| 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, Medieval Roles for Modern Times, exploring the aesthetic, political and personal effects of the Middle Ages for the twentieth century, is forthcoming with The Penn State University Press (2009). It has already 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;
Modern French Cultural History; Theater;
Gender Criticism. 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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