
R. Howard Bloch
今天上了一节很2的英语课,使我觉得自己有必要再把这篇文章翻出来看看。
R. Howard Bloch, formerly a professor of French at U.C.-Berkeley, joined Columbia’s department of French in 1994.
Bloch received the bachelor degree from Amherst College in 1965 and then the doctoral degree from Stanford in 1970.
Bloch is the author of Medieval French Literature and Law, Etymology and Genealogies: A Literary Anthology of the Middle Ages, The Scandal of the Fabliaux, Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love and a novel entitled Moses in the Promised Land. His latest book is God’s Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbe Migne, published by University of Chicago Press.
His articles have appeared in several scholarly journals, including Modern Language Review, Yale French Studies, New Literary History and Poetique. He is also one of the founding editors of the highly successful cultural journal Representations.
A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bloch has been the recipient of an NDEA Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an ACLS Fellowship and the James Russell Lowell Award of the Modern Language Association.
Bloch has served on the board of advisors of the University of California Humanities Research Institute and as the executive director of the France-Berkeley Fund.
这篇文章的译者是吴万伟。
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