Daniel E. O’Sullivan is a Professor of French and the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi.
Research Interests
Dr. O'Sullivan's areas of expertise include Medieval vernacular song and songbooks, notions of memory, orality, and textuality in the transmission and performance of medieval song.
Biography
Dr. O'Sullivan arrived at UM in 2002. He has served as Assistant, Associate, and now Professor of French. From 2009 to 2013, he was the Senior Fellow of the Residential College South. Since 2017, he has served as the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages.
Publications
Books
O’Sullivan, Daniel E. An Introduction to the Trouvères. In progress and under contract with the University of Florida Press.
O’Sullivan, Daniel E., Christopher Callahan, and Marie-Geneviève Grossel, eds. Les Chansons de Thibaut IV, Roi de Navarre. Textes et Mélodies. Paris: Champion, 2018.
O’Sullivan, Daniel E. and Laine Doggett, eds. Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies. Suffolk, UK: Boydell and Brewer, March 2016.
Articles
O’Sullivan, Daniel E. "Beyond the Chanson: (Less) Successful Troubadour Genres in Trouvère Lyric," Tenso 36 (2021): 101-119.
O’Sullivan, Daniel E. "Transcription and Musical Memory in the Occitan Chansonnier in Paris, BnF French 795,” New Perspective in Materiality, Interpretation and Visual Poetics. Eds. by Beatrice Arduini, Isabella Magni, and Jelena Todorovic. Leiden: Brill, 2021. 35-48.
O’Sullivan, Daniel E. “Visualizing Chess and Love in Les Eschez d’Amours,” Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages. Eds. Elizabeth Lapina and Vanina Kopp. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. 129-144.
O’Sullivan, Daniel E., “The Northern French jeu-parti,” Musical Culture in the World of Adam de la Halle. Ed. Jennifer Saltzstein. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 153-188.
O’Sullivan, Daniel E., “Troubadour Lyric, Fin’Amors, and Rape Culture,” Teaching Rape: Approaches to Difficult Texts in the Medieval Literature Classroom. Ed. Allison Gulley. Arc Humanities Press: 2018. 151-163.
O’Sullivan, Daniel E., Christopher Callahan, Marie-Geneviève Grossel, and William Hudson. “Thibaut de Champagne au XXIe siècle: l’édition de trouvère dans son contexte culturel” Philologie et musicologie (Acts of 2015 conference), 2019, 61-78.
Courses Taught
- Fr 574 History of the French Language
- Fr 577 Survey of French Literature
- Fr 582 Medieval and Renaissance French Literature
- Fr 588 Chrétien de Troyes and His World
- Fr 324 French Cuisine and Culture
- FR 323 La Chanson Francophone
Education
B.A. French, College of the Holy Cross (1992)
M.A. French, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1994)
Ph.D. Romantic Languages, Boston College (2000)
Recognitions
- Travel Grant, Southeastern Conference, 2017
- Faculty Achievement Award, University of Mississippi , 2017
- Scholarship Award, Southeastern Medieval Association, 2017
- UM Teacher of the Year, Mississippi Humanities Council , 2008
- Outstanding Teacher of the Year, College of Liberal Arts, UM, 2008