Associate Professor, Arts and Ideas in the Humanities
About
Catherine Brown, Ph.D, is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Residential College. A scholar of medieval Europe, she studies and thinks about early medieval Iberian visual and textual cultures, medieval Iberian Romance and Latin literatures, language technologies and thought.
She is author of Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism (Stanford U. P., 1998) and articles on the Libro de Buen Amor, the Arçipreste de Talavera, Marie de France, and Abelard and Heloise. Her current book, Remember the Hand: The Articulate Codex in Early Medieval Iberia, studies the self-representation of scribal activity in illuminated manuscripts produced in Iberian monasteries in the 10th and 11th centuries.
Affiliation(s)
- Comparative Literature
- Romance Languages