Michelle Warren

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210A Reed Hall
(603) 646-6498
michelle.r.warren@dartmouth.edu

Research and Teaching Interests

Creole Medievalism (the role of colonialism in the formation of French medieval studies, focused on the Réunionnais writer Joseph Bédier)
Making Furs, Making Romance (literary culture in early fifteenth-century London, centered on the translation of French romances sponsored by the Skinners' Guild)
Courting Empire (regional poetics in the works of Chrétien de Troyes)

"Lydgate, Lovelich, and London Letters."
Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century.
Ed. Lisa Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 113-38.
"Translation." Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English.
Ed. Paul Strohm. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 51-67.
"Au commencement était l'île: The Colonial Formation of Joseph Bédier's Chanson de
Roland." Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures.
Ed. Ananya J. Kabir and Deanne M. Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. 205-26.
"The Noise of Roland." Exemplaria 16.2 (2004): 277-304.
Postcolonial Moves: Medieval through Modern, co-editor with Patricia Clare Ingham.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. "Post-Philology," pp. 19-45.
"Memory out of Line: Hebrew Etymology in the Roman de Brut and Merlin." MLN:
Modern Language Notes 118.4 (2003): 989-1014.
"Joking with the Enemy: Beyond Ritual in the Ordene de chevalerie." Exemplaria 15.2 (2003): 263-96.
"The Flavor of Sin in the Ordo representacionis Ade." Neophilologus 86 (2002): 179-95.
History on the Edge: Excalibur and the Borders of Britain, 1100-1300.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
"Interpreting Codicology: Re-visions of the Divine Comedy in the Codex Altona."
Media Matters: Technologies of Literary Production. Mosaic 28.4 (1995): 13-37.