Professor Dr. Miranda Griffin

Biography

Miranda Griffin is a Professor of Medieval French Literature and a Fellow at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. She specializes in Medieval French narrative and manuscript culture. Her notable publications include 'Object Cause Vulgate Cycle', published by Maney in 2005, and 'Transforming Tales: Rewriting Metamorphosis in Medieval French Literature', published by Oxford University Press in 2015. Griffin's research interests encompass various topics including representations of landscape in medieval French narrative, medieval theories of temporality, and ecomaterialism. She is also actively involved in widening participation initiatives, delivering outreach lectures to school students, and has acted as an advisor for a Netflix documentary on fabulous beasts. Her teaching focuses on medieval French literature and manuscript culture, exploring themes such as hybridity, ecocriticism, and the reception of Ovid in medieval literature.

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