Anne Berthelot

Professor of French and Medieval Studies
Co-Director of Medieval Studies

Education: Doctorat es Lettres, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, 1987

Areas of Interest: Medieval French language and literature, Arthurian Studies, Québécois Literature, Fantasy in literature and film

An “agrégée des lettres” and a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Anne Berthelot is now professor of French and Medieval Studies at the University of Connecticut. Following her dissertation for the French “Doctorat d’Etat” on the writer in 13th century French literature, she has written numerous books and articles on Medieval literature, focusing especially on the Arthurian legend with a comparatist approach. She is part of the team who is making the so-called Lancelot-Grail Cycle accessible to a large audience in the prestigious series of “La Pléiade” (Gallimard). Her most recent book is a synthetic presentation of the Arthurian legend for the Editions du Chêne, La Légende du roi Arthur (Fall 2004), which has now been translated into German. She is working on a book-length study of the enunciation problems in the Roman de Perceforest, and at the same time is preparing an edition of a little-known Arthurian romance that may be considered as the source for thePerceforest, the Roman des fils du roi Constant.

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