Ardis Butterfield is a scholar of medieval music and literature. She is the Marie Borroff Professor of English, and Professor of Music and French at Yale University United States.
Education
Butterfield read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, followed by a master's degree in medieval literature at the University of Bristol, both in England, after which she returned to Trinity College to complete a PhD. Her PhD was entitled 'Interpolated lyric in medieval narrative poetry' (1988).
Career
In 2009, Butterfield co-founded the Medieval Song Network, a research group, in London, England, UK.
In 2012, Butterfield became a professor of English at Yale University. In 2018, Butterfield became a senior research fellow at University of Cambridge. In 2018, Butterfield had been appointed as the Marie Borroff Professor of English at Yale University. Butterfield is leading a team to develop a Digital Archive of Medieval Song.
Awards
- R.H. Gapper Prize
Bibliography
- The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and the Nation in the Hundred Years War (Oxford University Press, 2009)
- Poetry and Music in Medieval France (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
- ed. Chaucer and the City
References
External links
- Yale-Digital Archive of Medieval Song Project description
- Performing Medieval Text at mhra.org.uk
- New Chaucer Society
