| Position in department | Part-time Teacher |
| E-mail | pgillies (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk) |
| Room | 5A.131 |
| Biography |
- BA Hons in History, Northwestern University; Ph.D. French Literature and Language, Thesis in Comparative Literature, Northwestern University
- Scholar-in-Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library (1985-1996)
- Member of the Cambridge Medieval French Research Seminar (2002-3)
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| Research interests | Theoretical approaches to literature and art history, Lacanian theory, narratives and apocalyptic figuration in Medieval beast literature, expression and configuration of light in Old French romance, gender/genre implications, narrative structures and the construction of kingship in Old French epic and Medieval and Renaissance analogues, negotiations with primordial figuration in troubadour poetry and parallels in narrative design of other genres, literary tradition and Thomas Hobbes’s Historia Ecclesiastica, issues in modernism, expression and configuration of light in the works of Stephane Mallarmé, Old and Middle English literature, Old Icelandic literature, the theory and practice of literary translation. |
| Publications | Link to publications for Patricia Gillies |