Research program overview

I have three main projects at present, and a number of collaborative ventures.

1. Understanding Imagination in Late Medieval French Literature (1340-1540)
   This monograph harnesses medieval literary, theological and psychological understandings of imagination's status as a key to interpreting a corpus of later medieval verse fictions.
2. Jacques Milet, La Forest de Tristesse, a critical edition.
3. Les Femmes et la ‘Rose’, XV^e-XVI^e siècles (anthology and commentary in French).
   This presents selected fifteenth- and early-sixteenth-century texts representing a vital strand of pro-feminine literature which tackles the alleged misogyny of Le Roman de la rose. The anthology will be linked to my project for the MARGOT Research Group: Women and the Rose: reading the Roman de la rose in the 'querelle des femmes'.

Collaborative activities

• co-principal researcher in the MARGOT Research Group (see under 3, above)
• program committee of SIEFAR-sponsored project: Discours sur l'égalité des femmes et des hommes, de 1750 aux lendemains de la Révolution française
• member, AHRC-funded Research Network on Obscenity in Renaissance France (principal investigator: Hugh Roberts, University of Exeter)