Ardis Butterfield
John M. Schiff Professor of English; Professor, French, Music
Ardis Butterfield specializes in the works of Chaucer, literatures of France and England from the 13th to 15th centuries, and on medieval music, as well as on theories and histories of language, form, and genre, city writing, bilingualism and medieval linguistic identities. Her books include the prize-winning The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and the Nation in the Hundred Years War and Poetry and Music in Medieval France. She edited Chaucer and the City, a collection of essays inspired by her undergraduate course on London in Literature. Butterfield co-founded The Medieval Song Network, a collaborative, international project to encourage new interdisciplinary research on the medieval lyric. Visit the YaleNews website for the full “Take Five” interview.
Before coming to Yale, Professor Butterfield broadcasted regularly on radio and television in the UK!