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Cynthia J. Brown
Professor of French
Affiliate of the Medieval Studies Program and
Film Studies
Educational Background
- 1973-78: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- 1976-77: École Normale Supérieure, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
- 1971-73: M.A., University of California, Berkeley
- 1966-70: B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University of New Hampshire
- 1968-69: Université de Dijon, France
Academic Distinctions and Awards
- Summer 2006: National Endowment for the Humanities Stipend Award
- 2006-2007: University of California President's Fellowship for the Humanities
- Fall 2003: Camargo Foundation Fellowship
- June 2000: Borchard Foundation International Symposium Grant
- Spring 1999: Borchard Foundation Scholar-in-Residency Grant
- 1996 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, Modern Language Association
- 1987-1988: American Council of Learned Societies Grant
- Summer 1986: National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar Grant
- Summer 1980: National Endowment for the Humanities Stipend Award
Research Interests
- Late medieval/early Renaissance French literature and culture
- Libraries of late medieval women
- The transition from manuscript to print culture
- Issues of authority and authorship
- The relationship between text and image
- The book as cultural artifact
- Text editing
Major Publications
- The Shaping of History and Poetry in Late Medieval France: Propaganda and Poetic Expression in the Works of the Rhétoriqueurs. Birmingham: Summa, 1985.
- Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. Awarded the MLA Scaglione Prize in 1996.
- Special issue of The Journal of the Early Book Society: Women and the Book Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern France, co-edited with Martha Driver, Volume IV (2001).
- And numerous articles on 15th- and 16th-century literature and culture
Critical Editions
- André de la Vigne's Ressource de la Chrestienté (1494). Montreal: CERES, 1989.
- Critical edition of Pierre Gringore's Oeuvres, Volume I (Oeuvres rédigées sous le règne de Louis XII). Geneva: Éditions Droz, 2003.
- Critical edition of Pierre Gringore's Oeuvres, Volume II (Entrées royales à Paris de Marie d'Angleterre (1514) et de Claude de France (1517), Geneva: Éditions Droz, 2005.
Current Research
- Currently working on a book on the images of female sovereignty in late medieval Europe, entitled Ambiguous Images: Women of Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Work in progress
- Also working on a critical edition of Volume III of Gringore's works for Éditions Droz.