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BIO

Charles-Louis Morand Métivier is a native of France. He joined ¶¶Òõ̽̽ in 2013. His research focuses on the literary representation of the extreme emotions begotten by medieval and renaissance massacres, and on how these emotions helped create an idea of the nascent French nation as an emotional community, transcending the traditional ideas of nation building. He has secondary interests in literary and gender theory, early-modern poetry, and theater, and in the expression of French popular culture through cinema, television, music, graphic novels, etc.

Charles-Louis enjoys helping students discover and understand the many sides of French culture. He has taught classes on language, culture, translation, and literature. He has published articles and chapters on Ronsard and du Bellay, Christine de Pizan, and Philippe de Mézières, and Alain Chartier. He is the co-editor of Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Palgrave, 2018). His next book, a translation and critical edition of the anonymous Tragédie du sac de Cabrières is forthcoming with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in 2021, He is working on a book on emotions, literature, and nation in the reign of Charles VI, a volume on the perception of the Fifteenth century, and a book on emotional popular culture during the French Wars of religion.

French: native
English: near-native
German: advanced
Latin and ancient Greek: reading knowledge

Courses

• FREN 2200: Intermediate French II
• FREN 3110: Writing Workshop
• FREN 3410: Contemporary France
• FREN 3610: French Literature in Context I
• FREN 4610: Early French Women Writers
• FREN 4400: Topics in French Culture

Publications

Publications (DOCX)

Awards and Achievements

• The Ramon and Marguerite Guthrie Fund at Dartmouth College, awarded for the organization of "Prosecuting War in the Long Fourteenth Century," with Andrea Tarnowski (Dartmouth College).
• Burack Distinguished Lecture Series, awarded for Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, University of Vermont, October 2014.
• Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, Academic Year 2012-2013.
• Teaching Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, August 2007-April 2012.
• Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2011. 
• Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2010.
• Newberry Library Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, January 2010.
• Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2009.
• Katz Business School Fellowship, Teaching of Business French, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2008.

Area(s) of expertise

French Medieval and Renaissance Studies; history of emotions.