Edward J. Gallagher
Henrietta Jennings Professor of French Studies
Office: Meneely 109
Phone: (508)286-3614
Fax: (508) 285-8263
Email: egallagh@wheatoncollege.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., Brown Universiy
A.M., Brown University
A.B., LaSalle University (Philadelphia)
Main Interests
Medieval French Literature, especially religious theatre, hagiography, the Tristan legend, and Marie de France
Research Interests
Medieval French Literature and the modern French novel
Other Interests
Religion and Society in Henrican and Marian England
Student Projects
I directed an honors thesis by Monica Fernandes on three romances by the 12th-century writer Chrétien de Troyes; and another by Molly Martin on Emma Bovary and frustrated desire. Cindy Grégoire undertook an independent project on Joseph Bédier, Béroul, and the Tristan Legend; Marie Chantal Tuffet worked on La princesse de Clèves
Selected Publications, Creative Work or Performances
Books:
A Critical Edition of La Passion Nostre Seigneur from MS 1131 from the Bibliothèque
Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures,
number 179. Chapel Hill: Department of Romance Languages (distributed by University
of North Carolina Press), 1976.
Textual Hauntings: Studies in Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Mauriac's Thérèse
Desqueyroux. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America (an imprint of the Rowman
and Littlefield Publishing Group), 2005.
Book Chapter:
"'This Too You Ought to Read': Bédier's Roman de Tristan et Iseut" Tristan and Isolde: A
Casebook, ed. Joan T. Grimbert. New York and London: Garland, 1995 (rpt: New York:
Routledge, 2002), pp. 425-450.
Articles:
"A Checklist of Nineteenth-Century French Titles on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum,"
Romance Notes 19 (1978), 196-205.
"Sources and Secondary Characterization in the Sainte-Geneviève Passion Nostre
Seigneur," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 79 (1978), 173-179.
"Novel into Film: An Experimental Course," with Richard Admussen and Lubbe Levin,
Literature/Film Quarterly 6 (1978), 66-72.
"Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut by Joseph Bédier, Rénovateur of Béroul and Thomas,"
Tristania: A Journal Devoted to Tristan Studies 6, ii (1980), 3-15.(Abstracted in BBSIA,
33 (1981), p. 78.)
"Political Polarities in the Writings of Rousseau," New Zealand Journal of French Studies
2, ii (1981), 21-42.
"Une Reconstitution à la Viollet-le-Duc: More on Bédier's Roman de Tristan et Iseut,"
Tristania: A Journal Devoted to Tristan Studies 8, i (1982), 18-28. (Abstracted in BBSIA,
37 (1985), p. 130.)
"'Différent de soi-même': The Altered Self in Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola," French Studies
Bulletin 20 (1986), 9-11.
"Sexual Ambiguity in Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux," Romance Notes 26 (1986), 215-
221. (Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 24, ed. J. Hill and L. J. Trudeau. Detroit:
Gale, 1997, pp. 193-195.)
"'Some Spiritual Empire!': The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act of 1956 and The Irish
Diaspora," Etudes Irlandaises 13, ii (1988), 131-139.
"The Visio Lazari, The Cult, and The Old French Life of Saint Lazarus: An Overview,"
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 90 (1989), 331-339.
"Heavenly Bodies: Doctrinal Parody in Flaubert's Un coeur simple," New Zealand Journal of
French Studies 12, ii (1991), 16-23.
"The Modernity of Le Roman de Silence," The University of Dayton Review 21, iii (1992),
31-42.
"Bédier and the Tristan Legend: The Case of the Bride Quest Episodes," Tristania: A Journal
Devoted to Tristan Studies 17 (1996), 27-38.
"Last (W)rites: Extreme Unction and Flaubert's Madame Bovary," French Studies Bulletin 63
(Summer 1997), 8-10.
"Undiscovered Countries: The Role of Some Minor Characters in Flaubert's Madame
Bovary," French Studies Bulletin 64 (Winter 1997), 7-11.
"Narrative Uncertainty in Flaubert's Madame Bovary," Orbis Litterarum 53 (1998), 312-
317.
"A Response to Mary Orr's 'Reflections on Bovarysme: the Bovarys at Vaubyessard'"
(FSB,61, Winter 1996, 6-8), French Studies Bulletin 65 (Spring 1998), 12-13.
"The Eucharist in Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux,"
Dalhousie French Studies 44 (1998), 115-122.
"Monsieur Bournisien: Flaubert's Curé de Campagne," Dalhousie French Studies 51 (2000),
45-57.
"Displacements of the Maternal in Flaubert's Madame Bovary," Romance Languages
Annual 11 (2000), 37-42.
"Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux: Influence with no
Apparent Anxiety," Dalhousie French Studies 57 (2001), 25-35.
"'Aussi réelle que l'autre:' Alterity in Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux," Romance Notes 43
(2003), 209-218.
"A Response to Alan Raitt's 'The Strange Case of Emma Bovary's Brother,'" (French Studies
Bulletin 66, Spring 1998, 4-7), French Studies Bulletin 86 (Spring 2003), 16-18.
"Photo Negativity in Flaubert and Mauriac," French Studies Bulletin 88 (Autumn 2003), 9-
14.
"Lessons from a Fifteenth-Century Hagiographic Cycle: the Case of the Martyrs' Plays from
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève MS 1131," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 101 (2005), 35-
47.
"Adam and Eve in Fourteenth-Century Paris: Overlooked Scenes of the Fall in the Nativity
and the Resurrection plays of MS 1131 from the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris,"
Studia Neophilologica 78 (2006), 176-183.
"Civic Patroness and Moral Guide: The Role of the Eponymous Heroine in the Miracles de
Sainte Geneviève (c.1420) from MS 1131 from the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris,"
Studia Neophilologica 80 (2008), 30-42.
"Saint Fiacre in Early Sixteenth-Century Paris: the 1529 Drama of His Life Before
Meaux," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 108, 3 (2008), 331-346.
Reviews:
A Review of Geoffrey Brereton, A Short History of French Literature. Choice, October,
1976, p. 988.
A Review of J. Lindsay, The Troubadours and Their World of the Twelfth and Thirteenth
Centuries. Choice, October, 1977, p. 1062.
A Review of Françoise Vielliard, Manuscrits français du moyen âge. Olifant: A
Publication of the Société Rencesvals, 5 (1978), 317-321.
A Review of The Lais of Marie de France, translated by John Hanning and Joan Ferrante,
forward by John Fowles. Choice, July-August, 1979, p. 674.
A Review of Mary Jane Stearns Schenck, The Fabliaux: Tales of Wit and Deception.
Modern Language Studies, 20 (1990), 117-120.
A Review of Approaches to Teaching Flaubert's Madame Bovary, eds. Lawrence Porter
and Eugene Gray (New York: MLA, 1995). Arachne, 5 (2) 1998, 107-110.
A Review of Dacia Maraini, Searching for Emma: Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary.
New Zealand Journal of French Studies, 20, i (1999), 37-39.
A Review of François Mauriac. Thérèse Desqueyroux. Translated by Raymond N.
MacKenzie. Dalhousie French Studies, 73 (2005), 156-161.
A Review of Approaches to Teaching the Song of Roland, eds. William W. Kibler and
Leslie Z. Morgan (New York: MLA, 2006). Dalhousie French Studies, 80 (2007), 173-175.