CURRICULUM VITAE

DR. ANDREW COWELL

Depts. of French and Italian and Linguistics

Campus Box 238

University of Colorado

Boulder, CO 80309-0238

Phone: 303-492-8270

E-mail: James.Cowell@Colorado.edu

FAX: 303-492-8338

TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

Director, Center for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the West (CSILW), University of Colorado, 2004-

Chair, Department of French and Italian, University of Colorado, 2004-07

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of French and Italian, University of Colorado at Boulder, Fall 2002-

Associate Chair, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of French and Italian, University of Colorado at Boulder, Fall, 1998-Spring, 2002

Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian, University of Colorado at Boulder, Fall 1995 - 2002

EDUCATION

Ph.D., French, University of California at Berkeley, Dec. 1993. (Major field: Middle Ages; Minor field: Linguistics)

M.A., French, University of California at Berkeley, 1990.

B.A., Romance Languages (French), Harvard University, 1986.

REFEREED BOOKS

At Play in the Tavern: Signs, Coins and Bodies in Medieval France. University of Michigan Press, 1999 (270 pp).

Hinono’einoo3itoono / Arapaho Historical Traditions. Told by Paul Moss. Edited and translated by Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss, Sr. University of Manitoba Press, 2005 (531pp).

The Medieval Warrior Aristocracy: Gifts, Violence, Performance and the Sacred. D.S. Brewer, Gallica Series, 2007 (198 pp).

The Arapaho Language. In Press, University Press of Colorado (c. 544 pages, pending index).

Healing the West. Patricia Limerick, Andrew Cowell and Sharon Collinge, eds. In Press, University of Arizona Press. (Word manuscript is 347 pp.)

REFEREED ARTICLES

“Diderot's Tahiti and Enlightenment Sexual Economics.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 265 (1995):349-64.

“Feminine Semiotics and Masculine Desires: Courtois d'Arras and the Proper Male Reader in the Middle Ages.” Symposium, 50,1 (Spring 1996):16-27.

“The Fall of the Oral Economy: Writing Economics on the Dead Body.” Exemplaria, 8,1 (Spring 1996): 145-67.

“Deadly Letters: ‘Deus amanz’, the 'Prologue' to Marie's Lais and the Dangerous Nature of the Gloss.” Romanic Review, 88,3 (May 1997): 337-56/

“The Dye of Desire: The Colors of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages.” Exemplaria, 11,1 (Spring 1999):115-40.

“The Apocalypse of Paradise and the Salvation of the West: Nightmare Visions of the Future in the Pacific Eden.” Cultural Studies, 13(1999):138-160.

“Gautier d’Aupais, Courtly Love, and the Dangers of the Tavern.” Romance Notes 41,3 (2001): 273-80.

“The Poetics of Advertising: A Medieval Response to Modern Theory.” Poetics Today, 22,4 (2001):791-823.

“A Reconstructed Conjunct Order Participle in Arapaho.” With Alonzo Moss. International Journal of American Linguistics 68 (2002): 341-65.

“The Poetics of Arapaho Storytelling: Voice, Print, Salvage and Performance.” Oral Tradition 17( 2002): 18-52.

“Bilingual Curriculum among the Northern Arapaho: Oral Tradition, Literacy, and Performance.” American Indian Quarterly 26( 2002): 24-43.

“A Note of Clarification on the Arapaho TA Verb.” Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics 27 (2002): 17.

“Arapaho Place Names in Colorado: Form, Function, Language and Culture.” With Alonzo Moss. Anthropological Linguistics 45 (2003): 349-89.

“Arapaho Placenames in Colorado: Indigenous Mapping, White Remaking.” Names 52 (2004): 21-41.

“Report on the Status of Gros Ventre/Atsina.” With Alan Taylor. Algonquian and Iroquian Linguistics 29 (2004):41.

“Swords, Clubs, and Relics: Performance, Identity and the Sacred.” Yale French Studies, 110 (2006):7-18.

“Arapaho Imperatives: Indirectness, Politeness and Communal “Face”“. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 17 (2007):44-60.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED VOLUMES AND REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

“The Pleasures and Pains of the Gift” in The Question of the Gift, Mark Osteen, ed.,Routledge, 2002: 280-97.

“The Arapaho Conjunct Order: Forms and Functions.” With Alonzo Moss. Proceedings of 33rd Algonquian Conference, Berkeley, CA, 2002: 162-80.

“The Linguistic Structure of Arapaho Personal Names.” With Alonzo Moss. Proceedings of 35^th Algonquian Conference, London, Ontario, 2004: 61-74.

“Three Stories.” With Alonzo Moss. A translation with critical introduction of three traditional Arapaho oral narratives, in Algonquian Spirit, Briann Swann, ed. University of Nebraska Press, 2005: 472-94.

“Arapaho Plant Names.” Proceedings of 36^th Algonquian Conference, Madison, WI, 2005: 1-36.

“Indigenous Language Use in Native American Education: Opening Spaces for Indigenous Ethnographies of Communication” in Language of the Land: Policy, Politics, Identity. Katherine Schuster and David Witkowsky, eds. Information Age Publishing, 2007: 149-64.

“Heroic Violence, Individual Identity, and Community Reflection.” Forthcoming 2008 at D.J. Brill, in Writing Medieval History, Yelena Mazour-Matusevich, ed. (Word manuscript is 30 pp).

“Introduction”, Andrew Cowell, Sharon Collinge and Patricia Limerick, in Healing the West, Limerick, Cowell and Collinge, eds. Forthcoming, 2008, University of Arizona Press. (Pp. 10-23 in the Word manuscript.)

“Indigenous Languages of the West: A Prognosis for the Future” in Healing the West. Limerick, Cowell and Collinge, eds. Forthcoming 2008, University of Arizona Press. (Pp. 62-84 in Word manuscript.)

OTHER (NON-REFEREED) RESEARCH PRODUCTS

“Telling Stories: Arapaho Narrative Traditions”

46-minute video on Arapaho narrative traditions. Narratives were taped, transcribed and translated specifically for the video (which has English subtitles for the Arapaho narratives). Video also includes interviews with Arapaho storytellers and scholarly commentary by myself. It is accompanied by a 44-page printed version of the transcriptions and translations, with additional commentary and analysis, and interlinear translation and linguistic analysis. Funded by Wyoming Council for the Humanities. Completed 2001. Distributed through Wyoming Council for the Humanities and CSILW website.

Website: www.colorado.edu/csilw/newarapproj2.htm

Produced in conjunction with students in two Linguistics classes at CU. Site includes original interviews, original recordings of music and other performances, original recordings of storytelling sessions, and original language research, along with transcriptions and translations of much of the material. Also includes analyses and comments by students, based on original field research, both on CU campus and at Wind River Reservation, WY. Funded by Colorado Endowment for the Humanities. Completed 2005

Modern Arapaho Narratives/ Hinono’einoo3itoono

270-page bilingual collection of 29 reservation-era Arapaho stories not previously published or documented. Includes 3 CD-ROM’s with all the of the Arapaho-language versions of the stories. Produced with a grant from Wyoming Council for the Humanities, as a spiral-bound, plastic-cover book, distributed on the Wind River Reservation, and available from Wyoming Council for the Humanities. Completed 2006. Also distributed through CSILW website.

The Arapaho in Colorado

A set of CD-ROMs covering names, uses and beliefs about plants, birds, animals, celestial phenomena and the weather, plus documentation of place names, and collections of stories related to the above phenomena and to Arapaho history in Colorado. In Arapaho and English, with audio, video, photo and text documentation. Funded through National Park Service. Completed, 2006. Distributed through CSILW website.

A series of bilingual booklets, funded by the Endangered Language Fund, containing retranscriptions and retranslations of manuscript material at the National Anthropological Archives. Printed and distributed on the Wind River Reservation. Contains around 1200-1500 lines of text. Copies deposited at ELF. Includes:

Six Arapaho Mythological Narratives

Six Nih’oo3oo (trickster) Stories

The Story of Tangled Hair and Found-in-the-Grass

Hinono’einoowooyeitiitono / Arapaho Prayers

The Life of Mrs. White Bear, Southern Arapaho

The Life of Medicine Grass, Arapaho

“Gros Ventre Grammar” (55 pages)

Written for Gros Ventre Tribe, 2004. Distributed through CSILW website.

BOOK REVIEWS

The Medieval Theater of Cruelty, by Jody Enders. Reviewed for The Comparatist 26 (2002):175-6.

Christian, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature, by Lynne Ramey. Reviewed for Quidditas. 26(2001):117-118.

Courtly Contradictions: The Origins of the Literary Object in the Twelfth Century, by Sarah Kay. Reviewed for French Forum 28(2003):133-35.

Papers of the 34^th Algonquian Conference, H.C. Wolfart, ed. Reviewed for Anthropological Linguistics 46 (2004): 347-50.

MANUSCRIPTS REVIEWED

For American Indian Quarterly, 2003

For Names, 2004, 2006, 2007

For Proceedings of 36^th Algonquian Conference, 2005

For GeoForum, 2006

For Christianity and Literature, 2007

For Exemplaria, 2007

GRANT APPLICATIONS REVIEWED

Application (1) for NSF/DEL program, 2006.

Applications (29) for Endangered Language Fund, Native Voices Program, 2007

EXTERNAL GRANTS OBTAINED

Wyoming Council for the Humanities Special Projects Grant, 2000, for production of a videotape on Arapaho storytelling (project conceived, written and executed by me, grant awarded and administered through Northern Arapaho Tribe) ($3500).

American Philosophical Society research grant for work with Arapaho, 2000 ($1320)

Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, 2003, to upgrade Arapaho website as a K-12 education tool ($5000).

Endangered Language Fund, for work on rescuing early Arapaho texts in manuscript form from archives, for publication, 2003 ($2000).

National Park Service, Historic Preservation Trust Fund, 2004, for research and production of CD-ROM’s documenting Arapaho culture, language, history in RMNP, Colorado (grant written by me in cooperation with Northern Arapaho Tribe as joint project, with funds awarded to and administered by the Tribe, research and CD-ROM’s produced at CU ($22,000).

Wyoming Council for the Humanities, Language Preservation Grant, 2005, production of an anthology of oral narratives (in cooperation with Northern Arapaho Tribe)($4600).

LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE

Speak (in order of ability): English, French, Hawaiian, Arapaho, Italian, Spanish, Catalan

Reading Knowledge (some speaking ability in some cases): German, Portuguese, Occitan, Russian, Latin, Gros Ventre/Atsina, Samoan; also medieval German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Icelandic/Old Norse

Languages Studied: Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Sierra Miwok, Tahitian

TEACHING: LIST OF ALL COURSES TAUGHT

Linguistics 3220 “Native American Languages in their Cultural Context”

Linguistics 4100 “Arapaho: A Native American Language in its Cultural Context”

Ling/Anthro 4800 “Language and Culture”

Linguistics 5200 “Topics in Native American Languages”

Linguistics 7800 “Language and Performance”

French 1200 “Medieval Epic and Romance”

French 3110 “Survey of French Literature - Middle Ages to Revolution”

French 3200 “Introduction to Literary Theory”

French 4110 “The French Comic Tradition prior to the Revolution”

French 4110 “Multi-media Literary Analysis”

Fr 4130/Hum 4130 “The Medieval Lyric Tradition”

Italian 4130 “Lyric Lives: Abelard, Dante and Petrarch”

French 4300 “Medieval Arthurian Literature”

French 4350 “From the Englightenment to Romanticism”

French 5200,5080 “Introduction to Old French Language and Literature”

ComL 5350/Fr 5250 “Theory and Practice of the Voice”

Comp Lit 5660 “Literature and Economics”

Comp Lit 5660 “Orality, Literacy and Post-Modernity”

French 5200 “The Medieval Epic”

French 5200 “The Medieval Comico-Realist Tradition”

For CU ATLAS (Alliance for Technology, Learning and Socity) Institute, TAM (Technology, Arts and Media) Program:

“Introductory Projects Course” (Students constructed a website documenting Arapaho language and culture)

“Theory and Practice Course” (Students used multi-media digital technology as a mode of experiencing and interpreting literary texts)

“Capstone Projects Course” (Students constructed a newer, larger version of the website documenting Arapaho language and culture)

PHD DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED

Hartwell Francis, LING “Transitivity in Arapaho: A Construction-Grammar Approach”

(co-directed with Laura Michaelis). Completed 5/06. Student is

currently Visiting Assistant Professor, Western Carolina Univ.

Wahid Omar, FRIT “Narrative Constructions of Community.” Ongoing.