Dr. Miranda Griffin

Biography

Miranda Griffin is a Professor of Medieval French Literature at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics and Murray Edwards College. Her research primarily focuses on the representation of landscape in medieval French literature and manuscript culture. She has published significant works, including 'Object Cause Vulgate Cycle' by Maney in 2005 and 'Transforming Tales: Rewriting Metamorphosis in Medieval French Literature' by Oxford University Press in 2015. Griffin's academic interests include medieval French lais, fabliaux, the poetry of Christine de Pizan, and the thirteenth-century encyclopaedia 'L’Image du monde'. She actively contributes to outreach efforts, regularly giving lectures to school students to foster engagement in the humanities. Her teaching covers a range of topics from medieval manuscript culture to ecocriticism, with particular attention to the intersections of gender and environmental themes in literature.

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