Professor Helen J Swift
Professor of Medieval French Studies
St Hilda's College
My research concerns French literature between the mid-fourteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries, with particular interests in issues of narrative voice, identity construction, text-image relations, and the transition from manuscript to print. Having just completed a book on the literary representation of the dead (https://boydellandbrewer.com/representing-the-dead-hb.html), I have a continuing interest in early modern epitaph poems and am also looking towards a new project on early-sixteenth-century print anthologies of fifteenth-century poetry (especially narrative verse).
