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Dr. Christophe Chaguinian

Professor

University of North Texas

Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

(950) 565-2389

Email: Christophe.Chaguinian@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Indiana University, 2003
    Major: French
    Specialization: French Literature
  • MA, University of Alabama, 1991
    Major: French
    Specialization: French Literature
    Dissertation: Les Albas Provencales: Edition Critique
  • DEUG, Université de Paris X, Nanterre, 1987
    Major: Classics

Professional Positions

  • Lecturer of French, University of Kansas. University of Kansas. (2003 - 2006).
  • Strasbourg Program Director, University of Kansas. University of Kansas. (2005 - 2005).
  • Paris Program Director, University of Kansas. University of Kansas. (2004 - 2004).
  • Associate Instructor, Indiana University. Indiana University. (1995 - 2002).

    • Academic - Post-Secondary

  • Associate Professor, UNT. UNT. (2014 - Present).
  • Assistant Professor of French, UNT. UNT. (2008 - Present).
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of French, University of Illinois. University of Illinois. (2008 - 2008).
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2007 - 2007).
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Northern Illinois University. Northern Illinois University. (2006 - 2007).

Professional Memberships

  • Société internationale pour l'´étude du théâtre médiéval. (2017 - Present).
  • Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society. (2015 - Present).
  • Société internationale d'études épiques Rencesvals. (2009 - Present).
  • American Association of Teachers of French. (2008 - Present).
  • International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS). (2005 - Present).

Development Activities

  • Self-Study Program, Webinar: Myths and Misconceptions in Communicative Language Teaching, Klett World Languages. United States of America. (May 23, 2024 - May 23, 2024).
  • Self-Study Program, Webinar: Enhancing Language Learning with Real-World Content, Vista Higher Learning. United States of America. (April 4, 2024 - April 4, 2024).
  • Self-Study Program, Webinar, “Transforming Student Language Experiences with High Impact Practices”,, Vista Higher Learning. United States of America. (October 30, 2023 - October 30, 2023).
  • Self-Study Program, Webinar: “Tentacularity: Strengthening Your Program by Extending it Beyond the Department”, Vista Higher Learning. United States of America. (October 4, 2023 - October 4, 2023).
  • Self-Study Program, Webinar: “Five Steps to Creating Language Pathways”, MLA (September 26, 2023), MLA. United States of America. (September 26, 2023 - September 26, 2023).
  • Self-Study Program, Webinar: “French for All", French Embassy. United States of America. (May 24, 2023 - May 24, 2023).
  • Self-Study Program, Webinar: ‘Reflections on Inclusive Teaching in the World Languages Classroom”, Vista Higher Learning4. United States of America. (March 14, 2023 - March 14, 2023).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • FREN 2040 - Intermediate French, 1 course.
  • FREN 3040 - Advanced Readings in French Culture, 1 course.
  • FREN 3050 - Advanced Readings in French, 8 courses.
  • FREN 3055 - Image of the Artist in France Throughout the Ages, 10 courses.
  • FREN 3070 - Advanced French Grammar and Composition, 9 courses.
  • FREN 3075 - Writing in French: Style and Technique, 3 courses.
  • FREN 3080 - Advanced French Conversation, 2 courses.
  • FREN 3350 - The French : Myths and Realities, 1 course.
  • FREN 4030 - Survey of French Literature I, 1 course.
  • FREN 4060 - Studies in French Literature, 3 courses.
  • FREN 4080 - Business French, 1 course.
  • FREN 4900 - Special Problems, 6 courses.
  • FREN 4920 - Cooperative Education in French, 13 courses.
  • FREN 4980 - Experimental Course, 2 courses.
  • FREN 5200 - Seminar in French, 17 courses.
  • FREN 5330 - History of the French Language, 2 courses.
  • FREN 5410 - Topics in Medieval Literature, 11 courses.
  • FREN 5430 - Topics in Renaissance Literature, 6 courses.
  • FREN 5900 - Special Problems, 2 courses.
  • FREN 5950 - Master's Thesis, 2 courses.

Directed Student Learning

  • Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. (February 2024 - February 2024).
  • Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. (September 2023 - October 2023).
  • Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. (September 2023 - October 2023).
  • Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. (June 2022 - June 2022).
  • Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. (March 2022 - March 2022).
  • Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. (March 2022 - March 2022).
  • Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. (February 2022 - February 2022).
  • Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. (May 2021 - May 2021).
  • Other (Honors Contract), "The French Chanson de Geste," Honors College. (January 2019 - May 2019).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Co-Chair, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. (January 2019 - May 2019).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "The Lady of the Marshes: Place, Identity, and Coudrette's Mélusine in Late-Mdieval Poitou," Art Education and Art History. (April 12, 2014).

Awards and Honors

  • Nominated for CLASS Award in Graduate Teaching, CLASS UNT. (2023).
  • Thank You note, UNT. (2022).
  • Nominated for CLASS Advisory Board Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship or Creative Activity, University of North Texas. (May 22, 2019).
  • Honors Day Nomination, University of North Texas. (April 3, 2019).
  • Thank you note, University of North Texas. (February 11, 2019).
  • Thank you note, University of North Texas. (December 2018).
  • Thank you note, University of North Texas. (December 2017).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Abstracts and Proceedings

  • Chaguinian, C. (2010). La modernité comme barrière à la compréhension des "Diaboliques" Actes du Congrès international Barbey et la modernité, Sorbonne, Paris, December 1-3, 2008..

    • Book

  • Chaguinian, C. (2023). Good Friday Ceremonies with Articulated Figures in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Paris, Classiques Garnier. https://classiques-garnier.com/our-history.html
  • Chaguinian, C. (2017). The Jeu d'Adam: MS Tours 927 and the Provenance of the Play. 304. https://arc-humanities.org/products/t-84104-97121-59-6721/
  • Chaguinian, C. (2014). Le Jeu d'Adam: une édition bilingue. 201.
  • Chaguinian, C. (2008). L'alba occitane: une édition critique . Publication in the series Classiques français du Moyen Age..

    • Book Chapter

  • Chaguinian, C. (2016). Les Néologismes de Barbey d'Aurevilly. Barbey d'Aurevilly. Perspectives critiques.. 335-46. Paris, Garnier.

    • Book Review

  • Chaguinian, C. (2018). Hasenohr, Geneviève, ed. and trans., Le Jeu d’Adam, with an introduction by Geneviève Hasenohr and Jean-Pierre Bordier. (Texte Courant 1.) Geneva: Droz, 2017. Speculum. 93 (3) 856-57. http://www.medievalacademy.org/?page=Speculum
  • Chaguinian, C. (2012). Barbier Josiane, Monique Cottret and Lydwine Scordia eds. Amour et désamour du prince du haut Moyen Age à la révolution française. Paris: Kimé, 2011..
  • Chaguinian, C. (2011). SVEC 2008: 6. Architecture. Cultural history. Autobiography. Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2008..
  • Chaguinian, C. (2010). Benhamou, Reed. Regulating the Académie: Art, Rules and Power in ancien régime France. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009..
  • Chaguinian, C. (2009). Marie-Geneviève Grossel and Jean-Charles Herbin eds., Les Chansons de langue d'oïl. L'art des trouvères. Valenciennes: PU Valenciennes, 2008. Encomia.
  • Chaguinian, C. (2009). Sobin, Gustaf. Ladder of Shadows Reflecting on Medieval Vestige in Provence and Languedoc. Berkeley: California UP, 2009..
  • Chaguinian, C. (2008). Dominique Billy and Ann Buckley eds., Etudes de langue et de littérature médiévales offertes à Peter T. Ricketts à l'occasion de son 70ème anniversaire. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005..
  • Chaguinian, C. (2008). Sayce, Olive. Exemplary Comparison from Homer to Petrarch. Cambridge: Brewer, 2008..
  • Chaguinian, C. (2007). Caïti-Russo, Gilda., Les troubadours et la cour des Malaspina. (Lo gat ros). Montpellier: Montpellier UP, 2005..
  • Chaguinian, C. (2007). Keith Busby, Bernard Guidot and Logan E. Whalen eds., 'De sens rassis' Essays in Honor of Rupert T. Pickens. (Faux Titre, 259). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005..

    • Journal Article

  • Chaguinian, C. (2022). The Good Friday Ceremonies of the Burial of Christ: A Survey of European Practices. European Medieval Drama. 26 41-64. Brepols. https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503597485-1
  • Chaguinian, C. (2020). Y a-t-il eu des marionnettes religieuses au Moyen-Age ? Retour sur l’hypothèse classique de Charles Magnin. Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes. 40 (2) 379-408. Paris, Classiques Garnier. https://journals.openedition.org/crm/
  • Chaguinian, C. (2018). Are the Latin Responsories of the Jeu d’Adam the Source of the Play?”. European Medieval Drama. 21 123-139. Brepols. http://www.brepols.net/Pages/BrowseBySeries.aspx?TreeSeries=EMD
  • Chaguinian, C. (2015). Origine institutionnelle et géographique du Jeu d'Adam: quelques hypothèses. Le Moyen Age. Revue d'histoire et de philologie. 121 (2) 361-82. De Boeck. http://revuesdbsup.cairn.info/revue-le-moyen-age.htm
  • Christophe Chaguinian. (2014). Le Bonheur dans le crime: une lecture maistrienne.. Littératures. 70 179-95. Toulouse, https://litteratures.revues.org/
  • Chaguinian, C. (2013). Traces de la représentation dans le Jeu d'Adam. Le Moyen Age. Revue d'histoire et de philologie. 119 (3-4) 543-66. De Boeck. http://revuesdbsup.cairn.info/revue-le-moyen-age.htm
  • Christophe Chaguinian. (2012). Les Diaboliques: rhétorique et message moral..
  • Christophe Chaguinian. (2011). "Ut pictura poesis: le cas de la Chanson de Roland". Neophilologus. 95 (1) 27-49.
  • Chaguinian, C. (2007). "Alba et gayta: deux définitions à problème de la Doctrina de compondre dictatz et leur possible solution".
  • Chaguinian, C. (2007). L'alba dans le système des genres troubadouresques. Réflexions sur le rapport des troubadours à la production non-troubadouresque. Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale.
  • Chaguinian, C. (2004). "Essai d'établissement de la langue d'origine de la composition Or levez sus, franca cortoiza gan (PC 342, 1) de Peire Espanhol".

Presentations Given

  • The Origin of the Jeu d'Adam: Monastic or Secular?, (2013 - 2013).
  • Ut Pictura Poesis: le cas de la Chanson de Roland, (2011 - 2011).
  • What Cognitive Psychology Can Teach Students of Literature, (2011 - 2011).
  • Ut Pictura Poesis: the cinematographic quality of the Song of Roland, (2010 - 2010).
  • "La modernité comme obstacle à la compréhension des Diaboliques", (2008 - 2008).
  • "The Courtly Non-Troubadouresque Production in Medieval Occitania", (2005 - 2005).
  • "Catalan Poets writing Occitan Lyrics",, (2003 - 2003).

    • Invited Talk

  • Chaguinian, C. (Author & Presenter), Newman Research Seminar in Late Ancient and Byzantine Cultures, Good Friday Ceremonies of the Burial of Christ in Medieval Europe, Newman Institute, Uppsala Sweden, Sweden. (2024 - 2024).

    • Oral Presentation

  • Chaguinian, C. (Author & Presenter), 31th c. Leeds International Medieval Congress, Good Friday Ceremonies of the Burial of Christ after 1570, Leeds, UK, United Kingdom. (2024 - 2024).
  • Chaguinian, C. (Author & Presenter), Twenty-first International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Seeing Is Believing: Medieval Liturgical Ceremonies With The Use Of Articulated Figures, Sorbonne University, Paris, France, France. (2023 - 2023).
  • Chaguinian, C. (Author & Presenter), 28th Leeds International Medieval Congress, The Ceremonies of the Burial of Christ on Good Friday: A Survey of European Practices, Leeds, UK, United Kingdom. (2021 - 2021).
  • Chaguinian, C. (Coordinator/Organizer), 27th Leeds International Medieval Congress, The Ceremonies of the Burial of Christ on Good Friday : A Survey of European Practices, Société internationale pour l'étude du théâtre médiéval, Leeds, UK, United Kingdom. (2020 - 2020).
  • Chaguinian, C. (Presenter), Sixteenth Triennial Colloquium of SITM, Puppets in Medieval Liturgy, SITM (Société internationale pour l'étude du théâtre médiéval), Genoa, Italy, Italy. (2019 - 2019).
  • Chaguinian, C. (Author & Presenter), 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Did Liturgical Puppets Exist in the Middle Ages? Re-Examining Charles Magnin’s classic hypothesis, Kalmazoo, MI, United States of America. (2018 - 2018).
  • Chaguinian, C. (Presenter), 24th Leeds International Medieval Congress, "Are the Latin Responsories of the Jeu d’Adam the Source of the Play?”, Leeds, United Kingdom, United Kingdom. (2017 - 2017).
  • Chaguinian, C. (Presenter), Fifteenth Triennal Colloquium of the Société international pour l'étude du théâtre médiéval, The Carmina Burana Ludus de Passione and its Sources, SITM, Durham, UK, United Kingdom. (2016).
  • Chaguinian, C. (Presenter), 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Large Clerical Dramas of the Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries: A Secular Churches Phenomenon?, Kalamazoo, MI, United States of America. (2015).
  • chaguinian, c. (Presenter), Leeds International Medieval Congress, "The Vernacular Jeu d'Adam: An Ecclesiastical Play?", Leeds, UK, United Kingdom. (2014 - 2014).
  • Chaguinian, C. (Presenter), 11th Annual Conference of the Société of Dix-Neuviémistes, Le Bonheur dans le crime de Barbey d'Auervilly: une lecture maistrienne, Exete, UK, United Kingdom. (2013 - 2013).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Chaguinian, C., "CLASS Small grant," sponsored by Sponsored by CLASS, University of North Texas, $3500 Funded. (2023 - 2023).

Service

University Service

  • Member, Faculty Council. (September 19, 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Chair, Personnel Affairs Committee. (September 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Reappointment, Promotion, Tenure Committee. (August 2018 - Present).
  • Faculty Advisor, Director of Graduate Studies. (August 2017 - Present).
  • Committee Chair, Graduate Affairs Committee. (August 2017 - Present).
  • Director, Tours Exchange Program. (August 2016 - Present).
  • Other (Organizer), French Section Monthly Meeting. (August 2016 - May 2023).
  • Member, Personal Affairs Committee. (August 2019 - May 2022).
  • Committee Member, Faculty Salary Study Committee. (January 2017 - May 2022).
  • Other (Secretary), Executive Committee. (August 2016 - May 2022).
  • Other (In charge of organizing various departmental elections), Election Judge. (2016 - 2020).
  • Faculty Advisor, Brochure to update French MA. (2019).
  • Faculty Advisor, Travel grants for students. (2019 - 2019).
  • Committee Chair, Personnel Affairs Committee. (August 2018 - May 2019).
  • Member, French Search Committee. (August 2017 - May 2018).
  • Member, Reappointment, Promotion, Tenure Committee. (August 2017 - May 2018).
  • Member, French Search Committee. (August 2016 - May 2017).
  • Member, Graduate Affairs Committee. (August 2016 - May 2017).
  • Committee Chair, Personnel Affairs Committee. (August 2016 - May 2017).
  • Other (Secretary), Graduate Affairs Committee. (January 2016 - May 2017).
  • Committee Chair, Reappointment, Promotion, Tenure Committee. (January 2016 - May 2016).
  • Committee Member, Personnel Affairs Committee. (August 2015 - May 2016).
  • Member, Graduate Affairs Committee. (August 2010 - May 2015).
  • Other (Director), COOP Program. (August 2008 - May 2014).
  • Member, Executive Committee. (2011 - 2013).
  • Member, Chair Search Committee. (2011 - 2011).
  • Committee Chair, Speakers Committee. (August 2009 - May 2011).
  • Other (Secretary), Graduate Affairs Committee. (August 2008 - May 2010).
  • Member, Russian Lecturer Search Committee. (2009 - 2009).
  • Member, Speakers Committee. (August 2008 - May 2009).

Professional Service

  • Board of Advisors, International Conference on Animation (Poland). Bialystok, (September 16, 2021 - September 19, 2021).
  • Editorial Review Board Member, European Medieval Drama. (2020 - 2020).
  • Board of Advisors, International Conference on Passion Plays in Spain. Tarragona, (March 27, 2020 - March 28, 2020).