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Marisa Galvez
Director, Stanford Center for Poetics
Professor of French and Italian
Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies and of Comparative Literature
Director, French and Italian
Director, Structured Liberal Education
Professor of French and Italian
Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies and of Comparative Literature
Director, French and Italian
Director, Structured Liberal Education
Marisa Galvez is Professor of French and Italian, and by Courtesy, of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. She specializes in the literature of the Middle Ages in France and Western Europe, especially the poetry and narrative literature written in Occitan and Old French. She is the author of two books, both published by University of Chicago Press: Songbook: How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe (2012) and The Subject of Crusade: Lyric Romance, and Materials, 1150–1500 (2020). Her current book project concerns contemporary and modern translations of medieval lyric and how they propose new ways of "lyric knowing" the Global South.