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Emma Campbell is an Assistant Professor of French Literature at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University. Her research focuses on medieval French textual traditions, examining intersections between medieval culture and modern critical theories such as feminist, queer, and postcolonial studies. She explores how medieval texts challenge gender, sexual, and social norms, particularly through hagiography, bestiaries, and translation studies. Her work has been supported by grants from the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Her research interests include medieval French literature (pre-14th century), translation studies, gender/sexuality studies, and animal studies. She has authored books like Reinventing Babel in Medieval French (2023) and Medieval Saints’ Lives (2008), and co-edited volumes such as Rethinking Medieval Translation (2012) and Troubled Vision (2004). Her current project, A Moral Ecology of Creation, investigates medieval bestiaries’ relevance to contemporary gender and sex studies.
Her publications analyze how medieval texts engage with translation’s limitations, gender fluidity, and animal-human boundaries. Recent work emphasizes the ethical and theoretical implications of medieval translation practices, linking them to modern debates about cultural difference and power.
Campbell teaches courses on medieval French literature, gender studies in medieval texts, and the intersection of nature and human embodiment. She has received grants supporting her research into medieval textual traditions and their modern resonances, including AHRC funding for her work on translation untranslatability.
