Member of the French Studies Department and the MARGOT research group.
Teaching and research interests include medieval French, with a focus on the French of England; medieval French verse hagiography; electronic texts and critical editions; contemporary Quebec and Canadian literature.
Teaching and research interests include medieval French literature and culture, with a focus on Christine de Pizan and the Roman de la rose; iconography and the relation between text and image; late medieval German literature; Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbruecken; science in literature; digital tool development.
Distinguished Professor Emerita
BA (Toronto), MA, PhD (Western)
Link to profile at Conrad Grebel University College.
Laurie J. Postlewate, Senior Lecturer in French, joined the faculty of Barnard in 1997.
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.
Professor emeritus in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science and a member of the Database Research Group.
Teaching and research interests span the fields of data structures and databases, particularly the design of text management systems suitable for maintaining large reference texts (including the Oxford English Dictionary) and large, heterogeneous text collections.