Professor Miranda Griffin

Research interests: 

• Landscape in medieval French narrative
• Medieval representations of space and time
• Medieval theories of temporality
• Ecocriticism and ecomaterialism
• Text and image in medieval manuscripts

Recent research projects: 

Imagined Landscapes in Medieval French Literature

Published works: 

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 Rhétoriqueurs, 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).

Book chapters

‘The World in an Egg: Reading Medieval Ecologies’, in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination, ed. Giulia Sissa and Francesca Martelli (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 125-144.*

‘W for Wasteland’, 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) ‘Introduction’ 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.

‘Introduction to Part VI: Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries’, 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.

‘Mélusine and Margaret: Hybrids and Monstrous Maternity’, in Corps hybrides aux frontières de l'humain au Moyen Âge. Actes du colloque international de Louvain-la-Neuve (19-20 avril 2018), ed. Antonella Sciancalepore (Louvain-la-Neuve, Publications de l’Institut d'études médiévales, 2020), pp. 63-82

‘Fortune’s Touch: Reading Transformation in Christine de Pizan’s Mutacion de Fortune’, in Ovidian Transversions: “Iphis and Ianthe,” 1300-1650, ed. Patricia Badir, Peggy McCracken and Valerie Traub (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), 99-117.

‘Translation and Transformation in the Ovide moralisé’, in Rethinking Medieval Translation: Ethics, Politics, Theory, edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2012), pp 41-60.

‘The Grail’ in The Cambridge History of French Literature, edited by William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond and Emma Wilson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 76-83.

‘The Beastly and the Courtly in Medieval Tales of Transformation’, in The Beautiful and the Monstrous, ed. Amaleena Damlé and Aurélie L’Hostis (Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 139-50.

‘Too Many Women: Reading Freud, Derrida and Lancelot’ 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.

Articles

‘On the Trail of the Sibyl’s Mountain: Antoine de la Sale’s Le Paradis de la reine Sibylle’, 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.

‘Figures in the Landscape: Encounters and Entanglements in the Medieval Wilderness’, 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), 501–520.

‘“Unusual greenness”: Approaching Medievalist Ecomaterialism’, Exemplaria, 30.2 (April 2018), 172-181.

‘Imagining Ovid and Chrétien in Fourteenth-Century French Libraries’, French Studies 70 (2016) (Special Issue: The Medieval Library), 201-215.

‘The Time of the Translator in the Ovide moralisé,’ Florilegium 31 (2014), 31-53 (published in 2016).

‘« Dont me revient ceste parole ? » Echo, voice and citation in Le Lai de Narcisse and Cristal et Clarie’ Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes, 22 (2012), 59-74.

 ‘The Space of Transformation: Merlin Between Two Deaths’, Medium Aevum, 80 (2011), 85-103.

‘Animal Origins in Perceforest’, Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes, 21 (2011), 169-84.

‘Transforming Fortune: Reading and Chance in Christine de Pizan’s Mutacion de Fortune and Chemin de long estude’, Modern Language Review, 104 (2009), 55-70.

‘Writing Out the Sin: Charlemagne, Arthur and the Spectre of Incest’, Neophilologus, 88 (2004), 499-519.

‘Dirty Stories: Abjection in the Fabliaux’, New Medieval Literatures, 3 (2000), 229-60.

‘Gender and Authority in the Medieval French Lai’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 35 (1999), 42-56.

Translations

Translation of excerpt of the Ovide moralisé, in collaboration with Blake Gutt and Peggy McCracken, in Ovidian Transversions: “Iphis and Ianthe,” 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: “Iphis and Ianthe,” 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.