Caroline Prud’Homme
Contract Instructor
| Degrees: | B.A. (Université de Montréal); M.A. (Université de Montréal); Ph.D. (University of Toronto) |
| Email: | carolineprudhomme@cunet.carleton.ca |
| Office: | 310A Paterson Hall |
Biography
Caroline Prud’Homme is a Contract Instructor in the College of the Humanities and the Department of French at Carleton University. She has held several teaching positions, including at Glendon College/York University, Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Ottawa, as well as research appointments at the University of Liverpool and the Newberry Library in Chicago. She has extensively published in the field of Medieval Studies, and is particularly interested in the emergence of the modern writer persona. She is currently researching dream accounts of female protagonists in “chansons de geste” and Arthurian romances.
Research interests
Literature and society
Medieval and Early Modern book history
Medieval manuscripts and writing culture
Travel literature, poetry and literary genres
2023/2024 Courses
HUMS 3200/ENG 3201 European Literature (F/W)
FREN 2001 French IV (W)
Selected Publications
“Mermaid, Mother, Monster, and More: Portraits of the Fairy Woman in 15th and 16th Century Mélusine Narratives.” In Misty Urban & als, eds., Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth. Brill, Leiden, 2017: 52-73.
“Grandeur et décadence de l’homme pauvre au Moyen Âge : représentations littéraires et moralistes de la pauvreté aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles.” In Elisabetta Sibilio, ed., Rappresentazioni artistiche e sociali della povertà. Cassino, Edizioni Università di Cassino & Centre Editoriale di Ateneo, 2017: 17-33.
“The Ghost of Chroniclers Past: The Transmission and Legacy of the Chroniques of Jean Froissart in the Anchiennes Chroniques d’Engleterre compiled by Jean de Wavrin”. Mémoires du livre 4, n. 2 (Spring 2013).
“Un monde de saveurs. La mise en mots de l’expérience culinaire chez quelques voyageurs du Moyen Âge.” In François Moureau et als, ed., Itinéraires littéraires du voyage. Geneva, Droz, 2013: 73-79.
“Le faulx pais de Flandre. Les guerres de Flandre (1379-1385) vues par trois témoins contemporains.” In Olivier Delsaux & Hélène Haug, éds., “Original et originalité.” Aspects historiques, philologiques et littéraires. Louvain, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2011: 163-171.
“Donnez, vous recevrez. Les rapports entre écrivains et seigneurs à la fin du Moyen Âge à travers le don du livre.” COnTEXTES. Revue de sociologie de la littérature n. 5 (mai 2009).