David Rollo

Tenure Track Appointments

• Adeline Arnold Loridans Professor, Department Chair, Department of Foreign Languages, Agnes Scott College, 1998 – 1999
• Associate Professor, French, Dartmouth College, 1994 – 1997
• Assistant Professor, French, Dartmouth College, 1988 – 1994

Research, Teaching, Practice, and Clinical Appointments

• Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor, French, Dartmouth College, 1987-1988

Visiting and Temporary Appointments

• Visiting Assistant Professor, English, University of Southern California, 1990-1991

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Medieval English, French and Latin literature, with a particular emphasis on: 12th-century perceptions of ethnic and cultural difference; literacy and exclusion; hermaphroditism

Conference Presentations

• “Eating the Body of Christ in The Book of Margery Kempe” , Eat, Drink, and be Merry in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods. SASMARS 25 (Remote)Talk/Oral Presentation, Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2022-2023
• “Gender, Dissent, and Revelation in the Works of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich” , Contra Imperium: Forms of Dissent in England, 1300 – 1700 (Remote)Talk/Oral Presentation, Università Dell’Insubria, Como, Italy, 2021-2022
• “Vision, Knowledge and Nature in Alain de Lille’s De planctu Naturae” , XXV Annual Colloquium of SIEPM (Remote)Talk/Oral Presentation, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, 2020-2021
• “Language and Identity in Twelfth-Century Insular Culture” , The Days of Justinian I: VII SymposiumTalk/Oral Presentation, Cathedral Church of St Clement of Ohrid/Macedonia Gate, Skopje, North Macedonia, 2019-2020
• “Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich and Divine Revelation” , Gender in Global Medieval MysticismLecture/Seminar, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana, India (Covid-cancelled), 2019-2020
• “The Corpse of the Immortal Arthur” , Medievalism between East and WestTalk/Oral Presentation, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 2019-2020
• “The Materiality of the Sign: Lollard Interpretations of the Icon and the Body” , Medieval Europe in Motion V: Materialities and DevotionsTalk/Oral Presentation, Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitória, Batalha, Portugal, 2019-2020
• “William of Malmesbury and Post-Conquest Insular Culture” , 31st International Congress of SELIMTalk/Oral Presentation, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain, 2019-2020
• “Alexander the Great and Medieval China” , XXII Congress of the ICLATalk/Oral Presentation, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China, 2018-2019
• “From St. Peter’s in Beauvais to St. Peter’s in Constantinople: Sanctuaries for the Untranslated in Chrétien de Troyes’ Cligès” , 52nd Congress of the Medieval Association of the PacificTalk/Oral Presentation, Phoenix, 2018-2019
• “The Arthurian Past and Twelfth-Century Perceptions of History” , 7th Symposium for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, SLU, St Louis, 2018-2019
• “The Ascendancy of Venus in Martianus Capella’s De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii” , Uncovering the Body: Gender and Sexuality in Late AntiquityTalk/Oral Presentation, CEU, Budapest, Hungary, 2018-2019
• “The Land that Lies beyond India” , 2019 Conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative LiteratureTalk/Oral Presentation, Changsha, China, 2018-2019
• “To Be a Proper Man: The Pardoner, Holy Bollocks, and Reading the Roman de la Rose” , Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Chaucer and EuropeTalk/Oral Presentation, IES, St Bride’s, London, UK, 2018-2019
• “A Meeting of Medievalists: Los Angeles 2017” Conference Organizer/Host, USC, Los Angeles, 2017-2018
• “To Enter the Pit of Gaping Ruin: Corporeal Metaphors in Peter Damian’s Liber Gomorrhianus” , A Meeting of Medievalists: Los Angeles, 2017Talk/Oral Presentation, USC, Los Angeles, 2017-2018
• “Alain de Lille, Nature, and Fallen Language” , XIV Congress of SIEPM, “Homo, Natura, Mundus”Talk/Oral Presentation, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2016-2017
• “Chrétien de Troyes and the Language of the New Troy” , 5th International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance CultureTalk/Oral Presentation, Centre of Visual Arts and Research, Severis Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus , 2016-2017
• “Preserving and Presenting the Medieval” , 51st Congress of the Medieval Association of the PacificConference Organizing Committee, Fundraiser, Presenter, Invited, LMU, Los Angeles, 2016-2017
• “Subterranean Greek-Speaking Faeries and Chrétien de Troyes” , 15th Biennial Conference on Romance in Medieval BritainTalk/Oral Presentation, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, 2016-2017
• “The Narrative Voice of Divine Imperative in Le Morte Darthur” , 5th Symposium for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesTalk/Oral Presentation, SLU, St Louis, 2016-2017
• “Alain de Lille, Nature, and Fallen Language” , XXI Congress of the ICLATalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2015-2016
• “Hermaphroditism and Liberation” , 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies Roundtable/Panel, Invited, WMU, Kalamazoo, 2015-2016
• “Hermaphroditus and Pygmalion in the Roman de la Rose” , 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies Talk/Oral Presentation, Invited, WMU, Kalamazoo, 2015-2016
• “Oriental Fantasy in Lambert le Tort’s Roman d’Alexandre” , 8th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Medieval European StudiesTalk/Oral Presentation, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 2015-2016
• “Oriental Fantasy in Lambert le Tort’s Roman d’Alexandre” , 50th Congress of the Medieval Association of the PacificTalk/Oral Presentation, UC Davis, 2015-2016
• “The Fourth Lateran Council and its Unforeseen Literary Consequences” , Concilium Lateranese IVTalk/Oral Presentation, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy, 2015-2016
• “Christian Exegesis, Demonic Interpretation and Early Romance” , 3rd International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance CultureTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Centre of Visual Arts and Research, Severis Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2014-2015
• “Muslim/Pagan Relations in the Old French Alexander Cycle” , Leeds International Medieval Congress 2015Talk/Oral Presentation, Leeds University, UK, 2014-2015
• “Pope Gregory VI and the Witch/Prostitute of Berkeley” , William of Malmesbury and his LegacyTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford University, UK, 2014-2015
• “The Anti-Augustinian Pleasures of the Early Insular Romance” , 49th Congress of the Medieval Association of the PacificTalk/Oral Presentation, University of Nevada, Reno, 2014-2015
• “Christian Exegesis, Demonic Interpretation and Early Romance” , Interpretative ConflationsTalk/Oral Presentation, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, 2013-2014
• “Muslim/Pagan Relations in the Old French Alexander Cycle” , 2nd International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance CultureTalk/Oral Presentation, Cyprus College of Art, Carnaro Institute, Larnaca, Cyprus., 2013-2014
• “Pygmalion and Hermaphroditus in the Roman de la Rose” , Medieval Intersex: Language and Hermaphroditism, 2nd Symposium for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, SLU, St Louis, 2013-2014
• “Reading and Interpretation in the Early Arthurian Romance” , 24th Congress of the IASTalk/Oral Presentation, Universitatea din Bucuresti, Bucharest, Romania, 2013-2014
• “Reading the Romance of the Rose: Hermeneutics, Knowledge, and Desire.” , 49th International Congress on Medieval StudiesRoundtable/Panel, Invited, WMU, Kalamazoo, 2013-2014
• “Alain de Lille’s De planctu Naturae: Feminine Love and the Pleasures of Reading” , Sourcing EmotionsTalk/Oral Presentation, UWA, Perth, Australia, 2012-2013
• “Islam in the Alexandre en Orient” , 47th Congress of the Medieval Association of the PacificTalk/Oral Presentation, USD, San Diego, 2012-2013
• “Space, Time and Religion in the Alexandre en Orient” , Islam and the Medieval MediterraneanTalk/Oral Presentation, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK, 2012-2013
• “Space, Time and Religion in the Alexandre en Orient” , Romance: Places, Times, ModesTalk/Oral Presentation, University College, Cork, Ireland, 2012-2013
• “The Living Corpse of the Past” , The Life of the Dead in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. SASMARS 21Talk/Oral Presentation, Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2012-2013
• “The Seductive Insular Origins of Continental French Romance” , Medieval Francophone Culture Outside FranceTalk/Oral Presentation, University College London, UK, 2012-2013
• “A Devil who Deceived by Enchantment” , Think RomanceTalk/Oral Presentation, Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, New York, 2011-2012
• “The Anti-Augustinian Pleasures of the Early Insular Romance” , 13th Biennial Conference on Romance in Medieval Britain Talk/Oral Presentation, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK, 2011-2012
• “1066 and Fiction” , The Future of the PastTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, UCLA/Getty Center, Los Angeles, 2010-2011
• “Alain de Lille and Jean de Meun” Lecture/Seminar, Invited, King’s College, Cambridge, UK, 2009-2010
• “Hermaphroditism and Cross-Dressing in the Romance of the Rose: Textual and Pictorial Evidence” Lecture/Seminar, Invited, School of Art History and World Art Studies, UEA, UK, 2009-2010
• “17th-Century Irish Responses to Gerald of Wales” , Questioning ColonialismTalk/Oral Presentation, UM, Miami, 2006-2007
• “Alain de Lille and the New Hermaphroditus” , Medieval Gender and EcstasyTalk/Oral Presentation, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK, 2005-2006
• “Peter the Venerable and Islam” , 2002 Kentucky Foreign Language ConferenceTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 2001-2002
• “Magic and Literacy in the Twelfth Century: Some Comments” , 71st Annual Convention of SAMLATalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Atlanta, GA, 1999-2000
• “Gerald of Wales, Celtic Verse and Musical Historiography” , 1999 Kentucky Foreign Language ConferenceTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1998-1999
• “Jason’s Voyage to Colchis and Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Quest for The Golden Fleece” , 69th Annual Convention of SAMLATalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Atlanta, GA, 1997-1998
• “English and British History in the Gesta regum Anglorum of William of Malmesbury” , 1996 Dartmouth Colloquium in French and Italian LiteraturesTalk/Oral Presentation, Minary Center, Dartmouth College, 1996-1997
• ” A Land Divided: The Literature of Civil Strife and National Identity in the Middle Ages.” Conference Organizer/Host, Minary Center, Dartmouth College, 1994-1995
• “Literacy, Bilingualism, Dissemination in Le Roman de Troie” , 1993 Kentucky Foreign Language ConferenceTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1992-1993
• “Writing about Britain in Alien Forms: The Examples of Wace and Gerald of Wales” , 7th Triennial Congress of The International Courtly Literature SocietyTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, UMass, Amherst, 1992-1993
• “Orality, Literacy and Comprehensibility in the Twelfth-Century Romance” Lecture/Seminar, Invited, Department of English, UC Santa Barbara, 1991-1992
• “The Medieval Canon and the Challenge of the Vernacular” Conference Organizer/Host, Dartmouth College, 1990-1991
• “The Theft of the Palladium: Canonicity, Literacy, Dissemination in Le Roman de Troie” , 1990 Dartmouth Colloquium in French and ItalianRoundtable/Panel, Minary Center, Dartmouth College, 1989-1990
• “Anglo-Norman Historiography and the Old Provençal Song of the Albigensian Crusade” , 26th Annual Congress of NEMSTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Plymouth State University, NH, 1988-1989
• “From Psyche to Enide: The Epiphany of Femininity in Erec et Enide” , The Ancient Novel: Classical Paradigms and Modern PerspectivesTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Dartmouth College, 1988-1989
• “Flamenca: Intergeneric Conjointure as Political Allegory” , Convention of the MLATalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, San Francisco, 1987-1988
• “From Erec et Enide to Flamenca” Lecture/Seminar, Invited, Department of French and Italian, Amherst College, 1987-1988

Book

• Rollo, D. I. (2022). Medieval Writings on Sex between Men: Peter Damian’s, “The Book of Gomorrah” and Alain de Lille’s, “The Plaint of Nature.” Introduced and Translated from the Latin by David Rollo. Leiden: Brill.
• Rollo, D. I. (2011). Kiss My Relics: Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages. Chicago, Il: University of Chicago Press.
• Rollo, D. I. (2000). Glamorous Sorcery: Magic and Literacy in the High Middle Ages. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
• Rollo, D. I. (1998). Historical Fabrication, Ethnic Fable and French Romance in Twelfth-Century England. Lexington. KY: French Forum.

Book Chapter

• Rollo, D. I. (2017). Malory, Merlin and the Contrivances of “a Devyls Son”. Timely Voices: Romance in English Literature pp. 113-39. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• Rollo, D. I. (2013). Violence and Violation in the Work of Benoît de Sainte-Maure. Violence and the Writing of History pp. 117-32. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer.

Journal Article

• Rollo, D. I. (2017). Venerating Nature’s Deviance in the Roman de la Rose. postmedieval. Vol. 9.2, pp. 147-60.
• Rollo, D. I. (2015). The Legacy of Geoffrey of Monmouth. Exemplaria. Vol. 27.3, pp. 262-69.
• Rollo, D. I. (2013). Sanctioned Desires in Alain de Lille’s De Planctu Naturae. Exemplaria. Vol. 25.2, pp. 152-72.

• General Education Teaching Awards, 2000-2001

Administrative Appointments

• Director of Graduate Admissions, Department of English, 2016-2020
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, 2016-2017
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, 2009-2012
• Director of Graduate Admissions, Department of English, 2002-2005