NUI Galway, French, Staff

Email:	catherine.emersonnuigalway.ie
Phone:	353 (0)91 49 3801
Fax:	353 (0)91 49 4508
Office Location:	Room 323, Top Floor, Arts Millennium Building

Biography

Catherine Emerson has been a lecturer in French at National University of Ireland, Galway since 2002, having previously taught at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Hull. She studied at Trinity College, Oxford and at Hull, where she obtained her PhD in the rhetoric of historiography in the Mémoires of Olivier de La Marche.

Catherine is the editor of a number of volumes of collected essays and is on the editorial board of the Medieval Identities Socio-Cultural Spaces series with Brepols. She currently sits on the National Council of the Irish Federation of University Teachers and is Chair of its Galway branch.

Teaching Areas

• Medieval Literature and language
• Eighteenth-Century Ideas
• French Language

Research Interests

• Fifteenth-century literature and history
• The Mémoires of Olivier de la Marche
• Manneken Pis as Belgian regional icon
• Sixteenth-century editions of medieval works

Recent Publications

Performance. Drama and Spectacle in the Medieval City, co-edited with Adrian P. Tudor and Mario Longtin (Leuven: Peeters, 2010)

’No Way to Treat your Mother: Understanding Petit Jehan de Saintré’s Rage’, French Studies, 65.4 (2011)

’A Question of Paternity: Denis Sauvage, Philippe de Commynes and Olivier de La Marche’ in Essays in Later Medieval French Literature: The Legacy of Jane H. M. Taylor ed. by Rebecca Dixon (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010)

’Paul Cazin, Manneken-Pis and the Deification of Boyhood’ in Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies 1.2 (2007)

Olivier de la Marche and the Rhetoric of Fifteenth-Century Historiography (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, May 2004)

’"Au Commencement de mon eaige et du premier temps que je puis entrer en matière". L’Unité du temps et de l’espace dans le récit de la jeunesse d’Olivier’ in « Autour d’Olivier de La Marche » Publication du Centre européen des études bourguignonnes (XIVe-XVIe s.), 43 (2003)

’The Infant of Brussels: The Manneken-Pis as Christ Child’, Irish Journal of French Studies, 3 (2004)

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