Distinguished Professor, English Department
(Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
tel.: (607) 777-6408
fax.: (607) 777-2408
e-mail: mdesmon@binghamton.edu
Areas of Interest
Medieval literature
Classics and Medieval narrative
Chaucer
Feminist Theory / Queer Theory
Manuscript Studies
Francophone Middle Ages
Books and Recent Articles
Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence
Myth, Montage and Visible in Medieval Manuscript Culture: Christine De Pizan's Othea (With Pamela Sheingorn)
Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference
Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid
Recent Courses Taught
Chaucer's Troilus and Medieval Textuality
Medieval Colonialisms
Medieval Texts/Postmodern Contexts
Women & Society in Medieval Literature
Ethics of Reading
