Terrence Cullen

Postdoctoral Language Lecturer of French

Terrence Cullen is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture. He specializes in the literature, music, and manuscript culture of the French Middle Ages. His current book project, Hear This Page: Cultures of Listening and the Medieval French Manuscript, examines the modes of listening detailed in thirteenth-century narratives and their reproduction on the manuscript page. He has also published on linguistic contact and vernacular devotion in the Middle Ages and maintains an interest in the history of sound technologies both premodern and modern.

 

Education

M.A., M.Phil., New York University
M.Phil., University of Cambridge
B.A., Amherst College

Research Interests

Medieval French literature, especially lyric poetry and song; medieval musicology and sound studies; manuscript studies; the development of French as a written language and its use outside of France in the Middle Ages.

Publications

“John of Howden’s Rossignos and the Sounds of Francophone Devotion,” forthcoming in New Medieval Literatures.

“A Pastourelle in Outremer: The Politics of Hybridity in ‘L’altrier cuidai aber druda’,” Neophilologus 103.2 (2019): 171-187.