Distinguished Professor, Director of The Public Speaking Initiative
https://www.frit.ucsb.edu/people/jody-enders
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<li>University of Pennsylvania, 1980-86<br>
Ph.D. in Romance Languages, 1986</li>
<li>University of Virginia, 1973-80<br>
M.A. in French Literature, 1979<br>
B.A. in French, Russian summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1977</li>
<li>Université de Paris III, Institut de Langues et Civilisations Orientales, 1975-76</li>
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<h3 tabindex="0">Bio</h3>
<p><b>Academic Distinctions and Awards</b></p>
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<li>Barnard Hewitt Award, 2003, for outstanding research in Theater History and Cognate Studies, from the American Society of Theatre Research for <i>Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends</i></li>
<li>Honorable Mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Book in Drama or Theatre</li>
<li>Finalist for George Freedley Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association</li>
<li>John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1999 for <i>Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends</i></li>
<li>Inaugural Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, 1993, French and Francophone Studies, awarded by the Modern Language Association, to <i>Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama</i></li>
<li>Official Visitor to the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. Spring, 1997</li>
<li>Mary Isabel Sibley Award from the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, 1986-87</li>
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<p><b>Research Interests</b></p>
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<li>Medieval theater and performance; medieval French literature</li>
<li>Theater history; history of comedy</li>
<li>History of rhetoric</li>
<li>Performance theory</li>
<li>Interrelations of law and literature</li>
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