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Miranda Griffin is Professor of Medieval French Literature,听and Fellow in French at Murray Edwards College. Her first book, The Object and the Cause in the Vulgate Cycle, was published by Maney in 2005; her second, Transforming Tales: Rewriting Metamorphosis in Medieval French Literature, was published by OUP in 2015. She has also published articles on the medieval French lais and fabliaux, as well as the Ovide moralis茅, the poetry of Christine de Pizan, and the thirteenth-century encyclopaedia, L鈥橧mage du monde. Her current research focuses on the representation of landscape in medieval French literature and manuscript culture. She has contributed to In Our Time programmes (BBC Radio 4) on Christine de Pizan and La Chanson de Roland; and acted as an advisor on a Netflix documentary about fabulous beasts.
As a former comprehensive school student, Miranda is interested in widening participation. She regularly gives outreach lectures to school students.
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- Medieval French literature
- Medieval manuscript culture
- Manuscript materiality
- Prose and verse romance
- Bestiaries
- The reception of Ovid in medieval French literature
- Metamorphosis and hybridity
- Gender
- The animal turn
- Ecocriticism
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- Landscape in medieval French narrative
- Medieval representations of space and time
- Medieval theories of temporality
- Ecocriticism and ecomaterialism
- Text and image in medieval manuscripts
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Imagined Landscapes in Medieval French Literature
Books
Monographs
Transforming Tales: Rewriting Metamorphosis in Medieval French Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
The Object and the Cause in the Vulgate Cycle, (Oxford: Legenda, 2005).
Edited volume
The Futures of Medieval French Literature: Essays in Honour of Sarah Kay, edited by Jane Gilbert and Miranda Griffin (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2021)
Contributing author
Knowing Poetry in France: From the Rose to the Rh茅toriqueurs, by Sarah Kay and Adrian Armstrong, with the participation of Rebecca Dixon, Miranda Griffin, Sylvia Huot, Francesca Nicholson and Finn Sinclair (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2011).
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Book chapters
鈥楾he World in an Egg: Reading Medieval Ecologies鈥�, in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination, ed. Giulia Sissa and Francesca Martelli (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 125-144.*
鈥榃 for Wasteland鈥�, in Wastiary: A Bestiary of Waste, ed. Michael Hennessy Picard, Albert Brenchat-Aguilar, Timothy Carroll, Jane Gilbert, and Nicola Miller, special issue of Think Pieces, (Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London: London, 2023).
(with Jane Gilbert) 鈥業ntroduction鈥� to The Futures of Medieval French Literature: Essays in Honour of Sarah Kay, edited by Jane Gilbert and Miranda Griffin (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2021), pp. 1-11.
鈥業ntroduction to Part VI: Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries鈥�, in The Futures of Medieval French Literature: Essays in Honour of Sarah Kay, edited by Jane Gilbert and Miranda Griffin (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2021), pp. 283-86.
鈥楳茅lusine and Margaret: Hybrids and Monstrous Maternity鈥�, in Corps hybrides aux fronti猫res de l'humain au Moyen 脗ge. Actes du colloque international de Louvain-la-Neuve (19-20 avril 2018), ed. Antonella Sciancalepore (Louvain-la-Neuve, Publications de l鈥橧nstitut d'茅tudes m茅di茅vales, 2020), pp. 63-82
鈥楩ortune鈥檚 Touch: Reading Transformation in Christine de Pizan鈥檚 Mutacion de Fortune鈥�, in Ovidian Transversions: 鈥淚phis and Ianthe,鈥� 1300-1650, ed. Patricia Badir, Peggy McCracken and Valerie Traub (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), 99-117.
鈥楾ranslation and Transformation in the Ovide moralis茅鈥�, in Rethinking Medieval Translation: Ethics, Politics, Theory, edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2012), pp 41-60.
鈥楾he Grail鈥� in The 海角社区 History of French Literature, edited by William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond and Emma Wilson (海角社区: 海角社区 University Press, 2011), pp. 76-83.
鈥楾he Beastly and the Courtly in Medieval Tales of Transformation鈥�, in The Beautiful and the Monstrous, ed. Amaleena Daml茅 and Aur茅lie L鈥橦ostis (Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 139-50.
鈥楾oo Many Women: Reading Freud, Derrida and Lancelot鈥� in Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality and Sight in Medieval Text and Image, ed. Emma Campbell and Robert Mills (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 207-20.
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Articles
鈥極n the Trail of the Sibyl鈥檚 Mountain: Antoine de la Sale鈥檚 Le Paradis de la reine Sibylle鈥�, in Category Crossings: Bruno Latour and Medieval Modes of Existence, ed. Marilynn Desmond and Noah Guynn, special issue of Romanic Review, 111.1 (May 2020), 8-26.
鈥楩igures in the Landscape: Encounters and Entanglements in the Medieval Wilderness鈥�, Versions of the Natural from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, ed. Sarah Kay and Nicolette Zeeman, special issue of Journal for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 49.3 (September 2019), 501鈥�520.
鈥樷�淯nusual greenness鈥�: Approaching Medievalist Ecomaterialism鈥�, Exemplaria, 30.2 (April 2018), 172-181.
鈥業magining Ovid and Chr茅tien in Fourteenth-Century French Libraries鈥�, French Studies 70 (2016) (Special Issue: The Medieval Library), 201-215.
鈥楾he Time of the Translator in the Ovide moralis茅,鈥� Florilegium 31 (2014), 31-53 (published in 2016).
鈥樎鼶ont me revient ceste parole ?听禄听Echo, voice and citation in Le Lai de Narcisse and Cristal et Clarie鈥� Cahiers de Recherches M茅di茅vales et Humanistes, 22 (2012), 59-74.
听鈥楾he Space of Transformation: Merlin Between Two Deaths鈥�, Medium Aevum, 80 (2011), 85-103.
鈥楢nimal Origins in Perceforest鈥�, Cahiers de Recherches M茅di茅vales et Humanistes, 21 (2011), 169-84.
鈥楾ransforming Fortune: Reading and Chance in Christine de Pizan鈥檚 Mutacion de Fortune and Chemin de long estude鈥�, Modern Language Review, 104 (2009), 55-70.
鈥榃riting Out the Sin: Charlemagne, Arthur and the Spectre of Incest鈥�, Neophilologus, 88 (2004), 499-519.
鈥楧irty Stories: Abjection in the Fabliaux鈥�, New Medieval Literatures, 3 (2000), 229-60.
鈥楪ender and Authority in the Medieval French Lai鈥�, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 35 (1999), 42-56.
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Translations
Translation of excerpt of the Ovide moralis茅, in collaboration with Blake Gutt and Peggy McCracken, in Ovidian Transversions: 鈥淚phis and Ianthe,鈥� 1300-1650, ed. Patricia Badir, Peggy McCracken and Valerie Traub (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 279-86.
Translation of excerpt of Christine de Pizan, La Mutacion de Fortune, in Ovidian Transversions: 鈥淚phis and Ianthe,鈥� 1300-1650, edited by Patricia Badir, Peggy McCracken and Valerie Traub, ed. Patricia Badir, Peggy McCracken and Valerie Traub (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 288-89.
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