Professor Sylvia Huot
College:
Pembroke College
Positions:
Professor of Medieval French Literature
Department of French
On leave Easter 2013
Postal Address:
Pembroke College
Trumpington Street
CAMBRIDGE CB2 1RF
Email:
sh225@cam.ac.ukPhone:
(+44) (0)1223 339881
Fax:
(+44) (0)1223 335062
Sylvia Huot specialises in in medieval French literature. She is the author of
From Song to Book (Cornell University Press, 1987);
The Romance of the Rose and its Medieval Readers (CUP, 1993);
Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet (Stanford University Press, 1997);
Madness in Medieval French Literature (OUP, 2003);
Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest (D.S. Brewer, 2007); and
Dreams of Lovers and Lies of Poets: Poetry, Knowledge and Desire in the Roman de la Rose (Legenda, 2010). She is also the co-editor of
Rethinking the Romance of the Rose (University of Pennsylviania Press, 1992). She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2011.
