Catherine Emerson

I studied French and History at Trinity College Oxford, where I got my BA and my Master of Studies. I then went to Hull where I studied for a PhD and started teaching as a Graduate Research Assistant in the French Department and the Centre for Medieval Studies. My research interests are in mémoires, life writing, canon formation and identities. I am particularly interested in expressions of identity in the Burgundian Netherlands and in modern Belgium and I am the author Regarding Manneken Pis: Culture, Celebration and Conflict in Brussels . I am working on a study of the role of sixteenth-century translator and editor, Denis Sauvage and his role in canon formation. I am also a member of the international research group studying Charlemagne as a European Icon.I am currently head ofsecond year and year abroad co-ordinator in the BA programme inFrench. I teach French language in second year and French literature in all years of the BA programme.I especially enjoy teachingmedieval literature,language and culture.

My research is primarily in the late medieval period: my doctorate was a study of the Mémoires of Olivier de la Marche (ca. 1426-1502) and the culture of the Burgundian Netherlands. I am also interested in manuscript and print culture, in the relationship between history and literature and in the civic and regional societies of Belgium. I have published a study of Manneken-Pis, a urinating fountain in Brussels, and its cultural significance. I am currently leading a Marie Sklodowska-Curie doctoral training network, REBPAF a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:www.universityofgalway.ierebpafwww.universityofgalway.ierebpaf training 13 researchers in 6 universities who are preparing doctoral theses on the medieval and early-modern book. My personal research examines a sixteenth-century editor of medieval texts, Denis Sauvage, and his impact on the canon. Im also preparing an edition of a fifteenth-century history, theFleur des histoires by Jean Mansel.

I teach both language and literature in French and particularly enjoy teaching medieval French, which allows me to teach both aspects simultaneously. I teach medieval literature in the original language to final year and masters students. I also teach literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in undergraduate courses, and contemporary literature and music in Masters courses. I am particularly interested in appropriation and reappropriation of literary texts in different historical periods and by different genres and have designed a second-year team-taught course examining the way that canonic texts have been adapted for cinema.