Faculty
Kirsten Fudeman
Assistant Professor of French
Office: 1328 H
Cathedral of Learning
Tel: 412-624-6223
E-mail: fudeman@pitt.edu
Education
PhD, Linguistics, Cornell University
MA, Linguistics, Cornell University
BA, French, and BS, Education, Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests & Fields for Study
French linguistics, Old French, Jewish culture in Medieval France
Teaching
- Written French I
- Stylistics
- French Phonetics
- French Language Past and Present
- History of French (graduate)
- Readings in Old and Middle French (graduate)
Selected Publications
Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).
Co-authored with Mark Aronoff: What is Morphology? (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
"These things will I remember: The Troyes martyrdom and collective memory." Prooftexts, to appear.
"Restoring a vernacular Jewish voice: The Old French Elegy of Troyes." Jewish Studies Quarterly 15 (2008): 190-221.
"Eternal King/King of the World from the Bronze Age to modern times: A study in lexical semantics," co-authored with Mayer Gruber. Revue des études juives 166/1-2 (2007): 209-42.
"They have ears but do not hear: Gendered access to Hebrew and the medieval Hebrew-French wedding song." Jewish Quarterly Review 96/4 (2006): 542-67.
"The Old French glosses in Joseph Kara's Isaiah commentary." Revue des études juives 165/1-2 (2006): 147-77.
"The linguistic significance of the le‘azim in Joseph Kara’s Job commentary." Jewish Quarterly Review 93/3-4 (2003): 397-414.
Awards and Honors
American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant, 2006
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2002
