 | R. Howard Bloch |
R. Howard Bloch, the newly appointed Sterling Professor of French, is a scholar of the French Middle Ages whose work spans the subjects of literature, economics, the visual arts and law.
Designation as a Sterling Professor is one of the University's highest faculty honors.
Bloch teaches in both the Department of French and the Medieval Studies Program and has served as director of the Division of the Humanities since 2001. His teaching and research have covered topics ranging from a study of epic and romance forms of the 12th and 13th centuries to an examination of the relationship of literature, money and family structure, to medieval comedy to an exploration of the history of printing in the 19th century.
His books include "Medieval French Literature and Law," "Etymologies and Genealogies: A Literary Anthropology of the French Ages," "The Scandal of the Fabliaux," "Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love," "God's Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne," "The Anonymous Marie de France" and, most recently, "Weaving to Byzantium: The World's Most Famous Textile and the Norman Conquest of England and the Middle East," a study of Bayeux tapestry. He is also author of the novel "Moses in the Promised Land," as well as numerous articles, and has edited or written introductions for several books.
Bloch joined the Yale faculty in 1997 as the Augustus R. Street Professor of French. At Yale, he has served on the graduate committee for the French department and the medieval studies committee and has chaired the Hilles and Griswold Funds Committee.
A graduate of Amherst College, Bloch earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He taught at the State University of New York, Buffalo, before joining the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1973. He served there until 1994. In 1995, he moved to Columbia University, where he chaired the Department of French and Romance Philology. He has also taught at the University of Grenoble and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. This past year Bloch has been a Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.
In 2004, Bloch received the Aldo and ,Jeanne Scaglione Prize of the Modern Language Association for his book "The Anonymous Marie de France." His other honors include Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, the James Russell Lowell Award of the Modern Language Association, and the Medal of the College de France. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an officer in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has given public lectures in France, England, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Canada and the United States, among other places.
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R. Howard Bloch appointed
Sterling Professor of French
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