Ardis Butterfield is a scholar of medieval music and literature. She is the
Marie Borroff Professor of English, and Professor of Music and French at
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
United States.
Education
Butterfield read English at
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any ...
, followed by a master's degree in medieval literature at the
University of Bristol
The University of Bristol is a public university, public research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Br ...
, both in England, after which she returned to Trinity College to complete a PhD. Her PhD was entitled 'Interpolated lyric in medieval narrative poetry' (1988).
Career
In 2009, Butterfield co-founded the Medieval Song Network, a research group, in London, England, UK.
In 2012, Butterfield became a professor of English at Yale University.
In 2018, Butterfield became a senior research fellow at University of Cambridge. In 2018, Butterfield had been appointed as the Marie Borroff Professor of English at Yale University.
Butterfield is leading a team to develop a Digital Archive of Medieval Song.
Awards
* R.H. Gapper Prize
Bibliography
* ''The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and the Nation in the Hundred Years War'' (
Oxford University Press
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, 2009)
* ''Poetry and Music in Medieval France'' (
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...
, 2003)
* ed.
Chaucer and the City'
References
External links
Yale-Digital Archive of Medieval Song Project descriptionPerforming Medieval Text at mhra.org.ukNew Chaucer Society
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Yale University faculty
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Bristol
British musicologists