School of Modern Languages and Cultures
French Section

Professor Angus J.Kennedy (M.A., Ph.D.)
Stevenson Chair of French Language and Literature
Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques

Room 121
Modern Languages Building
16 University Gardens
telephone: 0141-330 4584
fax: 0141-330 4234
electronic mail: A.Kennedy@french.arts.gla.ac.uk

Although my research interests have covered (a) French Arthurian Literature and (b) Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-c. 1430), France's first professional female writer, I now concentrate exclusively on the latter. In addition to editing five of her texts, the Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (1977, with Kenneth Varty), the Lamentacion sur les maux de la France (1980), the Epistre de la prison de vie humaine (1984), the Epistre à la reine (1990) and the Livre du corps de policie (1998), I have made available two analytical bibliographies covering manuscripts, early and modern editions and translations, critical studies and reviews (1984, 1994). My particular interests include codicology, the principles of editing, gender studies, the interaction of literature and politics, and the rise of fifteenth century humanism. It is clear from the extraordinary explosion of fifteenth-century studies over the last two decades that what was once considered to be an autumnal era of disintegration and decline is in fact an exciting period of innovation and experiment. I have tried to widen interest in Christine de Pizan studies by my role as organiser of the IVth International Colloquium on Christine de Pizan, held in Glasgow 21-27 July 2000, by my role as European President of the International Christine de Pizan Society and as a member of the editorial board of a new series published by Champion and devoted entirely to Christine studies (Etudes christiniennes). Current projects include the publication in three volumes of the proceedings of the conference referred to above, and a further volume of bibliography to cover the period 1991-2001.

 



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