Prof. Dr. Catherine Léglu
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| Faculty or Centre | Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences | ||||||||
| Department | Department of Humanities | ||||||||
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Université du Luxembourg Maison du Savoir 2, Avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
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| Campus Office | MSA, E17 1725-080 | ||||||||
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| Telephone | (+352) 46 66 44 9369 | ||||||||
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| Speaks | English, French (native), Spanish, Catalan, Occitan (passive) | ||||||||
| Research Stays in | France, United Kingdom | ||||||||
Catherine Léglu is a medievalist specialising in Occitan and French literature. From 2011 to 2019, she was a professor of medieval French and Occitan literature at the University of Reading in the UK, where she headed the department of modern languages and European studies. Prior to this, she held the post of director of postgraduate education at the School of Literature and Languages of this university and School Director for Research.
Before joining Reading, Ms. Léglu was attached to the departments of French studies at the University of Bristol and at Queen's University in Belfast. She also taught at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Professor Léglu holds a PhD in medieval Occitan and French literature from the University of Cambridge and is of French-British nationality.
In September 2019, she took office as the Vice-Rector for academic affairs of the University of Luxembourg.
Last updated on: Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Last updated on: 23 Aug 2019
In press
Translanguaging, word and image, and the 'Danse Macabre'in Journal of Literary Multilingualism (in press)
2021
‘Le deuil des douze pairs dans "La Mort Alexandre"in Peron, Gianfelice (Ed.) Alessandro Magno nel Veneto medievale e dintorni: Tradizione mediolatina e tradizione romanza (2021)
2020
Crowned Heads and Succession Crises : The Design and Reception of Bernard Gui’s Arbor genealogiae regum francorumin Augustyn, Wolfgang; Worm, Andrea (Eds.) Visualisieren – Ordnen – Aktualisieren. Geschichtskonzepte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit im Bild (2020)
The Kings of Egypt in Paolino Veneto's Universal Chroniclesin Morosini, Roberta; Ciccuto, Marcello (Eds.) Paolino Veneto : Storico, narratore e geografo (2020)
2019
Illicit speech, unsayable bodies, and eighteenth-century medievalism: "Nocrion: conte allobroge"in Forum for Modern Language Studies (2019), 55(2), 171--186
2018
Beziers - 22 July 1209in Heuser, Beatrice; Leoussi, Athena S. (Eds.) Famous Battles and how they shaped the modern world, 2 vols (vol. 1 : c.1200 BCE - 1302 CE, from Troy to Courtrai) (2018)
Conpains, vois tu ce que je voi?: gendered encounters in the Three Living and Three Deadin Reading Medieval Studies (2018), 44
Samson and Delilah in medieval insular French: translation and adaptationBook published by Palgrave Pivot (2018)
2017
Ambivalent visual representations of Robert the Wise in Occitan illustrated textsin Italian Studies (2017), 72(2), 192--204
The 'Vida' of Queen Fredegund in 'Tote Listoire de France': vernacular translation and genre in thirteenth-century French and Occitan literaturein Nottingham French Studies (2017), 56(1), 98-112
Giving voice to Samson and Delilah: troubadour and monastic songs of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuriesin Butterfield, Ardis; Hope, Henry; Souleau, Pauline (Eds.) Performing Medieval Text (2017)
2016
Reading Abbey's Anglo-Norman French translation of the Bible (London, British Library Royal MS 1 C III)in Reading Medieval Studies (2016), 42
2014
Just as fragments are part of a vessel": a translation into medieval Occitan of the life of Alexander the Greatin Florilegium: Journal of the Canadian Society of Medievalists/Société canadienne des médiévistes (2014), 31
2013
A genealogy of the kings of England in papal Avignon: British Library, Egerton MS. 1500in The Electronic British Library Journal (2013), 2013
Vernacular poetry and the spiritual Franciscans of the Languedoc: the poems of Raimon de Cornetin Roach, Andrew P.; Simpson, James R. (Eds.) Heresy and the Making of European Culture: Medieval and Modern Perspectives, edited by Andrew P. Roach andJ ames R. Simpson (2013)
The 'child of Babylon' and the problem of paternity in Medieval French Alexander romancesin Reading Medieval Studies (2013), 39
2012
Translating Lucretia: word, image and 'ethical non-indifference' in Simon de Hesdin's translation of Valerius Maximus's 'Facta et dicta memorabilia'in Campbell, Emma; Mills, Robert (Eds.) Rethinking Medieval Translation. Ethics, Politics, Theory (2012)
2011
L'amant tenu par la bride : Itinéraires d'un motif courtois chez Gaucelm Faidit et sur un coffret limousinin Goustine, Luc De (Ed.) Gaucelm Faidit: amours, voyages et débats (2011)
Antoine de La Sale's 'La Sale': the cannonball and the prince's headin French Studies (2011), 65(2), 143--155
2010
'A New Medea' in late medieval French narrativesin Simon, Anne; Bartel, Heike (Eds.) Unbinding Medea : Interdisciplinary approaches to a classical myth from Antiquity to the 21st century (2010)
Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan and Catalan NarrativesBook published by Pennsylvania State University Press - 1st ed. (2010)
2008
Rebuilding the tower of Babel in Girart de Roussillonin Ailes, Marianne; Saux, Francoise Le; Lawrence, Anne (Eds.) Medieval historical discourses: essays in honour of Professor Peter S. Noble (2008)
Maternal consolatio in Antoine de La Sale's reconfort de Madame de Fresnein Leglu, Catherine; Milner, Stephen (Eds.) The erotics of consolation: desire and distance in the late middle ages (2008)
Languages in conflict in Toulouse: las leys d'amorsin Modern Language Review (2008), 103(2), 383--396
The erotics of consolation: desire and distance in the late middle ages;
Book published by Palgrave Macmillan (2008)
2007
L'art roman et la poésie occitane: une question de traductionin Goustine, L. De (Ed.) Le Troubadour Marcabru et ses contemporains (2007)
Nourishing lineage in Coudrette's Roman de Mélusine ou Histoire de Lusignan (1401)in McNeill, I.; Stephens, B. (Eds.) Transmissions: essays in French literature, thought and cinema (2007)
Between hell and a fiery mountain: Antoine de La Sale's ascent of Vulcanoin Studies in Travel Writing (2007), 11(2), 109--126
2001
Simone de Beauvoir, Les Bouches inutiles, edition with introductionBook published by Duckworth (2001)
Did women perform satirical poetry? Trobairitz and Soldadeiras in Medieval Occitan poetryin Forum for Modern Language Studies (2001), 37(1), 15-25
