Dr. Jan Ziolkowski

Biography

Jan Ziolkowski is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor in the Department of the Classics. His academic focus is on Medieval Latin literature, with a particular interest in narrative forms and their connections to education, grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic. Ziolkowski also engages with poetics and literary criticism, exploring the theory and practice of these disciplines during the Middle Ages. His research touches on various aspects of popular culture in the medieval period, especially the interplay between folktales and literary sources, particularly in Latin and the vernacular. His extensive body of work has established him as a leading scholar in the field of Medieval studies, illuminating the intricacies of Latin-vernacular relations and the broader implications of medieval literature on contemporary understanding of historical narratives.

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