Professor Sophie Marnette
Sophie Marnette is Professor of Medieval French Studies in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and the Dervorguilla Fellow and Tutor in French at Balliol College, Oxford.
She received her Licence in Romance Philology from the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1991, and her PhD in French (Linguistic track) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996. She has previously held academic positions at the University of Cambridge, the University of St Andrews, the Université libre de Bruxelles, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Berkeley. She was the Chair of the Oxford Sub-Faculty of French in 2016-18 and served as University Proctor in 2019-20.
Her research offers a linguistic and philological approach of literary issues such as the origins and evolution of medieval literary genres, the expression of narrative voice and point of view, the relationship between history and fiction, medieval intertextuality and intratextuality, and gendered discourse strategies in medieval French narratives. Her monographs and edited volumes include Narrateur et points de vue dans la littérature française médiévale : Une approche linguistique (Peter Lang, 1998), Speech and Thought in French : Concepts and Strategies (John Benjamins, 2005), and La Chastelaine de Vergi: Encounters in Medieval Literary Space (with Helen J. Swift, Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming).
