Chimene Bateman
Stipendiary Lecturer in French
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Teaching
I teach French literature from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century. I also teach translation from French to English.
Research
My main research interests lie in medieval and early modern French literature, and in challenging the conventional distinction between them. As my postgraduate training was in Comparative Literature (French, Classics and Italian), I have a keen enthusiasm for working across national boundaries as well as chronological ones. My areas of specialty are literature and gender, courtly and erotic literature, and the influence of classical antiquity on medieval and early modern Europe. I am completing a book on the figure of the female addressee in medieval and sixteenth-century French and Italian literature; it considers both the literary and ethical implications of addressing literature to women. My current research project is a study of the literary and political afterlives of Virgil鈥檚 Aeneid in medieval and early modern France, with a focus on Aeneas and Dido as refugees who become founders of states.
Selected Publications
鈥� 鈥楿neasy States of Matrimony: Marriage in Transit in Montaigne鈥檚 Essais鈥�, in Montaigne in Transit: Essays in Honour of Ian Maclean, ed. by Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar and Wes Williams (糖心logo: Legenda, 2017), pp. 77-96
鈥� 鈥楾he Hybrid Art of the Compiler: Text/Image Relations in the Ovide moralis茅 of Colard Mansion鈥�, in Text/Image Relations in Late Medieval French and Burgundian Culture, ed. by Rosalind Brown-Grant and Rebecca Dixon (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015), pp. 143-64
鈥� 鈥業rrepressible Malebouche: Voice, Citation and Polyphony in the Roman de la rose鈥�, Cahiers de recherches m茅di茅vales 22 (2011), 鈥楲es voix narratives du r茅cit m茅di茅val: Approches linguistiques et litt茅raires鈥�, ed. by Sophie Marnette and Helen Swift, 9-23
鈥� 鈥楾he Lyonnaise Medusa: Louise Lab茅 in the Poetry of Olivier de Magny鈥�, Romanic Review, 100.4 (Nov. 2009): 453-472
鈥� 鈥楢mazonian Knots: Gender, Genre, and Ariosto鈥檚 Women Warriors鈥�, MLN, 122.1 (2007), 1-23
鈥� 鈥楶roblems of Recognition: The Fallible Narrator and the Female Addressee in Partonopeu de Blois鈥�, Mediaevalia, 25.2 (2004), 163-79