John Ford

Recherche

Thème

Littérature anglaise et anglo-normande médievales; Langue et littérature en moyen anglais; Langue et littérature en vieil anglais; historical linguistics and phililogie; phonetics and phonology.

Medieval English and Anglo-Norman literature; Middle English language and literature; Old English language and literature; linguistique diachronique et la philologie; phonétique et phonologie.

Mots-clés

les roman en vers du moyen anglais (Middle English verse romances), la poésie et la littérature en vers (poetry and verse literature), oralité en littérature (orality), littérature en vers, la sexualité et le genre en littérature médievale (gender and sexuality in medieval literature), philologie (philology), linguisitique diachronique (historical linguistics).

Activités scientifiques

Activités et responsabilités nationales

Commissions de Spécialistes et/ou Comités de sélection de l’INU Champollion (Hiring Committees of Champollion University):

2016: MCF en anglais (Selection of Associate Professor in English).
2012: MCF en anglais (Selection of Associate Professor in English).
2008: MCF en espagnol (Selection of Associate Professor in Spanish).
2009: PRAG en lettres modernes (Selection of Qualified Instructor French Language and Literature).
2009: MCF en LEA-espagnol (Selection of Associate Professor in Spanish for the diploma of Applied Foreign Language).

Institut Catholique de La Roche-sur-Yon:

2007-2008: Membre de l'Equipe Pédagogique du Département d'anglais de l'Institut Catholique de La Roche-sur-Yon (Pedagogical Planning Committee and Advisory Board for the English Department of the Catholic University of La Roche-sur-Yon).
2007-2008: Membre du Jury d'Etudes de l'IC de La Roche-sur-Yon (Member of the Committee of Evaluation for the Catholic University of La Roche-sur-Yon.
- Civilisation Américaine (American Civilization and History).
- Civilisation Britannique (British Civilization and History).
- Littérature en anglais (English Literature).
- Anglais pour non-spécialistes de mathematique (ESL for students of Mathematics).
- Anglais pour non-spécialistes de science politique (ESL for students of Political Science).

Publications

Publications internationales

Ouvrage/Monograph:

Ford, John (ed.) Anglo-Norman Amys e Amilion: The Text of MS Karlsruhe 345, Codex Durlac 38 in Parallel with MS London Royal 12.C.XII. Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. Medium Aevum Monograph (new series) XXVII (2011). (Retenu par le jury en 2012 pour le Prix de Recherche de la Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de l’Association Française d’Études Américaines.)

Chapitres d'ouvrages/book chapters:

Ford, John. “Travel in the Middle English Matter of England Romances, and the Changing Significations of Horses and Horsemanship.” In Horses Across the Medieval World. Eds. Anastasija Ropa and Timothy Dawson. Leiden: Brill (2022): 79-111.
Ford, John. “‘Once More into the Breach!’: Allusions to Agincourt and the Medieval Past in Cross-Channel Political Reporting of Brexit.” In Politics and Medievalism (Studies) II. Studies in Medievalism Series 30. Ed. Karl Fugelso. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer (2021): 55–73.
Ford, John ‘Speaking of Reading and Reading the Evidence: Allusions to Literacy in the Oral Tradition of the Middle English Verse Romances,’ Chapter 1 of The History of Reading, Vol.1: International Perspectives, c.1500-1900. Eds. W.R. Owens and Shafquat Towheed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers (2011): 15-31. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9780230316782_2.
Ford, John. “In Romance as We Read and as We Hear in Geste: Written Orality in the Medieval ‘Short Story’: the Verse Romances of the 13th and 14th Centuries.” Journal of the Short Story in English, Special Issue 47. (2006): 29-48. https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/726.

Articles revues (avec comité de lecture)/Journal articles (peer-review):

Ford, John. “Birds of a Feather: Gay Uncle Jack and Queer Cousin Francis in To Kill a Mockingbird.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews (2022): DOI: 10.1080/0895769X.2021.1980716.
Ford, John and Sarali Gintsburg. Introduction. Transitional Texts: Drifting between the Oral and the Written. Ed. Sarali Gintsburg, John C. Ford and Asier Barandiaran Amarika. RILCE: Revista de filología hispánica, Número extraordinario monográfico 36.4 (Dec., 2020): 1275–1323. DOI: 10.15581/008.36.4.1239-50.
Ford, John. “Inverse Relationship of Orally-Based Noetic Processing and Skeuomorphic Formulaicity in the Middle English ‘Matter of England’ Verse Romances.” Transitional Texts: Drifting between the Oral and the Written. Ed. Sarali Gintsburg, John C. Ford and Asier Barandiaran Amarika. RILCE: Revista de filología hispánica, Número extraordinario monográfico 36.4 (Dec., 2020): 1275–1323. DOI: 10.15581/008.36.4.1275-323.
Ford, John. “Land Tenure in The Tale of Gamelyn.” Medium Ævum 89.1 (2020): 23–49. https://aevum.space/system/files/pp._23-49_ford.pdf.
Ford, John. “Two or III Feet Apart: Oral Recitation, Roman Numerals, and Metrical Regularity in Capystranus.” Neophilologus (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-018-9567-7
Ford, John. “Same Old New South? Stone Mountain Park and the Theme of Pride over Prejudice.” Les Cahiers de FRAMESPA, Special Issue: Staging American Dreams. 2017. https://journals.openedition.org/framespa/4258.
Ford, John. “Give or Take – a Reinterpretation of Line 800 of King Horn.” The Mediaeval Journal 5.1 (2015): 35-54. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.TMJ.5.107362.
Ford, John. “Merry Married Brothers: Wedded Friendship, Lovers’ Language and Male Matrimonials in Two Middle English Romances.” Medieval Forum 3 (2003). 10 pages: http://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/
Ford, John. “Towards a New Understanding of Formulae: Prototypes and the Mental Template.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 103.2 (2002): 205-226.
Ford, John. “Contrasting the Identical: Differentiation of the ‘Indistinguishable’ Characters of Amis and Amiloun.” Neophilologus 86.2 (2002): 311-323. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1014428421031.

Recensions d'ouvrages (journaux scientifique)/Review articles (in scholarly journals):

Ford, John. Solicited Review: Mockingbird Grows Up: Re-Reading Harper Lee since Watchman, eds. Cheli Reutter and Jonathan S. Cullick (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2020), The ALH (American Literary History) Online Review Series 26,1 (Winter 2021): https://academic.oup.com/alh/pages/alh-online-review-series-26.
Ford, John. Sollicited Review: Trinity Apocalypse. Ed. Ian Short (Oxford: ANTS, 2016). Speculum 93.3 (2018): 908-09. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/698539.
Ford, John. Review Essay: Formulaicity in Jbala Poetry. By S. Y. Gintsburg. (Tilburg: Prisma Print, 2014). Sociolinguistic Studies 10.1-2. (IV-2016): 291-310. DOI: 10.1558/sols.v10i1-2.28846.
Ford, John. Review: Medieval Hackers. By Kathleen E. Kennedy. (punctum books, 2015). The Medieval Review (15-VIII-2015): https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/19629.
Ford, John. Review: Les Renaissances 1453-1559. By Philippe Hamon. Histoire de France 5. Ed. Joël Cornette. (Paris: Belin, 2009). The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 43.1 (2012): 161-62.
Ford, John. Review: Les Guerres de Religion 1559-1629. By Nicolas Le Roux. Histoire de France 4. Ed. Joël Cornette. (Paris: Belin, 2009). The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 42.4 (2011): 1132-33.
Ford, John. Review: Idleness Working, the Discourse of Love’s Labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower. By Gregory M. Sadlek (Washington: CUA Press, 2004). The Medieval Review (03-III-2006): https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/16117/22235.

Publications nationales

Articles dans revues scientifiques (avec comité de lecture)/Journal articles (peer-review):

Ford, John. “Ignoring Crecy, Forgoing Poitiers and Adding to Agincourt: (For)getting the Battles Right in the Record.” Shakespeare en devenir 16: 'Views from and of the Renaissance' 'Historicizing events: facts or fiction' (2022): DOI: https://shakespeare.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2667.
Ford, John. “Same Old New South? Stone Mountain Park and the Theme of Pride over Prejudice.” Les Cahiers de FRAMESPA, Special Issue: Staging American Dreams (2017): https://journals.openedition.org/framespa/4258.
Ford, John. “In Romance as We Read and as We Hear in Geste: Written Orality in the Medieval ‘Short Story’: The Verse Romances of the 13th and 14th Centuries.” Journal of the Short Story in English, Special Issue 47. (2006): 29–48. http://jsse.revues.org/index726.html.
Ford, John. “Evolution and Devolution: An Examination of the Historical Development of Scottish English.” La Tribune Internationale des Langues Viviantes 36. (2004): 12-23.
Ford, John. “Metatextual Evidence of a Manuscript Relation Based on Correlation of Rubrication and Decorated Capitals in a Translated Medieval Text.” PECIA : Ressources en médiévistique 4 (2004): 1-28.
Ford, John. “There’s Something Amis(s) with your New Ami: Translation and Adaptation in the Middle English Version of Amis and Amiloun.” Paroles et silences, Publication de l’Association des Médiévistes-Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur, HS 10 (2003): 95-118.

Conférences internationales

“From the Arcane to the Mundane: Portrayals of Literacy in the Middle English Verse Romances.” Middle English Literature and Culture Session. 36th Annual Colloquium of SELIM (Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature). Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, Spain, 15 September 2022.
“Isochrony of Middle English and Anglo-Norman, and its Bearing on Verse in French Romance.” 12th International Conference on Middle English. University of Glasgow, 24 August 2022.: https://icome2022.gla.ac.uk/programme/presenters/.
“Oral Elements as Literary Skeuomorphs in the Middle English Verse Romances.” Invited speaker at ORFORCREA Seminar organized by the Institute for Society and Culture. Universidad de Navarra. 20 September 2019.
“‘Once More into the Breach!’: Brexit and England Against France (Again).” Medievalism in Popular Culture, Session: “Medievalism and Historicity.” 22nd Annual Conference of the PCA/ACA (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association). Washington, D.C., 18 April 2019.
“Ful nobelelike upon a stede or Overþwert upon an asse: Significance of Equid Mounts (and Other Quadrupeds) in the Middle English Verse Romances.” Session 908: “Reconstructing the Medieval Horse: A Round Table Discussion.” 25th International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, 3 July 2018.
“Vikings in the Classroom: Popular Television as an Effective Tool for Teaching Old English and Icelandic Studies.” IMC Programming Committee Session: “Based on Historical Events?: TV Medievalism.” 25th International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, 3 July 2018.
“‘Oure maister is icrouned • of outlawes kyng’: Resisting Authority and the Establishment of the Heroic Outlaw Motif in the ‘Tale of Gamelyn’” Session 8: Outlaw Acts. 44th Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. University of the South, 13 April 2018.
“Two or III Feet Apart: The Effect on Meter of Numerical Expressions Provided Orthographically or in Roman Notation in Middle English Verse Romance.” 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. University of Western Michigan, 12-15 May 2016.
“The Viking Voyage Comes Full Circle: Sagas and Chronicles in Popular Television as an Effective Tool for Teaching Icelandic and Old English Studies.” Medievalism in Popular Culture, Session 5: “Teaching and Medievalism.” 19th Annual Conference of the PCA/ACA (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association). Seattle, 22-25 March 2016.
“Ignoring Crecy, Forgetting Poitiers and Avoiding Agincourt: (For)Getting the Battles Right in the Record” Conference: Azincourt/Agincourt: Représentations franco-anglaises de la Guerre de Cent ans/Remembering and Representing the Hundred Years’ War. Université Toulouse II-Jean-Jaurès, 6 November 2015.
“The Same Old New South: Pride or Prejudice?” 5th Annual Conference of Staging American Memories/Mise en Scène de la Memoire aux Amériques. Université de Toulouse II, 13-14 March 2014.
“‘Tant dit Engleterre en franceis / Cum dit Englelande en Engleis’: The Influence of English Language, Prosody, and Poetry on the Anglo-Norman Dialect and its Verse.” IMC Programming Committee Session: “Aspects of Language: Verbs, Grammar, Dialect.” 20th International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, 2 July 2013.
“Lionheart in Heart of France” 33rd Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies: Putting England in Its Place: Cultural Production and Cultural Relations in the High Middle Ages. Fordham University, New York, 9-10 March 2013.
“Plaits Wretched, False Oaths and Honest Knights.” IMC Programming Committee Session: “Middle English Romance and Arthuriana I.” 19th International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, 11 July 2012.
“The Metaphor(s) of the Metamorphosis: Chaucer’s Loathly Lady in the Wife of Bath’s Tale.” Session: “Women in Romance.” 17th International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, 12-15 July 2010.
“Ful nobelelike upon a stede or Overþwert upon an asse: Portrayal of Travel and Traveling in the Middle English ‘Matter of England’ Verse Romances.” Early Middle English Society’s Session: “Travel and Exploration in Early Middle English Texts” at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. University of Western Michigan, 13-16 May 2010.
“With Rhyme and Reason: Adaptation, Modification and Development of Verse Structure in Medieval Translations of French Romances into English.” Conference: “Ryght as it is ymad in Fraunce”: Franco-English Poetic Translation(s), 1350-1550. St Hilda’s College, Oxford University, 20 March 2010.
“Speaking of Reading and Reading the Evidence: Allusions to Literacy in the Oral Tradition of the Middle English Verse Romances.” Conference: Evidence of Reading, Reading the Evidence. University of London, 21-23 July 2008.
“In Romance as We Read and as We Hear in Geste: Written Orality in the Medieval ‘Short Story’: the Verse Romances of the 13th and 14th Centuries.” Conference: Orality in Short Fiction. Université d’Angers, 25-26 November 2005.
“Transformation Through Translation: Re-Examining the Horn Legend’s Transformation through Translation.” Session: “From French to English?: The Romance Connection.” 5th International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, 13 July 1998.
“Bitwix Hem Tvai of Blod and Bon, Trewer Love Nas Neuer Non; Images of Male Love and Fidelity in the Middle English Amis and Amiloun.” 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. University of Western Michigan, 8 May 1998.
“Translations and Speculations: Aemutlatio in Medieval Translations of Verse Romance.” Postgraduate Seminar of Glasgow University’s English Language Department. University of Glasgow, 6 November 1997.

Conférences nationales

“The Loathly Lady, La Dame Hideuse: La métamorphose d’une métamorphose.” Journée d’Etudes sur la métamorphose et ses métamorphoses dans la littérature européennes: Histoire d’un décentrement ? Université J.-F. Champollion, Albi, 11-12 December 2008.
“There and Back Again: Quests and Ramblings in Medieval Verse Romances.” 44ème Congrès de la Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur. Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 14-16 May 2004.
“Evolution and Devolution: An Historical Examination of the Development of Scottish English.” First Workshop of the PAC (Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporaine) Project. Université de Toulouse II – Le Mirail, 23-24 April 2004.
“There’s Something Amis(s) with your New Ami: Translation and Adaptation in the Middle English Version of Amis and Amiloun.” Invited speaker to the 19th Annual Congress of the Centre d’Etudes Médiévales Anglaises. Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, 23 March 2002.

Enseignements

Domaines d enseignement

Littérature anglaise médievale; philologie et linguistique diachronique; littérature moderne en anglais; poésie et poétiques en anglais; phonétique phonologie; civilisation britannique; civilisation américaine.

Responsabilités pédagogiques

Supervision et repsonsabilités pédagogiques :

2015: Co-supervision de la dissertation de master for Masters Dissertation de Mégane Barreiros: “Filles d’Aliénor d’Aquitaine” à l'Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (mention bien).

Responsable de l'UE 'Anthologie Poétique' (16L1ANG26FOS)
Responsable de l'UE 'Littérature anglaise - L2' (162LANG33FOP) -- e.g., Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird; J.D. Salinger: The Cather in the Rye; Pat Conroy: The Lords of Discipline, The Great Santini; Ian Banks The Wasp Factory; etc.
Responsable de l'UE 'Civilisation Américaine: origins to 1812' (16L2ANG34FOP)
Responsable de l'UE 'Civilisation Américaine: 1812-1877' (16L2ANG44FOP)
Responsable de l'UE 'Philologie, linguistique et histoire de la langue anglaise: Chaucer to Today' (16L3ANG51FOP)
Responsable de l'UE 'Philologie, linguistique et histoire de la langue anglaise: Old English to Chaucer' ()
Responsable de l'UE 'Littérature anglaise - L3' (16L3ANG63FOP) -- e.g., Shakespeare (Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, etc.); Vladimir Nabakov Lolita; Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales; The Medieval Verse Romances: Breton Lays; Survey of Medieval Literature: Chaucer to Milton; etc.
Responsable de l'UE 'Poésie et/ou littérature en vers' (16L3ANG56FOS) -- e.g., Shakespeare (As You Like It, King Lear, Shakespeare's Sonnets)
Responsable de l'UE 'Civilisations Britannique: Normans to Stuarts' (16L3ANG55FOP)

Administration

Mandats

Responsabilités Administratives à l'Institut National Universitaire J.-F. Champollion/Administrative Responsibilities at Champollion National University Institute:

2022-présent, et 2013-2014 : Responsable de la filière d'anglais du département d'Arts, Lettres et Langues (Head of English Section of Department of Arts, Languages and Literature).
2022-présent : référent de la filière d’anglais vers l’AED du Rectorat de l’Académie de Toulouse.
2006-2011: Responsable du département d'Arts, Lettres et Langues (Head of Department of Arts, Languages and Literature).
- Membre du Bureau de Direction (Member of the Interdepartmental Administrative Council).
2005-2011: Membre élu du Conseil Scientifique et Pédagogique (Elected Member to the CSP, the university’s academic planning committee for implementation, evaluation and improvement of academic curricula).

Responsabilités administratives

Relations Internationales de l'INU Champollion (International Relations of Champollion University):

2016-Présent: Responsable des échanges ERASMUS et internationales pour la filière d'Anglais du département (ERASMUS and Foreign Exchange Coordinator for exchanges with the English section of the Department).
2012-2016: Responsable des échanges ERASMUS et internationales de l'Europe du Nord et de l'Amérique du Nord (ERASMUS and Foreign Exchange Coordinator for northern Europe and North America).
2009-2013: Correspondant LVE du CUFR au PRES de Toulouse (Regional Foreign Language Coordinator representing Champollion at the predecessor of the Université Féderale de Toulouse-Midi Pyrénées (UFTMP)).
2006-2012: Responsable des échanges ERASMUS au sein du département d'Arts, langues et littératures (ERASMUS Foreign Exchange Coordinator for the Department of Languages and Literature).