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Megan Moore
Assistant Professor of French

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Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2005
Medieval French literature & culture, Gender Studies, Medieval Mediterranean Studies, Postcolonial Studies

Professor Moore's research focuses on gender in Old French literature and culture, with special emphasis on how gender impacts the creation and exchange of culture. Her monograph, Exchanges in Exoticism: Byzantium and the Making of the Mediterranean in Old French Romance (in progress) explores how Old French literature imagines women to be fundamentally involved in the creation and exchange of culture around the Mediterranean. She has also published other articles about the relations between East and West in Old French literature ("Hellenism, Islam, and Exoticism in French Medieval Romance," Journal of Modern Hellenism, 2011; "Borders and Byzantines in the Old French Floire et Blancheflor" – Dalhousie French Studies 79, Summer 2007).

Her latest project explores how medieval bodies might be theorized as literary palimpsests, and in particular how gender affects the value of bodily writing. Building off an initial book chapter, ("Chrétien's Romance of Grief: Widows and their Erotic Bodies in Yvain," in Masculinities and Femininities in the Middle Ages, ed. Fred Kiefer. Brepols, 2010), the project will be a book-length study exploring the relations between bodies, gender, and writing in medieval French hagiography, romance, and chansons de geste.

Professor Moore is currently secretary of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, and has served on their general advisory board as well as on the editorial board of their peer-reviewed journal, Medieval Feminist Forum. She has also co-chaired the MLA's Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession, and takes an active interest in graduate student affairs.

Megan Moore

Contact:
210d Arts and Science Building
573-882-3633
mooremegan@missouri.edu

Romance Languages & Literatures
143 Arts & Science Bldg.
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211 USA
tel. 573-882-4874
fax. 573-884-8171
general inquiries: romancelanguages@missouri.edu
graduate program: rlgrad@missouri.edu