- Le Don du Livre (2019–2021) — Co-led a three-year literacy initiative with David Desplaces: secured 3,000 French free books from AMOPA via the French Navy, coordinated outreach to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø-area schools and universities placements, and organized campus distribution events.
- Director, French Business Program @CofC (2015–2021) — Designed courses and a minor, provided academic and administrative leadership.
- Summer Internship Program in Paris (2017–2020) — Designed a study-abroad internship track for CofC students, developed employer partnerships, and placed student cohorts in Paris.
Juliette Bourdier, Ph.D.
Associate Professor | Affiliate Faculty - Environmental and Sustainability Studies (ENSS) Program
Medieval anthropologist, Dr. Bourdier specializes in medieval European literature, heritage, and culture with a particular interest in the perception and reception of Hell by emphasizing the fundamental connection between different philosophical, scientific, and socio-cultural contexts. Besides investigating testimonies of voyages in Hell, her current research addresses the question of Parisian Book of Hours as a unique opportunity to contribute to our understanding of the 15th-century Parisian society. Her scholarship has appeared in numerous academic journals and volumes in the United-States and in Europe. Dr. Bourdier is a Researcher Collaborator at the National Center for Scientific Research CNRS, High Studies Center for Medieval Civilization CESCM, University of Poitiers and ACTE, Fictions and Interactions, University Sorbonne Paris-1.
Honors and Awards
- Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques (Knight in the Order of the Academic Palms) — one of France’s oldest academic honors, conferred by the French government.
- ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø ExCEL Award for Outstanding Faculty — recognizing leadership in fostering a campus culture of diversity, inclusion, and excellence.
- Sassoon Fellowship, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford — awarded in recognition of contributions to medieval manuscript research.
Courses Taught
Dr. Bourdier has taught courses in French Medieval and Renaissance Studies, French Business, Literature, Culture, Sustainability, and Language at all levels.
Publications Since at CofC
"The Afterworld, Destination of the Sublimated Dreamlike Journey", " L’au-delà, destination du voyage onirique sublimé", Acta Iassyensia Comparationis, 34 (2/2025), Dream In Literature. Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iaşi, România, 2025: 1-12.
“When the Medieval Book Comes Alive Around the Matere: Object and Subject in Turn”, Bibliophila, Book Matters, Interfaces, n°52, Université de Bourgogne, 2024: 51-75.
“Atelier médiéval, entre fantasmagorie et sacralité”, l’atelier comme œuvre, Ligeia, n°205, CNL, Paris, 2023: 90-107.
“Un manuscrit parisien et ses énigmes”, livre d’heures des Le Tellier, 1460”, PECIA, n°24, Brepols, 2022: 289-333.
“Raoul et son Ethos discours et image d’auteur dans la création littéraire médiévale”, L’auteur dans son œuvre – entre présence et effacement, Harmattan, Paris, 2021 280-296.
“Troisième genre infernal, entre utopie terrestre et dystopie infernale”, Redistribution du Genre, University of Rennes, 2020: 48-66.
“Miracle marial, pilier du livre d’heures de Courtanvaux c.1460”, Les Miracles de Notre-Dame, du Moyen Âge à nos jours, Éditeur Jacques André, Lyon, 2020: 78-93.
“Témoignage par l’exemplum : la construction médiévale d’une sociopoétique infernale.” Revue de Sociopoétique, Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne, Vol Varia 4, 2019.
“Du temps absolu à l’espace universel, le paradigme infernal médiéval, Tondale et Owen,” Pratiques et Conceptions de l’espace au Moyen Âge, Journal Études Médiévales Anglaises, N°94, Dec 2019: 199-225.
“Du mot à l’image, les Paines denfer du Grand Kalendrier et Composts des Bergiers”, Revue Textimage, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Vol. 16, (2018): 61-88.
“Travels through The Dark Realms of Medieval Clerical Fantasies: Sex & Erotica in the Infernal Testimony”, Comitatus, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 48, (Sept. 2017): 20-47.
“La matière d’Enfer, senefiance syncrétique et polyphonie littéraire”, Matières à débat, la notion dematière littéraire dans la littérature médiévale, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, (Spring 2017): 255-273.
“L’odyssée de Brandain dans l’enfer fictionnel”, French Literature Series, XLI Odysseys, Ed. Jeanne Garane, Editions Brill, (Dec. 2016): 5-20.
“Chaîne de traduction, s’approprier le Tractatus pour translater l’Espurgatoire”, l’évolution de la langue et le traitement des intraduisibles au sein de la recherche, Editions des Archives contemporaines, Sept. 2016: 45-53.
“le Jeu et le Mot : sémiotique des passages chez Raoul de Houdenc”, In Atelier de Traduction Numéro 23/2015, Editura Universităţii din Suceava, 2015: 177-190.
“Peine et Douleurs, la Définition Sotériologique de l’Au-delà ”, TRANS-n°17, Paris : Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2014: 171-182.