Fellow and Tutor, and University Lecturer (CUF) in Medieval French,
Member of the MARGOT Research Group.
Teaching and research interests include Medieval French language and literature, particularly fifteenth-century defence of women literature, responses to the Roman de la rose, transitions from manuscript to print, and text and image; medieval theories of imagination; critical theory; film studies.
Teaching
Courses in French language and medieval literature, critical theory, and film studies, at both undergraduate and graduate level.
Recent courses taught
Courses in French language and medieval literature, critical theory,
and film studies, at both undergraduate and graduate level.
Undergraduate
French Prelims
Paper II: Synthesis
Paper IV: La Chastelaine de Vergi
Paper XI: Introduction to French Film Studies
French FHS
Paper II: Early translation
Paper III: Non-literary translation
Paper VI: Medieval period paper
Paper IX: Early texts
English FHS
Paper B18: Old French Language 1150–1250
Paper B19: Medieval French Literature 1100–1300
Paper B20: Medieval French Literature 1300–1500
Graduate taught courses
Co-convenor of the Medieval French Research seminar
MSt in Modern Languages: Methods of Criticism and Theory of Literature
Graduate student supervisions
PhD students supervised
Olivia Robinson (ongoing) – cross-disciplinary project investigating the wider implications of the querelle du ‘Roman de la rose’ in Middle English, particularly Chaucer.
Research
Research interests straddle the late medieval and early modern periods, from the mid-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth centuries, examining
the transition from manuscript to print, especially with regard to
text-image relationships; literary defences of women (la querelle des femmes); reception of Le Roman de la rose; poet-patron relations; and theories of imagination.
I have three main projects at present, and a number of collaborative ventures.
Understanding Imagination in Late Medieval French Literature (1340-1540)
This monograph harnesses medieval literary, theological and psychological understandings of imagination's status as a key to interpreting a corpus of later medieval verse fictions.
Jacques Milet, La Forest de Tristesse, a critical edition.
Les Femmes et la ‘Rose’, XVe-XVIe siècles (anthology and commentary in French).
This presents selected fifteenth- and early-sixteenth-century texts representing a vital strand of pro-feminine literature which tackles the alleged misogyny of Le Roman de la rose.
Collaborative activities
Co-principal researcher in the MARGOT Research Group (see under 3, above)
Program committee of SIEFAR-sponsored project: Discours sur l'égalité des femmes et des hommes, de 1750 aux lendemains de la Révolution française
Member, AHRC-funded Research Network on Obscenity in Renaissance France (principal investigator: Hugh Roberts, University of Exeter)
Service
Responsibilities and activities at college, departmental and University level, especially Outreach and Schools Liaison programmes.
Recent service
Responsibilities and activities at college, departmental and University level, especially Outreach and Schools Liaison programmes.
2006-date
Sub-Faculty of French Schools Liaison Officer
Sub-Faculty of French Year Abroad Officer
Coordinator of Sutton Trust Summer School French Course
Fellow and Tutor, and University Lecturer (CUF) in Medieval French,
