| Helen Solterer received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1986. Her research and teaching focus on medieval & early modern vernacular writing, modern cultural history, and contemporary theater. She has published The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture (California, 1995), which won the MLA Scaglione Prize. Her current book, Playing for Life: Medieval Roles for Modern Times, explores the aesthetic, political and personal effects of the Middle Ages for the twentieth century. It has led to the essays "Gustave Cohen at Pont-Holyoke: The Drama of Belonging to France" (2005), "Performer le passé" in Paul Zumthor ou l’invention permanente. Critique, histoire, poésie (1998), and "European Medieval Studies Under Fire, 1919-45," a special issue of The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies that she edited in 1997. She continues to write on free speech and verbal injury; essays include "The Freedoms of Fiction for Gender in Premodern France" (2002), and "Fiction vs. Defamation: The Quarrel over the Romance of the Rose" Medieval History Journal (1999). Education:
- PhD University of Toronto, 1986
- Year of Study Université de Paris VII, 1983
- Masters of Art University of Toronto, 1981
- Bachelor of Arts Georgetown University, 1978
- Year of Study University College of Dublin, 1978
Research Interests:
Pre-modern French Literature and Culture;
Theater;
Gender Criticism; Modern French Cultural History Representative Publications (More Publications)
- The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture. University of California Press, September, 1995. (co-awarded The Modern Language Association Scaglione Prize, 1995)
- "The Waking of Medieval Theatricality, Paris 1935-1995." New Literary History 27:3 (1996): 257-90.
- co-authored with E. Jane Burns, Sarah Kay, and Roberta L. Krueger. "Feminism and the Discipline of Old French Studies: "Une Bele Disjointure"." Medievalism in a Modernist Temper Ed. R. Howard Bloch, Stephen G. Nichols. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, 225-266.
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