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  Research Interests:

Pre-modern French Literature and Culture; Twentieth-Century European Cultural History; Performance Studies; Gender Studies. Research Interests include questions of fiction, memory, history; political discourse -- Christine de Pizan, Alain Chartier, François Villon; and contemporary experimental theater.

Recent Papers, Books and Preprints
  1. Medieval Roles in Modern Times: Theater and the Battle for the French Republic (February, 2010), pp. 271 pages, 40 figures, The Pennsylvania State University Press.
  2. H. Solterer, Theatre and Theatricality, in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature (2008), pp. 181-194, Cambridge University Press.
  3. H. Solterer, Making Names, Breaking Lives: Women & Injurious Language, in Cultural Performances in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Nancy Freeman, edited by Eglal Doss-Quinby, Robert Krueger, E. Jane Burns (2007), pp. 207-21, Boydell & Brewer.
  4. Helen Solterer, Gustave Cohen at Pont-Holyoke: The Drama of Belonging to France, edited by Christopher Benfey, Karen Remmler, Artists, Intellectuals, and World War II (2006), pp. 145-61, University of Massachusetts Press.
  5. Fiction versus Defamation: The Quarrel over the Romance of the Rose, The Medieval History Journal, vol. 2 no. 1 (1999), pp. 111-141.
  6. Performer le passé, in Paul Zumthor ou l’invention permanente. Critique, histoire, poésie, edited by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Christopher Lucken (1998), pp. 117-159, Droz.
  7. co-authored with E. Jane Burns, Sarah Kay, and Roberta L. Krueger, Feminism and the Discipline of Old French Studies: "Une Bele Disjointure", in Medievalism in a Modernist Temper, edited by R. Howard Bloch, Stephen G. Nichols (1995), pp. 225-266, Johns Hopkins University Press.
  8. The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture (September, 1995), University of California Press (co-awarded The Modern Language Association Scaglione Prize, 1995.).