Writer, poet, playwright, publisher, philosopher; author of Le Versant animal (The Animal Side, Fordham University Press, 2011); L’Instant et son ombre; Le Temps fixé
Le Versant animal
Writer, poet, publisher, playwright and philosopher, Jean-Christophe Bailly founded and directed the magazines Fin de siècle (1974-1977) and Aléa (1981-1989), and was in charge of the series Détroits for Christian Bourgois éditeur. Bailly has taught at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage de Blois since 1997 and he frequently collaborates with directors and painters. He is the author of Le Versant animal (The Animal Side, Fordham University Press, 2011); L’Instant et son ombre; Le Temps fixé.
Thursday, October 13, 7:00 p.m.
Professor of French, Yale University; author of Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love; God’s Plagiarist; The Anonymous Marie de France
Restoration: From Notre Dame de Paris to Gaston Paris
R. Howard Bloch is Sterling Professor of French and Chair of the Humanities Program at Yale University. He has written on a variety of topics in and around medieval literature and social history; legal, economic, familial, and political institutions; humor and the fabliaux; gender and the rise of Western romantic love and the history of the discipline of Medieval Studies. His recent books include A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Bayeux Tapestry and the Norman Conquest of 1066.
His lecture Restoration: From Notre Dame de Paris to Gaston Paris includes discussion of Viollet-le-Duc, the gothic revival, and the restoration of medieval languages.
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