Dr Miranda Griffin

Degrees &  Honours:     

MA (Cambridge), MPhil (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge)

Research Interests:    

Medieval French literature

Biography:    

After a comprehensive education in Wiltshire, I came to Cambridge to study French and German at New Hall (now Murray Edwards College), where I did my BA, MPhil in European Literature, and PhD on the Vulgate Cycle, a long thirteenth-century prose narrative about King Arthur, the knights of the Round Table, and the Holy Grail. I have taught in the universities of Cambridge (where, I’ve been a Fellow of Corpus Christi, Girton, and St Catharine’s Colleges) and Oxford. My current research focuses on the representation of landscape in medieval French literature and manuscript culture. I am committed to widening participation in Higher Education.

Publications:    

Books

• The Futures of Medieval French Literature: Essays in Honour of Sarah Kay,, edited by Jane Gilbert and Miranda Griffin (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2021)
• Transforming Tales: Rewriting Metamorphosis in Medieval French Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
• 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).
• The Object and the Cause in the Vulgate Cycle, (Oxford: Legenda, 2005).

Articles

• ‘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. A. Sciancalepore (Louvain-la-Neuve, Publications de l’Institut d'études médiévales, 2020), pp. 63-82
• ‘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’, Journal for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 49.3 (September 2019), 501–520.
• ‘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.
• ‘“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).
• ‘Translation and Transformation in the Ovide moralisé’, in Rethinking Medieval Translation, edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2012).
• ‘« 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).
•  ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘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), 207-20.
• ‘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, to appear in Ovidian Transversions: “Iphis and Ianthe,” 1300-1650, ed. Patricia Badir, Peggy McCracken and Valerie Traub (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019, 279-86.
• Translation of excerpt of Christine de Pizan, La Mutacion de Fortune, to appear 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, 288-89.