Distinguished Professor Emeritus
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Professor Delbert Russell's research interests include French-Canadian literature, medieval French language and literature, and bibliography. His most recent publication is a critical edition of the medieval French rhymed life of St. Francis of Assisi, La Vye de seynt Fraunceys (London, 2002). A research grant from SSHRC is supporting current work on an electronic edition of a medieval collection of Old French verse saints lives, the unique 14th-century Campsey manuscript.
Prof.
Russell
is
also
collaborating
with
Laurie
Postlewate
(Barnard
College)
on
an
English
translation
of
selected
Anglo-Norman
saints
lives,
for
the
French
of
England
in
Translation
series
published
by
the
University
of
Arizona
press.
Earlier
work
includes
studies
of
the
contemporary
Québec
writer, Anne
Hébert (1983), Anne
Hébert:
an
annotated
bibliography (1986),
as
well
as
critical
editions
of
medieval
texts, La
Vie
de
saint
Laurent (1976),Légendier
apostolique
anglo-normand (1989), La
Vie
seint
Richard,
evesque
de
Cycestre (1995).