Anna Julia Cooper Distinguished University Professor of Medieval French Literature and Professor of French, Women's and Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature
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Office Information:
phone: 734.764.5344
Women's and Gender Studies
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., French Literature, Yale University, 1989
B.A., French, University of North Carolina, 1981
About
Peggy McCracken is a scholar of medieval French literature. She has published several books on gender and sexuality in medieval literature and culture, and on a medieval saint's life based on the life of the Buddha. Her most recent book is In the Skin of a Beast: Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France (2017), which engages literature along with posthumanist and critical animal theory. Her current book project, Ecologies of the Human, explores ways in which medieval thinkers imagined the persistence and precarity of human being in adaptations and rewritings of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Affiliation(s)
- Comparative Literature, Romance Languages & Literatures and Women's and Gender Studies
Field(s) of Study
- Medieval French literature and culture
- gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages
- Feminism and posthumanist theory
- French feminism
