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Olga Anna Duhl, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures at Lafayette, will speak on “Playing with Words and Images: Renaissance Models for Cultural Revival in Late Nineteenth-Century France,” at 8 p.m., Monday, April 9, in the auditorium of Kirby Hall of Civil Rights.
The talk, the second of two Jones Faculty Lectures for the 2000-01 academic year, is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by Lafayette’s Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Faculty Lecture and Awards Fund, established in 1966 to recognize superior teaching and scholarship. A reception will follow the lecture.
“A period of political and moral crisis in French history, the late 19th century is best known, however, for its innovative cultural achievements,” says Duhl. “The recently rediscovered collaborative works of the Parisian community of Montmatre bring new testimony to this. Although anarchic in their overall approach to traditional literary and art forms, thus paving the way for such avant garde movements as surrealism, dada, and performance art, they drew their favorite means of expression from the verbal and visual experiments of 16th century Renaissance authors.”
Duhl joined the Lafayette faculty in 1992. She is the author of Folie et rhétorique dans la sottie, published in 1994 by Droz. She also has written numerous book chapters, book reviews, articles, and translations, including publications in The New Dictionary of National Biography, Fifteenth-Century Studies, Le Moyen Francais, Romance Quarterly, Studi francesi, and Réforme Humanisme Renaissance. She is on the editorial board of Revue d’études francaises.
Duhl has given papers and lectures at International Conferences of Middle French Studies, Montreal, Canada; Renaissance Society of America Conferences, Vancouver, Canada, and Bloomington, Indiana; the International Conference on French Women Writers during the Ancién Regime, St. Louis, Mo.; the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Mo.; the Thirteenth Annual Medieval and Renaissance Conference, New York; and other events.
She holds a master’s degree in French from the University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and a doctoral degree in French from Rutgers University.
Duhl’s awards include a Pro-Cultura Grant for the Humanities, 1998; research grants in 1993, 1994, and 1997, Lafayette College; Mellon Foundation Grants in 1996 and 1998; a Marandon Fellowship for Research in France, 1990; a University Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1990-91; and a Marion Johnson Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1989.