Dr. Ardis Butterfield

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Ardis Butterfield is the Marie Borroff Professor of English and a (by courtesy) Professor of French Music at Yale University. Her research focuses on the literatures and music of France and England from the 13th to the 15th centuries, exploring how writers and composers engaged with social, material, and theoretical aspects of their practices. She has received numerous accolades, including the Leverhulme Research Fellowships and the R.H. Gapper Prize from the Society of French Studies. Butterfield has published extensively, with several significant books and around 60 articles and essays. Her works delve into medieval lyric theory, the interplay of word and music, and the complexities of bilingualism and translation. Butterfield has held various esteemed appointments, such as visiting fellowships at Trinity College, Cambridge, and roles at the University of Virginia and Souls College, Oxford. She is recognized as a leading scholar in her field and has served as president of the New Chaucer Society from 2016 to 2018. Currently, she is completing a new edition of medieval English lyrics and working on a book titled Medieval Songlines: Theory of Medieval Song.

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