Peggy McCracken

Professor of French and Women's Studies Associate Dean for Academic Initiatives at Rackham Graduate School Ph.D. in French, 1989, Yale University

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Email: peggymcc@umich.edu

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Scholarly Interests: Medieval French literature and culture; gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages.

Biography: Peggy McCracken is Professor of French and Women's Studies and Associate Dean for Academic Initiatives at Rackham Graduate School. Her work is broadly focused on gender and sexuality in medieval literature and culture.  She is the author of The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature (2003), The Romance of Adultery: Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature (1998), and coeditor of Constructing Medieval Sexuality (1997), and, with Basil Dufallo, Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe (2006). 

Publications:

“Love and Adultery,” Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend, ed. Elizabeth Archibald and Ad Putter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2009).

“Dying for Love in the Prose Lancelot: Masculinity and Death” for Entre Hommes: French and Francophone Masculinities, ed. Lewis C. Seifert and Todd Reiser. (Dover: University of Delaware Press, forthcoming in 2009).

“Maternity and Chivalry after Chrétien: The Case of King Lot’s Wife,” Cahiers de recherches médiévales 14 (2007): 76-85.