Jacqueline Victor is a specialist in medieval literature. She received her PhD in French from the University of Chicago in 2020 and was a Humanities Teaching Fellow from 2020-2022. She loves to teach across a range of humanities topics and has taught courses in French language, French literature, academic writing, and the Humanities Core (Reading Cultures).
Her current book project, “Ladies Errant: Gender and Adventure in Old French Romance,” constructs an account of female adventure in the genre most widely known for the masculine figure of the knight errant. Separately, she is working on a collaborative edition and translation of an early 15th-century account of a French conquest of the Canary Islands, The Book Called the Canarian. Jacqueline has published on the Romance of the Rose in the journal Exemplaria (“Time and the Reader of the Roman de la Rose”) and has translated numerous academic articles and chapters from French to English.
Beyond RLL, Jacqueline is also an instructor in the Basic Program of Liberal Arts for Adults at the University of Chicago Graham School, and was the Education Manager at the Swedish American Museum from 2022-2023.
Recent Courses in RLL
- FREN 10100 Beginning Elementary French I (Autumn 2017)
- FREN 14100 French for Romance Language Speakers (Autumn 2018)
- FREN 20100 French Language, History, and Culture I (Winter 2021)
- FREN 20200 French Language, History, and Culture II (Spring 2021)
- FREN 22724 French Detective Fiction (Autumn 2023)
- FREN 23219 The Medieval Mediterranean (Winter 2019)
- FREN 23333/33333 Reading French for Research Purposes (Autumn 2020)
- FREN 25622 Narratives of Travel and Conquest, 12th-16th centuries (Spring 2022)
- FREN 25724 Ladies Errant: Adventure and Gender in Chivalric Literature (Winter 2024)
- FREN 26324 C’est moi qui vous parle : La voix du narrateur/auteur dans la littérature française prémoderne (Spring 2024)