Patricia de Castries
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I am the Assistant Director of the Stanford Language Center.
I. Pedagogic-related projects.
A. For courses focusing on a specific cultural period of the Humanities tradition.
SAMPLE: Introductory course to the concept of humanism (as it relates to 16th-centuryFrance).
B. For courses focusing on a specific motif of the Humanities tradition.
SAMPLE: Course dealing with the notion of quest, from specific texts of the medieval tradition cinematographic reinscriptions in modern culture.
C. For courses offering an interdisciplinary approach to the Humanities tradition.
SAMPLE: Development of a course focusing on the concept of perfection.
D. For courses dealing with the French language
SAMPLE ONE: A thematic French language course at the first-year level.
II. Research-related projects.
A. For the development of scholarly dialogue on topics related to the medieval field
SAMPLE: the Web addresses for the exploration of
- Arthurian culture;
- the chivalric tradition; and
- medieval spirituality.
B. For the development of scholarly research on topics related tothe medieval field
SAMPLE: exploration o the manuscript tradition of Chrétien de Troyes's last-known romance ("Perceval and the Story of the Grail") in two of its edited versions:
- Lecoy's edition (based on the "Guiot" manuscript); and,
- Roach's edition (based on the "T" manuscript).
GOAL: this transcription of two edited versions of Chrétien's celebrated romance aims at helping scholars to engage, via the Web, in a variety of explorations of a linguistic, semantic, or textual nature. It will facilitate, and speed up, a comparative analysis of those two versions by providing scholars with the opportunity to transfer the texts onto their computers and, hence, explore them through the use of all of the current software technology.