My dissertation research is broadly focused on questions of disembodiment in medieval poetry. In that project, I\u00a0engage a variety of voices from continental philosophy to bring the medieval world into lively conversations with contemporary questions about human perception, literary interpretation, and the production of meaning.<\/p>\n
I also work with a group of colleagues from Vanderbilt and elsewhere on reconstructing Old French pronunciation. Led by Dr. Lynn Ramey, our goal is to create and circulate a series of approachable pedagogical resources for the teaching and learning of\u00a0Old French pronunciation.<\/p>\n
In my work within Media Studies, I am invested in understanding how media ecologists engage existing discourses in\u00a0philosophy of mind and semiotics in order to\u00a0pose questions about the mediated character of human sense experience and cognition.<\/p>\n
Finally, I work to incorporate my experience as a stage actor and director into my academic teaching and research.\u00a0In the fall of 2017, I translated a portion of\u00a0Le fils du tapissier: \u00e9pisode de la vie de<\/em> Moli\u00e8re\u00a0<\/em>by Haitian playwright Charles Moravia, a translation that I subsequently directed as a staged production at a professional theater in Nashville, Tennessee. I used this original translation as the basis of a teaching unit in an introductory language course I taught at Vanderbilt, a process that I hope to expand during the coming years into an interactive educational performance piece\u00a0designed for high school and college students of French language and Francophone cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My dissertation research is broadly focused on questions of disembodiment in medieval poetry. In that project, I\u00a0engage a variety of voices from continental philosophy to bring the medieval world into lively conversations with contemporary questions about human perception, literary interpretation, and the production of meaning. I also work with a group of colleagues from Vanderbilt…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6205,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/jacobabell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/jacobabell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/jacobabell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/jacobabell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/jacobabell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/jacobabell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/jacobabell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/jacobabell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/jacobabell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}