Rate My Professor Tamara Caudill

Tamara Caudill is Associate Professor of French at Jacksonville University, where she teaches French language and literature courses and contributes to faculty governance as a recent Faculty Chair. She earned her PhD from Tulane University, defending her dissertation titled 'Issi avint cum dit vus ai: The Old French Narrative Lay in Context' during the 2016-2017 academic year. She is an alumna of the University of Kentucky's Department of Modern and Classical Languages. At Jacksonville University, Caudill has been recognized for her excellence in teaching and service, receiving the 2021 Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, the 2022 Faculty Woman of the Year award, and the 2022-2023 Faculty Excellence Award in University Service. She has also served on various faculty leadership committees, including as Chair of the Faculty Leadership Committee.

Caudill's scholarly work centers on medieval French literature, Old French, orality-literacy studies, and gender dynamics in medieval song and narrative. Her publications include 'Half the man I used to be: Raimon de las Salas and the Trouble with the Trobairitz' in Tenso 32 (2017), 'OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d'espions (2006)' in Allons au cinéma: Promoting French through Films, Vol. 2 (2016), and a review of 'Two Companions to Marie de France' in Le Cygne: The Journal of the International Marie de France Society 2 (Fall 2015). She contributed to Gender and Voice in Medieval French Literature and Song (2022), examining gendered voices in troubadour lyric genres. As a performance scholar, she presented 'An Affair to Remember: A Performance of Equitan in Old French' at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in 2011. Caudill is Past President of the International Marie de France Society and co-editor of its journal Le Cygne, dedicated exclusively to the medieval author Marie de France. Her conference presentations include workshops on reading aloud in Old French and Middle French at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. She coordinates World Languages at Jacksonville University and has organized events such as National French Week and first-year seminars for student engagement.