Desjardins, Robert
Robert Desjardins
rob.desjardins@ualberta.ca
2-28 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-3270
Research Interests
- Crusades and crusading in the late medieval period
- Court culture and chivalry in Valois Burgundy (15C)
- Ideology and rhetoric in Burgundian crusading literature
Education
- BA Hons. (1991) – Department of English, University of Alberta
- MJ (1994) – School of Journalism, Carleton University
- MA (2003) – Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta
- PhD (in progress) – Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta
Current/Recent Positions
- Editorial Assistant, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions monograph series (Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands; Editor-in-chief Prof. Andrew Gow)
- Graduate Visiting Student, Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Trinity Term 2007)
- Editoral Board Member, LATCH: A Journal for the Literary Artifact in Theory, Culture or History
Supervisor
Current/Recent Projects
- Dissertation project: Writing and imagining the crusade in fifteenth-century Burgundy: The case of Jean de Wavrin's Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre
- (With Prof. Andrew Gow and Pat Dutchak): A study, English translation, and diplomatic edition of Johannes Tinctor’s Traittié contre la vauderie, a fifteenth-century Burgundian treatise against witchcraft
- A presentation to the annual convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association concerning the crusade advocate and statesman Philippe de Mézières (Chicago, 11 Nov 2006)
Awards
- Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Fellowship (2008-09)
- SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (2005-2008)
- Province of Alberta Graduate Fellowship (2004-2005)
- Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship (Honorary)
Courses Taught
- Hist 297 (History of Christianity): Winter 2008
- Hist 403 (Crusades and Crusading Ideology): Winter 2009