Sarah Kay


Sarah Kay is a professor of French at New York University.

Education

Kay was a student in the UK at the University of Oxford.

Career

Her teaching career commenced at the University of Liverpool before transitioning to the University of Cambridge. She served as the head of the department from 1996 to 2001 and as Director of Studies at Girton College, Cambridge, from 2003 to 2005. Kay has been a fellow of the British Academy since 2004 and was awarded a D.Litt. in 2005.

Publications

Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry Knowing Poetry: Verse in Medieval France from the Rose to the Rhétoriqueurs The Place of Thought: The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry Žižek: A Critical Introduction A Short History of French Literature Courtly Contradictions The Troubadours. An Introduction The Chansons de geste in the Age of Romance Framing Medieval Bodies Raoul de Cambrai