Sarah Kay is a professor of French at

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Education

Kay was a student in the UK at the

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Career

She started her teaching career at the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

then moved to the

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. She was head of department at Cambridge from 1996 until 2001 and Director of Studies at

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, from 2003 to 2005. Kay has been a fellow of the

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since 2004 and was awarded a D.Litt. (Cambridge) in 2005.

Publications

* ''Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry'' (Penn University Press, 2013) * (with Adrian Armstrong) ''Knowing Poetry: Verse in Medieval France from the ''

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'' to the '' Rhétoriqueurs' (Cornell University Press, 2011) * ''The Place of Thought: The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry'' (Penn University Press, 2007) * '' Žižek: A Critical Introduction'' (Cambridge: Polity, 2003) * (with Malcolm Bowie and Terence Cave) ''A Short History of

French Literature French literature () generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than Fr ...

'' (Oxford University Press, 2003) * ''Courtly Contradictions'' (Stanford University Press, 2001) * (with

Simon Gaunt Simon Gaunt (1959-2021) was a professor of French literature at King's College London, where he was Head of the French Department and Head of the School of Humanities. He was past president of the Society for French Studies (2006-8), a Fellow ...

) ''The

Troubadour A troubadour (, ; oc, trobador ) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word ''troubadour'' is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a '' trobai ...

s. An Introduction'' (Cambridge University Press, 1999) * ''The Chansons de geste in the Age of Romance'' (Oxford University Press, 1995) * (as co-editor with Miri Rubin) ''Framing

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Bodies'' (Manchester University Press, 1994) * (as editor) '' Raoul de Cambrai'' (Oxford University Press, 1992) * ''

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in Troubadour Poetry'' (Cambridge University Press, 1990)

References

External links

Kay's profile at New York University

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