Professor Emerita
E-mail: kathryn@hawaii.edu

1890 East-West Rd.
Moore Hall 483
Honolulu, HI 96822

Education

• Ph.D. Romance Philology (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
• M.A. French (San Francisco State University)
• B.A. French (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

As a linguist and medievalist, trained in comparative Romance philology (both medieval language and literature), I had responsibility from 1991 to 2013 for graduate courses in history of the French language and French stylistics. I also taught Old French literature (including readings in Old Provençal troubadour poetry), translation, and advanced French grammar, as well as third-year courses in French phonetics, grammar review, composition, and conversation. Other teaching duties included a seminar on research methods (LLEA 630) and a course in medieval Welsh language and literature (LLEA 682, Masterpieces of Medieval Welsh Literature). I offered a wide variety of topics as directed readings: modern and medieval French epic, literature, and language; two semesters of continued readings in Medieval Welsh literature; introductory Rumanian; dialectology of Corsican; and comparative Romance dialectology and grammar.

Awards

• Chevalier de I’ Ordre des Arts des Lettres (Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication, France)
•  Excellence in Teaching Award (Hawai‘i Association of Language Teachers & HonoluluAdvertiser) 2006.
• Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching, Univ. of Hawai`i at Mānoa 2001.
• Univ. of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Research 1996.
• Camargo Foundation fellowship Fall 1997.

Recent Publications

• 2016 Article: “Occitan Lexicon Online”, Tenso 31 (2016): 107-127. With link to http://klingebiel.com/occitan/dicos.html
• 2014 Article: “Esser et estar dans la Concordance de l’occitan médiéval: contrastes et convergence”. In Los que fan viure e treslusir l’occitan, éd. Carmen Alén Garabato, Claire Torreilles, Marie-Jeanne Verny. Proceedings of Xe Congrès international de l’AIEO (Béziers, 12-18 juin 2011). Limoges: Lambert-Lucas, 971 pp., pp. 165-178.
• 2013 Article: “Actualité du nom troubadouresque dans l’espace du Midi méditerranéen”. In Le Nom propre a-t-il un sens ? Les noms propres dans les espaces méditerranéens, dir. Jean-Claude Bouvier. Aix-en-Provence: Presses universitaires de Provence, 395 pp. Proceedings of the 15e Colloque international d’onomastique (Aix-en-Provence, 9-11 juin 2010), pp. 269-280.
• 2011 Article: Syntaxe de ‘far’ causative dans la COM: “als fols fai cujar lo folatje” (Judici d’amor v.860). Actes du IXe Congrès international de l’AIEO (25-30 Aug. 2008, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany), éd. Angelica Rieger. Aix-la-Chapelle: Shaker, pp. 193-208. («ARA – Aachener romanistische Arbeiten»)
• 2010 Article:       “Les Mots grammaticaux dans la COM: causalité et conjonctions causales”, in Actes du XXVe Congrès International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes (Innsbruck, 3-8 Sept. 2007) (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 7 vols.), vol. 6, pp. 175-184.

 

Occitan Bibliography

• (2012) Bibliographie linguistique (1987-2007) de l’occitan médiéval et moderne. Turnhout (Belgium) : Brepols, 2012. 544 pp. ISBN 978-2-503-53104-5.
• (1999) Bibliographie linguistique (1983-1997) de l’ancien occitan. Montpellier/Birmingham: Association Internationale d’Etudes Occitanes, 1999. iii + 296 pp. ISBN 0-951200-45-3.
• (1986) Bibliographie linguistique (1960-1982) de l’ancien occitan. Romanistik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 19. Hamburg: Buske, 1986. ix + 185 pp. ISBN 3-87118-767-4.
• (annually, since 1998): “Occitan Studies: Language”. In Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies (Oxford).
• (annually, since 1989) “Occitan Linguistic Bibliography”. In Tenso (Louisville, Kentucky, published by Société Guilhem IX). Since Fall 1998, I have also served as Managing Editor of Tenso.