I am a PhD candidate working on medieval French literature and music. My dissertation, Taking Note: French Literature and the Senses of Notation, 1230-1310, asks what the presence of musical notation in French manuscript sources can tell us about literary culture during this period of momentous change in the written record. I am also particularly interested in historical sound studies, the circulation of French across the wider medieval world, and, beyond the Middle Ages, the history and culture of French North America. Before coming to NYU I received an M.Phil. from Cambridge and a B.A. from Amherst, and also studied at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Terrence Cullen
Ph.D. candidate in French
M.A., M.Phil., New York University
M.Phil., University of Cambridge
B.A., Amherst College
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.
“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.