Maureen Boulton

Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Professor of French

Degrees

B.A., College of New Rochelle; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; M.Litt.,University of Oxford

Research Profile

Boulton is a medievalist with particular interests in the areas of religious literature, textual criticism, manuscript studies and the relations between lyric poetry and medieval romance. She has edited two fourteenth-century texts, the Old French Evangile de l'Enfance and a related text in Anglo-Norman, the Enfaunces de Jesu Crist. Her third book, The Song in the Story, a study of lyric quotations in 13th and 14th-century romances, was published in 1993. Her book Anglo-Norman Literature. A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, completed in collaboration with Ruth J. Dean, was awarded the Prix Chavé by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (Paris) in 2001. She is editing a collection of texts on Passion Devotion in Anglo-Norman England, and is beginning a study of apocryphal lives of Christ in Old and Middle French, entitled Pious Fictions.

Contact Information

221 Decio Faculty Hall
631-8027
boulton.1@nd.edu