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Leslie Zarker Morgan, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita
Leslie Morgan headshot

 (Comprehensive CV)

Education

  • Yale University, MA, MPhil, PhD (Italian Language and Literature)
  • Middlebury College, MA (Italian)
  • Mount Holyoke College, AB (Medieval Civilization)

Publications

Books/Edited Volumes

  • Huon d鈥橝uvergne: An Edition and Translation of the Fourteenth-Century Chanson de geste in Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett MS 78 D 8. Ed. Leslie Zarker Morgan, Trans. Shira Schwam-Baird. (Gallica) Boydell & Brewer, 2025.
  • Orlando Furioso at 500, 1516-2016, selected papers of Symposium held in Baltimore, MD. Co-editor with John C. McLucas and April Oettinger; Preface by Walter Stephens. Special issue of  (Italian Issue), 133.1.
  • The Epic Imagination in Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor Alice Colby-Hall. Co-editor with P. E. Bennett and F. Regina Psaki. Romance Monographs S-5. U of Mississippi, 2016.
  • "Si sai encor moult bon estoire, Chan莽on moult bone et anciene": Studies in the Text and Context of Old French Narrative in Honour of Joseph J. Duggan. Co- Ed. with Sophie Marnette and John F. Levy. Medium Aevum XXIII. Oxford: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 2015.
  • Co-editor with Anne Berthelot (U. of Ct., Storrs), et. al. Special issue of Olifant 25 (2006), 1-2.  (Published 2008.)
  • La Geste Francor: Chansons de geste of Ms. Marc. Fr. XIII (256).  Edition with glossary, introduction and notes.  2 volumes.  Arizona: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2009.
  • Approaches to Teaching the Song of Roland. Co-Editor with William W. Kibler. NY: MLA, 2006.
  • Franco-Italian and Italian Romance Epic. Ed. with Nancy Bradley-Cromey.  Special issue Olifant 21 (1996-97).
  • The Foreign Language Classroom: Bridging Theory and Practice. Ed. and introduction with Margaret A. Haggstrom and Joseph A. Wieczorek. NY: Garland Education Series, 1995.
  • Dante:  Summa Medievalis, papers of March 1988 Symposium held at SUNY, Stony Brook. Ed. and introduction with Charles Franco. NY: Filibrary, 1995.
  • Ludovico Ariosto's Five Cantos. Trans. NY: Garland, 1992.

Articles

  • 鈥溾楽enator roman鈥: Origins of the Italian Literary Romance Epic Trope.鈥 Francigena 10 (2024): 181-224. DOI: 10.25430/2420-9767/V10-005. https://www.francigena-unipd.com/index.php/francigena/article/view/97 
  • 鈥淐harlemagne, Ideal Progenitor of Country and Lineage: The Image of Charlemagne in the Prose Compilations of Andrea da Barberino.鈥 In Charlemagne in Italy, edited by J. E. Everson. Charlemagne: A European Icon, general editors Marianne Ailes and Philip E. Bennett. Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures Series. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2023. Pp. 107-140.
  • 鈥淭he First Franco-Italian Vernacular Textual Witnesses of the Charlemagne Epic Tradition in the Italian Peninsula: Hybrid Forms.鈥 Co-authored with Claudia Boscolo. In Charlemagne in Italy, edited by J. E. Everson. Charlemagne: A European Icon, general editors Marianne Ailes and Philip E. Bennett. Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures Series. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2023. Pp. 26-73.
  • 鈥淭urpin in Word and Image: From the Pseudo-Turpin through the Italian Spagna Tradition.鈥 In Turpino e la saga carolingia: intrecci di culture e tradizioni. Ed. Santiago L贸pez Mart铆nez-Mor谩s, Marco Piccat and Laura Ramello. Universit脿 degli studi di Torino/Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Santiago de Compostela, Servizo de publicaci贸ns e intercambio cient铆fico dell'Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2022. Pp. 207-35.
  • 鈥淐harlemagne et sa famille italienne: Andrea da Barberino et l'acculturation des carolingiens.鈥 In Oltre la mer salee: Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of the Soci茅t茅 Rencesvals pour l鈥櫭﹖ude des 茅pop茅es romanes, Toronto, 13-17 August 2018. Ed. Dorothea Kullmann and Anthony Fredette. Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2022. Pp. 142-56.
  • 鈥淏etween France and Italy: Arthur鈥檚 Parrot in Le Conte du Papagau.鈥 Modern Language Review (MLR) 116.3 (July 2021): 408-27.
  • Cent ans de franco-italien: du Huon d'Auvergne de 1341 au Huon d'Auvergne de 1441." In Autour du 芦Roman de Florimont禄: Approches multidiciplinaires 脿 la complexit茅 textuelle m茅di茅vale. Ed. Marta Materni.   pp. 75-89.
  • 鈥淭he 鈥楥antare dei cantari鈥: A Fifteenth-Century Vernacular Menu of Song.鈥 Re-Edition, Annotation and Translation into English of Pio Rajna鈥檚 鈥楥antare dei Cantari鈥. Letteratura cavalleresca italiana 2 (2020): 61-116.
  • 鈥淔rom Roland to Orlando: French Charlemagne Tradition and its Development in Italy.鈥 In Teaching the Italian Renaissance Romance Epic. Ed. Jo Ann Cavallo. MLA, 2018. pp. 41-55.
  • 鈥淔ranco-Italian Lexicon: Problems with l's.鈥 In 鈥淚l fist que proz鈥: Essays in Honour of Robert F. Cook. Ed. Sara Jane Miles and Stephen Martin. British Rencesvals Publications, 2018. pp. 145-66.
  • 鈥淭he Turin Octavien Retraced: Needed Updates for Turin Manuscript Records.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Romania 135 (2017): 445-51.
  • 鈥淟es deux Romes de Huon d'Auvergne et le bon gouvernement.鈥 In 芦 Par deviers Rome m鈥檈n renvenrai errant 禄: Atti del XX猫me Congr猫s International de la Societ茅 Rencesvals pour l鈥櫭﹖ude des 茅pop茅es romanes (Rome, Italy, 20-25 July 2015). Ed. M. Careri, C. Menichetti, T. Rachetta. Viella, 2017. 579-89.
  • 鈥溍塼rangers dans un pays 茅tranger: Voyageurs 茅piques fran莽ais en Italie au XIVe si猫cle.鈥 In 芦 Le Monde entour et environ 禄:La geste, la route et le livre, M茅langes Claude Roussel. Ed. Emilie Goudeau, Fran莽oise Laurent et Michel Quereuil. Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2017. 239-52.
  • 鈥淢edieval Epic Re-imagined in the Eighteenth Century: A New Lesson from Roland's Youth in Pier Jacopo Martello's Carlo Magno.鈥 In Epic Imagination in Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Alice-Colby Hall. Ed. P. E. Bennett, L. Zarker Morgan and F. Regina Psaki. Romance Monographs S-5. U of Mississippi, 2016. 193-229.
  • 鈥淐arlo Magno a Bologna鈥 e nel Nord America: Pier Jacopo Martello e la tradizione cavalleresca.鈥 In Carlo Magno in Italia e la fortuna dei libri di cavalleria. Atti del Convegno internazionale di Zurigo (6-8 maggio 2014). Ed. Johannes Bartuschat e Franca Strologo. Longo, 2016. 457-79.
  • 鈥淕enealogia gestae: Boccaccio and the Franco-ItalianTradition of the chansons de geste.鈥 In Boccaccio veneto: 700 anni di incroci mediterranei a Venezia. Acts of the conference held at 鈥淐asa Artom鈥, Wake Forest University, Venice, 21-22 giugno 2013. Ed. Luciano Formisano and Roberta Morosini. Aracne, 2015. 305-21.
  • 鈥淟别&苍产蝉辫;Roman d'Alexandre dans Huon d'Auvergne: tourisme et truismes dans une 茅pop茅e du XIVe&苍产蝉辫;蝉颈猫肠濒别.鈥&苍产蝉辫;滨苍&苍产蝉辫;Epic Connections / Rencontres 茅piques Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference of the Soci茅t茅 Rencesvals, Oxford, 13鈥17 August 2012. Ed. Marianne J. Ailes, Philip E. Bennett and Anne Elizabeth Cobby. Soci茅t茅 Rencesvals British Branch Publications 7. Edinburgh: Soci茅t茅 Rencesvals British Branch, 2015. 509-27.
  • 鈥淭he Avatars of Orable-Guibourc from French chanson de geste to Italian romanzo cavalleresco: A Persistent Multiple Alterity.鈥 Co-authored with Philip E. Bennett. .
  • 鈥淎 Snapshot of Franco-Italian: Romance and Epic in the Gonzaga Inventory of 1407.鈥&苍产蝉辫;In 'Si sai encor moult bon estoire, Chan莽on moult bone et anciene: Studies in the Test and Context of Old French Narrative in Honour of Joseph J. Duggan'. Ed. Sophie Marnette, John F. Levy, and Leslie Zarker Morgan. Medium Aevum XXIII. Oxford: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 2015. 305-27.

Book Reviews

  • La Destruction de Rome: Chanson de geste du XIIIe si猫cle. 脡dition par Marc Le Person d'apr猫s les manuscrits de Hanovre (IV-578) et de Londres (Egerton 3028). Classiques fran莽ais du Moyen 脗ge, 200. Paris: Honor茅 Champion, 2023. 420 pp. French Studies 78.4 (October 2024), online 18 July 2024.
  • Al Owaidi, Rasha. La letteratura cavalleresca e il mondo arabo: il caso di Andrea da Barberino. Regesto e studio critico. Firenze: Firenze UP, 2021. Pp. 215. Annali d鈥橧talianistica 40 (2022): 432-34.
  • Mascitelli, Cesare, La 驶Geste Francor鈥 nel cod. marc. V13: Stile, tradizione, lingua. Letteratura cavalleresca italiana 3 (2021): 105-09.
  • Cavallo, Jo Ann, e Corrado Confalonieri. Boiardo. Unicopli, 2018. Letteratura cavalleresca italiana 2 (2020): 119-20.
  • Boscolo, Claudia. L'Entree d'Espagne: Context and Authorship at the Origins of the Italian Chivalric Epic. Series: Medium 脝vum Monographs. Oxford, UK: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures, 2017. .
  • Claudio Gigante e Giovanni Palumbo, eds. La Tradizione epica e cavalleresca in Italia (XII-XVI sec.). Bruxelles: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2010. Revue Belge d鈥橦istoire et Philologie 91.2 (2013): 506-11.

Other Publications and Web Materials

  • 鈥淭ranslation of two Facezie for study of the romance epic.鈥 MLA Commons. . 2024.
  • With Stephen P. McCormick, Shira Schwam-Baird, Alan Bernstein and Jean-Claude Vallecalle.
  • . Preparation of texts through Loyola-Notre Dame Library.
  •  (On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies).
  • 鈥淲omen, Medieval: Italian Epic.鈥 In Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages). Ed. Margaret C. Schaus, Thomas Izbicki, and Susan Mosher Stuard. NY: Routledge, 2006. 252-54.
  • Aceste, Adolfo, Camillus, Gherardo da Camino, Cato the Elder, Curius, Eacus, Frederick II of Aragon, Garamantes, Ghisolabella, Laomedonte, Lelius, Lucilius, Manlius, Numa Pompilius, Pythagoras, Regulus, Manfredi da Vico. In Dante Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Lansing. NY: Garland Press, 2000.

 book cover for Leslie Morgan's book 'La Geste Francor' book cover

Areas of Specialization 

  • Medieval and Renaissance Italian and French literature: their relationship and connections in the medieval and renaissance periods (chanson de geste and its development in the Italian peninsula; Italian renaissance lyric and its developments in France; computational philology; lexical and technical echoes between works across languages)
  • Foreign language pedagogy: teaching at all levels in a coordinated, interdisciplinary collaborative manner (Italian language instruction; uses of technology, including the computer, at all levels of language instruction and testing; teaching of literature)
  • Humor: its development in literary contexts (levels of interpretation in literary texts and changes over time and place and how these lead to humor; how to appreciate literary humor)

Presentations 

Conferences

  • 2025   鈥淚l Prete Gianni nell鈥橦uon d鈥橝uvergne: testo e contesto.鈥 X Seminario franco-italiano, Padova, 24-25 novembre.
  • 2025   鈥淟e clerc combattant : Turpin et ses confr猫res.鈥 Soci茅t茅 Rencesvals 23rd Triennial International Conference, Neuch芒tel, Switzerland, July 14-18.
  • 2024   鈥淟鈥檈xpression affective et les appels aux 茅motions des auditeurs dans les Aspremont 芦鈥痯茅riph茅riques鈥.鈥 With Marianne Ailes, Colloque international de la Soci茅t茅 Rencesvals pour l鈥櫭﹖ude des 茅pop茅es romanes, Section fran莽aise, 14-16 novembre 2024, ENS Lyon.
  • 2024   鈥淧remodern Humor in a Postmodern World: Humor and the Franco-Italian Romance Epic.鈥 Modern Language Association, Philadelphia PA, January 4-7, 2024.
  • July 2022, "La Flandre et l鈥櫭﹑op茅e franco-italienne." Soci茅t茅 Rencesvals 22nd Triennial International Conference, Lille, Fr, 19-23 July.
  • January 2022  "Language and Power: Mixed Language as Political Commentary in Franco-Italian Epic." Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., 6-9 January.
  • July 2019,   鈥淏etween France and Italy: Arthur鈥檚 Adolescent Court Adventures in The Knight of the Parrot.鈥&苍产蝉辫;University of Exeter, UK, 22-27 July 2019.
  • April 2019, Huon d鈥橝uvergne in Franco-Italian Hell (with American and digital guides).鈥 Baltimore Cenacolo Italiano, April 5, University of Maryland.
  • August 2018, 鈥淐harlemagne et sa famille italienne: Andrea da Barberino et l'acculturation des carolingiens.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Soci茅t茅 Rencesvals 21st Triennial International Conference, Toronto, CA, 13-17August.
  • March 2018, 鈥淢ale Humor in Feminine Dress: Crossdressing Men in Romance Epic Tradition.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Twenty-first Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, Florida.
  • April 2017, 鈥淭he Digital Huon d'Auvergne in its Franco-Italian Universe: More Than Stemma and Structure.鈥&苍产蝉辫;, Toronto, CA.
  • January 2016, 鈥淔rom Old French to Italian: The 1341 and 1441 Huon d'Auvergnes.鈥 Modern Language Association, Austin TX.
  • July 2015, 鈥淟es deux Romes de Huon d'Auvergne.鈥&苍产蝉辫; , Rome, Italy.
  • May 2015, Part of 鈥淒igital Humanities: The Franco-Italian Huon d鈥橝uvergne, an NEH-Supported Digital Edition and Translation Project (A Roundtable)鈥: 鈥淗erding Colleagues: Coordinating an International Multilingual Mixed Languages Digital Edition.鈥&苍产蝉辫;.
  • April 2015, 鈥淐harlemagne Censured: Visual Imagery and Expurgation in Pier Jacopo Martello's Carlo Magno (1727).鈥 21st annual Carolina Conference on Romance Languages, Chapel Hill, NC, April 9-11.
  • May 2014, 鈥Carlo Magno a Bologna鈥 e nel Nord America: Pier Jacopo Martello e la tradizione cavalleresca.鈥 Carlo Magno in Italia e la fortuna dei libri di cavalleria, Convegno internazionale - Internationale Tagung (Zurigo, 6-8 maggio 2014). Carlo Magno in Italia e la fortuna dei libri di cavalleria, Convegno internazionale - Internationale Tagung (Zurigo, 6-8 maggio 2014).
  • June 2013, 鈥Genealogia gestae: Boccaccio and the Franco-Italian Tradition of  the chanson de geste.Boccaccio veneto: 700 anni di incroci mediterranei a Venezia. 鈥淐asa Artom,鈥 Wake Forest University, Venice.

Service Activities, Memberships in Academic Societies

  • AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian)
  • Dante Society of America
  • ICLS-NAB (International Courtly Literature Society, North American Branch)
  • MLA (Modern Language Association)
  • Medieval Academy of America  
  • Soci茅t茅 Rencesvals (American-Canadian Branch)

 

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