Mary Fair Croushore Collegiate Professor of Humanities, Professor of French, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature
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About
Fields of Study - Medieval French 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 (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, 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.
Recent and Selected Publications
Co-editor, with Valerie Traub and Patricia Badir, Ovidian Transversions: 'Iphis and Ianthe,' 1300-1650 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019)
In the Skin of a Beast: Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017)
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)
Co-author, with Sharon Kinoshita, Marie de France: A Critical Companion (Boydell and Brewer, 2012).
Affiliation(s)
- Comparative Literature, Romance Languages & Literatures and Women Studies
Field(s) of Study
- Areas of Interest: Critical animal studies
- Posthumanism
- Medieval French Literature
- Gender and Sexuality
- Women's Studies
