Dolores Buttry
French, German, and Scandinavian Literature
Office: 223A Biddle Hall
email: djb59@pitt.edu
tel.: (814) 269-7176
Education
Ph.D. (French), University of Pittsburgh, 1997
Thesis: Maître Wace: Romancier malgré lui
Ph.D. (Comparative Literature with German/Scandinavian major), University of Illinois, 1978
Thesis: Knut Hamsun: A Scandinavian Rousseau
M.A. (French), Illinois State University, 1972
M.A. (German), Middlebury College and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität,
Mainz, Germany, 1969
B.A. (French, German minor), Illinois State University, 1967
Honors and Scholarships
NEH Summer Institute, “German and European Studies in the U.S.:
Changing World, Shifting Narratives,” with Prof. Barton Byg,
Univ. of Massachusetts, summer, 2005
NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on “Nationalism,” with
Prof. Edward Tiryakian, Duke University, summer, 1996
Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1991-92
Invitation from the Norwegian foreign ministry to lecture on Hamsun
at “Hamsun-Dagene” in Hamarøy, Norway, August, 1990
NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on “Generic Fascism,” with
Prof. H. A. Turner, Yale University, summer, 1987
Travel grant from the Norwegian Information Service, summer, 1981,
Oslo, Norway
American Philosophical Society grant, summer, 1981, Oslo, Norway
Mellon Faculty Fellowship, Harvard University, 1980-81
University of Illinois Fellowship, Oslo, Norway, 1976-77
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Stipendium (Marshall
Dankstipendium), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 1968-69
Fulbright Research Grant, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France,
1967-68
Courses Taught at University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown:
The Faust Legend in European Literature, Film, and Music
Viking Culture and the Icelandic Saga
Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature
German Composition and Conversation
Elementary French I and II
Elementary German I and II
Intermediate German I and II
Student Activities: Deutscher Stammtisch, German conversation table
Foreign Film Series, Fall Semester
Selected Publications – Articles
“Maistre Wace and the Exotic Other,” in Maistre Wace: A Celebration.
Proceedings of the International Colloquium held in Jersey,
10-12 September, 2004. Ed. Glyn S. Burgess and Judith Weiss.
Société Jersiaise, 2006, pp. 107-120
“Authority Refracted: Personal Principle and Translation in Wace’s Roman de Brut,” in
The Politics of Translation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Univ.
of Ottowa Press, 2001, pp. 85-107.
“Knut Hamsun: en ruteløs komet?” Studia Scandinavica, no. 15, spring, 1997,
23-33.
“Mellomakt: Hamsuns ‘På Bankene’ mellom Sult og Mysterier,” Norsk litterær
Årbok, 1996, 29-38.
“Contempt or Empathy? Master Wace’s Depiction of a Peasant Revolt,”
Romance Notes 37.1, 1996, 31-38
“L’Homme du Midi et l’homme du Nord: Charles Maurras and Knut Hamsun, »
South Atlantic Review, May, 1993, 41-58
“An Irish Faust: James Clarence Mangan, ‘The Man in the Cloak,’” The
Journal of Irish Literature, January, 1989, 50-55
“Earth Mother or Femme Fatale? Femininity as Envisioned by Jean-Jacques
Rousseau and Knut Hamsun,” Neophilologus 72, 1988, 484-498.
“A Thirst for Intimacy: Knut Hamsun’s Pyromania,” Scandinavica 26.2, Nov., 1987,
129-139.
“Deux exemples d’autarcie: Clarens et Sellanraa,” Mosaic, spring,
1986, 19.2: 21-30
“Knut Hamsun und die Schweiz,” Schweizer Monatshefte, Februar, 1983, 141-147
“Perceptions of the Physical World: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Knut Hamsun,
and Nature,” Edda VI, 1981, 349-357
“Music and the Musician in the Works of Knut Hamsun,” Scandinavian
Studies, spring, 1981, 171-182.
Selected Papers Delivered at Conferences in the U. S. and Abroad
“Master Wace and Revolt,” French I section, SAMLA, Louisville, KY,
November, 2008
“Sein and Wollen: Drama as Inspiration in Hamsun’s First and Last Works,”
delivered at the International Association for Scandinavian Studies,
Gdansk, Poland, August, 2008
“Passing the Horizon of Expectations: Master Wace and his Courtly
Audience,” medieval literature section (International Courtly
Literature Society), South Atlantic Modern Language
Association, Atlanta, November, 2007
“Master Wace and the Suffering Innocents,” medieval literature section,
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Charlotte,
N. C., Nov. 10-12, 2006
“’Meine Gedanken zerreißen die Schranken’: Prison Survival Strategies
in Zweig’s Schachnovelle and in Albrecht Haushofer’s
Moabiter Sonette,” section on Modern German Literature
(at the Goethe Institut), SAMLA, Atlanta, Nov., 2005
“Lack and Longing: The Role of Hunger in Artistic Activity and Political
Power as Illustrated in Works by Kafka, Hamsun, and Yeats,”
section on Comparative Literature, SAMLA, Atlanta, Nov., 2001
“Noble or Ignoble? Stalking the Savage in the Works of Knut Hamsun,”
section on Scandinavian literature, SAMLA, Birmingham, AL,
Nov., 2000
“Flucht vor der Kunst, Flucht in die Kunst: Hamsun’s Nagel, Thomas
Mann’s Friedemann, and Wagner,” section on Comparative
Literature, SAMLA, Atlanta, November, 1997
“Flying the Unfriendly Skies: The Use of Incendiary Birds in Medieval
(Literary) Warfare,” Sewanee Medieval Conference, Sewanee, TN,
March, 1996
“Forging/Fraying the French Connection: Scandinavian Kingship and
Clash of Cultures in Wace’s Roman de Rou,” at the
International Courtly Literature Society, Queen’s University,
Belfast, Northern Ireland, July 26-Aug. 1, 1995
Portrayal of Women in Wace’s Roman de Rou, Kalamazoo
Medieval Conference, May, 1995
May, 1994
“Strange Bedfellows of the Grande Guerre: André Gide and the French
Right,” Kentucky For. Lang. Conf., Lexington, KY, April, 1992
“Vive le Roi and Pass the Ammunition! Charles Maurras’ War on the
Modern World,” Pennsylvania For. Lang. Conf., Duquesne Univ.,
Pittsburgh, September, 1990