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French literature and multicultural literature
Books on French literature
Cummins, Patricia W., Patrick W. Conner, and Charles W. Connell, eds. Literary and Historical Perspectives of the Middle Ages. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia U., 1982.
A Critical Edition of Le Regime tresutile et tresproufitable pour conserver et garder la santé du corps humain. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (UNC Series in Romance Languages and Literatures No. 177), 1976.
Research and teaching interests
Early in her career, Dr. Cummins focused much of her research on French medieval literature. Her first book was a critical edition of a medical treatise that consisted of a long poem with medical advice with commentaries on its verses. Most of her articles on the Middle Ages relate to poetry and music before 1300, and she helped to define genres not only by their content and their versification, but also by their musical characteristics. As a medievalist Dr.Cummins served as an officer within the International Courtly Literature Society, and during her presidency of the Southeastern Medieval Association, she published the first volume of Literary and Historical Perspectives of the Middle Ages (1982) with Charles Connell and Patrick Conner.
Dr. Cummins has taught French literature over her entire career. She routinely offers both the French literature survey as well as more specialized courses in French literature. In Fall 2006 she taught masterpieces of French poetry across the centuries.
In the late 1990s she began to teach courses in multicultural literature, which focused on continents other than Europe and North America. This included literature of Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
Since her Summer 2002 Fulbright experience in Egypt, she has taught courses on Egypt and a course on language and identity in the Middle East.
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