta Kappa Society National Committee on Walter J. Jensen Fellowship for French Language, Literature, and Culture, Elected Member (2009-2011)
Institute for Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Bonn, Germany, Language Consultant (2007-)
FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS (Selected)
The National Endowment for the Humanities Planning grant: “Experience Revolution in the Backcountry: Lehigh Valley Contributions to the New Nation” (scholar advisor), 2023
Humanities Center Faculty Grant Public Humanities & Outreach: “CyberPALS: A Lafayette Francophone Cultural Partnership”, 2020-2021
The Grolier Club’s Mary Young Fund, Public Exhibition Publication Grant, 2016
Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, International Conference Sponsored Participation, France, 2016
Rutgers University 250 Anniversary Fellowship, 2016
Teagle Foundation Diversity Initiative Grant, Lafayette College, 2013
The Folter Fellowship in the History of Bibliography, the Bibliographical Society of America, 2008
The Renaissance Society of America Research Grant, 2003
Pro-Cultura Grant for the Humanities, University Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, Hungary, 1998
Research and Scholarship Preparations Grants, Lafayette College, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2004, 2015, 2022
Mellon Foundation Grants for Technology Initiative, 1996, 1998
University Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1990-1991
Jeanne Marandon Research Fellowship, Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones en Amérique, 1990.
HONORS and AWARDS (Selected)
International Association for Middle French Studies, Honorary President (2021-)
Choice Outstanding Electronic Academic Title, The Association of College & Research Libraries, awarded for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online (contributing author), 2020
Rutgers University 250 Anniversary, “A Day of Revolutionary Thinking” Award, 2016
Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, the French Government, Ministry of Education, 2015
The Oliver Edwin Williams Endowed Chair for Languages, Lafayette College, 2015
The Van Artsdalen Prize for outstanding scholarly achievement, Lafayette College, 2008
Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Faculty Superior Teaching and Scholarship Award, Lafayette College, 2004
Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Faculty Lecture Award for superior scholarship, Lafayette College, 2000
SCHOLARSHIP (Selected)
Books (Monographs and Critical Editions)
Folie et rhétorique dans la sottie, Genève, Droz, Publications Romanes et Françaises 210, 1994.
Sotise a huit personnaiges [le Nouveau Monde], Genève, Droz, Textes Littéraires Français 573, 2005.
La Nef des folles, an adaptation by Jehan Drouyn et alii, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2013.
Poétique de drame, drame du poétique. Enjeux du sujet dans le théâtre, des rhétoriqueurs à Marguerite de Navarre, Recherches littéraires médiévales 41, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2023.
Edited and Co-Edited Volumes
Le Théâtre français des années 1450-1550: état actuel des recherches, ed. Olga Anna Duhl, Dijon (France), Le Texte et l’Edition, Université de Bourgogne, 2002.
Quêtes spirituelles et actualités contemporaines dans le théâtre de Marguerite de Navarre, ed. Olga Anna Duhl, Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, Special Issue (XXII), Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, Toronto, Canada, Fall 2002.
Amour, sexualité et médecine aux XVe et XVIe siècles, articles réunis et présentés par Olga Anna Duhl, Dijon, Editions Universitaires de Dijon, France, 2009.
Les Cinq sens entre Moyen Age et Renaissance: Enjeux épistémologiques et esthétiques ed. Olga Anna Duhl and Jean-Marie Fritz, Dijon, Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2016.
“A True Friend of the Cause”: Lafayette and the Antislavery Movement”, ed. Olga Anna Duhl and Diane Windham Shaw, New York, New York/Easton, Pennsylvania, The Grolier Club/Lafayette College, 2016.
Bacchus entre Moyen Age et Renaissance (1100-1600). Métamorphoses d’un dieu antique, ed. Olga Anna Duhl, Jean-Marie Fritz, and Silvère Menegaldo, Dijon, Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2024.
Translations
“A True Friend of the Cause”: Lafayette and the Antislavery Movement, translation of primary sources for public exhibition, educational material, and catalog, 2016-2017
Book Chapters, Articles, and Encyclopedia Entries (ca. 60, from 2000-2024)
Book Reviews (ca. 25, from 2000-2024)
Conference Papers, Invited Lectures (ca. 65, from 2000-2024) delivered at major professional conferences and institutions of higher learning in the US, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Five major international conferences held at the Centre Pluridisciplinaire Textes et Cultures, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France: 1999 (organizer); 2002 (organizer); 2006 (organizer), 2011 (co-organizer); 2019 (co-organizer); Real and Imaginary Voyages, International Association for Middle French Studies bi-annual conference, Lafayette College, June 8-12, 2021 (organizer).
PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS
“A True Friend of the Cause”: Lafayette and the Antislavery Movement”, the Grolier Club, New York, New York, December 7, 2016- February 4, 2017 (co-curator, catalog co-editor)
SERVICE ON EDITORIAL BOARDS (Selected)
Revue d’études françaises (1998-)
Le Moyen français (2010-)
Bien Dire et Bien Aprandre, Revue de Médiévistique (2021-)
Academic Palms Award recipient, French Consulate, New York City