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Donald Maddox

Professor

Contact Information

Location: Herter Hall 323
Phone: (413) 545-2314
Email: maddox@frital.umass.edu
Personal Web Site: http://people.umass.edu/maddox/

 

Biography

Donald Maddox holds a Ph.D. in French Studies from Duke University and is Professor of French Studies and an associated faculty member of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a charter member and Honorary President of the International Courtly Literature Society.  He is the author of five books and over one hundred articles on topics in Medieval Studies, French literature and critical theory, and he has co-edited seven collective volumes on literary aspects of the Middle Ages.

Recent Publications

FICTIONS OF IDENTITY IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE, Cambridge University Press, 2000; paperback 2005.

THE ARTHURIAN ROMANCES OF CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES: Once and Future Fictions, Cambridge University Press, 1991; paperback 2008.

PARISIAN CONFRATERNITY DRAMA OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY: The 'Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages', co-editor, Brepols, 2008.

THE MEDIEVAL FRENCH ALEXANDER, co-editor, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2002.

FROISSART ACROSS THE GENRES, co-editor, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 1998.

MELUSINE OF LUSIGNAN: Founding Fiction in Late Medieval France, co-editor, Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Research Interests

His research focuses on Medieval and Early Modern Studies; Literary and Cultural Theory; Old French Philology and History of the French Language.  He is currently at work on projects in the history of alchemy; Latin and vernacular hagiographic traditions; and representations of time in Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the present.