Professor Bill Burgwinkle
- Emeritus Professor of Medieval French and Occitan Literature
Contact
Location
- King's College, King's Parade, Cambridge, CB2 1ST
About
Bill Burgwinkle is a specialist in Medieval French and Occitan literature, gender and sexuality, and critical theory. PhD from Stanford University. He is a former president of the UK Society for French Studies.
Research
Research interests:
Comparative medieval literature (French, Occitan, Italian & Catalan), Occitan networks and biography, the intersection of history and literature, theories of sexuality and the body, queer theory, film and the visual arts.
Recent research projects:
He is currently working on Occitan para-poetic texts and networks, and completing a book entitled Afterlives of the troubadours.
Published works:
Author of Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature, 1050-1230 (CUP, 2004); Love for sale: Materialist Readings of the Troubadour Razo Corpus (Garland, 1997); Razos and Troubadour Songs (Garland, 1990); co-author of Medieval French literary culture abroad (2020); Sanctity and Pornography: on the verge (Manchester, 2010); co-editor of The Cambridge History of French Literature (CUP, 2011); co-editor of Significant Others: Gender and Culture in Film and Literature, East and West (Hawaii, 1992).