Daisy Delogu
Assistant Professor of French
Office: Wieboldt 226
ddelogu@uchicago.edu
Professor Delogu's scholarship focuses on the political literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as well as on late medieval lyric works. Professor Delogu has published articles on the works of Jean Froissart, Jean d'Arras, Philippe de Mézières, Christine de Pizan, Alain Chartier, and Antoine de la Sale. Her book Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign: The Rise of the French Vernacular Royal Biography was published by the University of Toronto Press (2008). She is currently at work on a new book project, provisionally entitled Dame France Gives Birth to a Nation: Rethinking Constructions of Political Authority in Late Medieval France.
Education
- PhD in French, University of Pennsylvania, 2003
- Diplôme d'Études Supérieures, Université de Genève, 2000
- MA in French, University of Pennsylvania, 1998
- BA in French, Cornell University, 1993
Awards, Honors, and Professional Experience
- Residential Fellowship, Franke Institute for the Humanities, 2005-2006
- Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, 2002-2003
- Jacob Javits Fellowship, 1997-2002
Selected Courses Taught
- Poets at War, Political Literature of the Hundred Years War
- Love's Books, Love's Looks: Textual and Visual Perspectives on the Romance of the Rose
- Medieval Romance XII-XIV centurie
- Auteurs et publics dans les texts médiévaux
- Débats et querelles littéraires au Moyen Âge
- Introduction to French Literature I, the Middle Ages – XVII Century
- La Stylistique