Presented by the UCSB Department of French and Italian, Medieval Studies Program, and Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Wednesday, April 2 / 4:00 P.M. / Free McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Professor Huot's talk looks at issues of disruption and continuity of identity in tales of both madness and bodily metamorphosis, asking whether identity in medieval French texts seems to be primarily produced through performance or located in the body. It will preview her latest book, Madness in Medieval French Literature: Identities Found and Lost, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. As one of the world’s leading scholars of medieval French literature, University of Cambridge Professor Sylvia Huot has published extensively on a broad spectrum of issues and received many prestigious awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her books include: From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry, The Romance of the Rose and its Medieval Readers: Interpretation, Reception, Manuscript Transmission and Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet: The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony. This event is cosponsored by the UCSB Department of French and Italian, Medieval Studies Program, and Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. Top of Page <<Back