Contributors
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R. Howard Bloch is Sterling Professor of French and Chair of the Humanities Program at Yale University. His last book was A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066, and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry. He is currently working on a book on Stéphane Mallarmé, The World’s Most Difficult Poem.
Catherine Conybeare is Professor of Classics at Bryn Mawr College, where she also serves as Director of the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art. Her publications include Paulinus Noster and The Irrational Augustine, both from Oxford University Press; she is currently working on The Laughter of Sarah, which examines the place of delight in the Judeo-Christian interpretative tradition.
Denyse Delcourt is a medievalist teaching in French and Italian Studies at the University of Washington. She has published a book and several articles on French medieval literature. She is also the author of a novel, a finalist for two literary prizes, and the editor of a book on French fairy tales. She is currently working on women and/as trees in French medieval romance.
Geraldine Heng is Perceval Professor and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin. The author of Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy, she is currently completing The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, a volume commissioned by the Medieval Academy of America. Heng founded and co-directs the Global Middle Ages Project (G-MAP), the Mappamundi digital initiatives, and the Scholarly Community on the Global Middle Ages. She holds the Winton Chair at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2012–13.
Laurence Hooper (PhD, Cambridge, 2009) taught at the University of Notre Dame from 2009–2010 and is currently the inaugural holder of the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Chicago. His research considers issues of authorial [End Page S294] voice and literary form in Italian culture, with particular reference to the medieval period and the twentieth century. Hooper’s current research project is a monograph on Dante’s status as a literary author in the light of theological conceptions of exile, entitled Exile and Authorship in Dante. He has published articles on Dante’s Vita nova, on Pier Paolo Pasolini, and on the translation of Italian dialect poetry.
C. Stephen Jaeger is Gutgsell Professor emeritus in the departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign. He is the author of The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950–1200 (U of Pennsylvania P, 1994); Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility (U of Pennsylvania P, 1999). His most recent book is Enchantment: On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West (U of Pennsylvania P, 2012). He was a colleague of Eugene Vance at University of Washington for 15 years.
Joachim Küpper is Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Literatures at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is the director of the Dahlem Humanities Center, Berlin and a member of the German National Academy of Sciences. He is currently working on a book on general principles of cultural exchange (ERC Advanced Grant Project DramaNet).
Anne Latowsky is an Assistant Professor of French at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Emperor of the World: Charlemagne and the Construction of Imperial Authority, 800–1229 (Cornell UP, 2013), as well as other articles and book chapters on the subject of the medieval Charlemagne legend. She completed her dissertation under the direction of Eugene Vance in 2004.
Stephen G. Nichols is James M. Beall Professor Emeritus of French and Humanities, and Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University. He co-founded the electronic journal, Digital Philology, A Journal of Medieval Culture, and co-directs JHU’s Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts. Recent books include: Philology, History, Theory: Rethinking the New Medievalism; The Long Shadow of Political Theology; Rethinking the Medieval Senses, and a new, augmented edition of Romanesque Signs, Medieval Narrative and Iconography. He and Eugene Vance were undergraduates together at Dartmouth College, and...
