Julie Singer received her Ph.D. in Romance Studies from Duke University in 2006. Her research focuses on medieval French and Italian literature and culture; particular interests include literature and medicine, the cultural history of science and technology, disability studies, posthuman theory, and the interplay of text and image. Recent and forthcoming publications include articles on Froissart, Machaut, Villon, Molinet, and Boccaccio. Her first book, Remedial Verse: Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry, was published in Boydell and Brewer’s Gallica series in 2011. She is currently at work on a second project, tentatively titled Oxidation Before Oxygen: A Cultural History of Rust in the Medieval West, in which she examines the ways in which popular understandings of a scientific concept (rust) gave rise to widespread but previously unstudied metaphors of disability (especially mental illness) in medieval literature.
Professor Singer is a Faculty Associate and a member of the Association of Women Faculty (AWF) Board. Her seminar topics have included the cultural memory of Joan of Arc; relationships between medieval and contemporary culture; contacts between Europe and the East in medieval literature; and body and disability in medieval texts. She has also coordinated French 308, Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis. Professor Singer is the acting Director of Undergraduate Studies in French for Fall 2011.
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