CONTACT INFORMATION:
Senior Lecturer in French
Department of French Studies
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
| Office Telephone: | +44 (0)161 275 3227 |
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| Active email: | adrian.armstrong@man.ac.uk |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.art.man.ac.uk/FRENCH/staff/armstrong.shtml |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.art.man.ac.uk/SML/medieval/home.htm |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Grands rhétoriqueurs.
Medieval and Renaissance literature and culture.
Critical theory.
Textual, visual, and text-image studies.
Text editing.
My research centres around grand rhétoriqueur poetry; late medieval and early Renaissance literature; manuscript studies and bibliography; and the influence of book form upon literature.
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Please see URL above
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
History of the Medieval Book:
Postgraduate course taught on Manuscript Studies and Early Printing. Ongoing research into manuscript and early printed transmission/presentation of late medieval French poetry.
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Jonathan Hensher, ‘The text-image relationship in 18th- and 19th- century French translations of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso.
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in staff exchanges with WUN partner institutions.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Please see URL above.
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