Julie Singer

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, the interplay of text and image, and the problem of authority in late medieval texts. Recent and forthcoming publications include articles on Froissart, Machaut, and Boccaccio. She is currently at work on a book project exploring thirteenth- and fourteenth-century poetic constructs of the body, specifically of the eyes and blindness, and the literary remedies that challenge medical/surgical models and methods. Professor Singer’s seminar topics have included the cultural memory of Joan of Arc; the Middle Ages in contemporary French popular culture; reevaluating feminist approaches to the Decameron; and the female body in medieval literature and medicine.