Director, Institute for the Humanities; Medieval French and Occitan literature, gender and sexuality, women's studies.
About
Fields of Study - Medieval French and Occitan Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Women's Studies.
Interests and Current Work
My teaching and research interests are, broadly defined, in the intersections of medieval literature, history, and theory. My research focuses on romance narratives as well as on medieval theatre, poetry, chansons de geste, and medical and theological discourses. In earlier projects I have explored the intersections of medieval theories and practices of queenship with romances about adulterous queens, and the ways in which gendered cultural values are mapped onto representations of blood.
My most recent book is In the Skin of a Beast: Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France (forthcoming in Spring 2017). Other recent projects include In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Christian Saint, co-authored with Donald S. Lopez, Jr., and a translation of Gui de Cambrai's Barlaam and Josaphat. My current book project, Ovidian Ecologies, studies rewritings of Ovid's metamorphoses in medieval France.
Recent and Selected Publications
Co-author, with Donald S. Lopez, Jr., In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Christian Saint (NY: Norton, 2014).
Translator, Barlaam and Josaphat: A Christian Tale of the Buddha (NY: Penguin, 2014)
Co-editor, with E. Jane Burns, Stone, Worms, and Skin: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe (Notre Dame, In.: Notre Dame University Press, 2013).
“Skin and Sovereignty in Guillaume de Palerne,” Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistiques 24 (2012): 361-75.
Co-author, with Sharon Kinoshita, Marie de France: A Critical Companion (Boydell and Brewer, 2012).
“The Human and the Floral,” in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects, ed. Jeffrey J. Cohen (Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 65-90. http://punctumbooks.com/titles/animal-vegetable-mineral-ethics-and-objects/
Co-editor, with Karl Steel, "The Animal Turn in Medieval Studies," Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 2.1 (2011).
“Animals and Translation in the Lais of Marie de France,” Australian Journal of French Studies 46.3 (2009): 238-49.
Affiliation(s)
- Comparative Literature, Romance Languages & Literatures and Women Studies
