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Peggy McCracken Office: 4206 MLB 1275 |
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Medieval French Literature, Medieval Studies, 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 current projects include a book on human/nonhuman embodiment in medieval texts tentatively entitled In the Skin; a collection of essays, co-edited with E. Jane Burns, called Stones, Worms, and Skin: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe; an English translation of Gui de Cambrai's Old French Barlaam et Josaphat; and a book called The Christian Buddha, co-authored with my colleague, Donald S. Lopez, Jr., on the circulation and reception of Barlaam and Josaphat. Recent and Selected Publications Co-author, with Sharon Kinoshita, Marie de France: A Critical Companion (Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming in 2012). Co-editor, with Karl Steel, "The Animal Turn in Medieval Studies," postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 2.1 (2011). Co-author, with Donald Lopez, “Comparative Temptations: The Role of the Harem in Barlaam and Josaphat and the Buddhacarita,” in Barlaam und Josaphat in der Literatur des Mittelalters, ed. Matthias Meyer and Constanza Cordoni, forthcoming 2012. “The Human and the Floral,” forthcoming in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects, ed. Jeffrey J. Cohen (Punctum Books, scheduled for 2012). “Nursing Animals,” forthcoming in Stone, Worms, and Skin: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe (Notre Dame, In.: Notre Dame University Press, scheduled for 2012). Recent graduate seminars taught: The Medieval Posthuman Medieval Natures Animality and sexuality The romances of Chrétien de Troyes Medieval lives, medieval selves (co-taught with Catherine Brown) Recent undergraduate courses taught: France and the crusades Introduction to medieval literature |