Joseph Duggan
Professor in the Graduate School, French and Comparative Literature

Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professor for 2007-2008

Professor Duggan specializes in medieval French and Occitan language and literature. His principal research interests are medieval epic, romance, and lyric poetry (especially the troubadours). His most recent publications include an edition of the French corpus of the Chanson de Roland (2006), of which he was the general editor; and, within that project, an edition of the Châteauroux and Venice 7 manuscripts of the Chanson de Roland.

Publications include:
The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes (Yale University Press, 2001)

“Garin le Loherain Between Assonance and Rhyme.” Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire 83 (2005), 707-22

“Guilhem IX of Aquitaine’s Poem About Nothing, and the Generation of Meaning,” Contez me tout: Mélanges Herman Braet (Louvain: Peeters, 2006)