Elizabeth Harper

Elizabeth Harper is a Jefferson Scholars Foundation pre- and post-doctoral fellow (2023-2025), specializing in late Medieval Poetry and vulnerability studies. Her dissertation, “Making Lyric Matter in Late Medieval France,” explores concepts of vulnerability and care ethics through poetic forms that came into being in late medieval France, amid the turmoil of the Hundred Years’ War, countless civil wars, and the Black Death. In addition to her doctoral work, Elizabeth serves as editorial assistant for Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures; is an active board member of the International Machaut Society; has recently finished a 3-year tenure as graduate representative to the Medieval Studies Program at UVa.

Education

Ph.D. in French (ABD), The University of Virginia

M.A. in French (2019), The University of Virginia

B.A. in French (2015), The University of North Carolina at Asheville

Teaching

Elementary French I

Elementary French II

Intermediate French II

Popular Music and Cultural Identities in Contemporary France

Conference Presentations

“Caring for Lyric: Eustache Deschamps’ vil langaige and the Vulnerability of Vernacular Lyric Poetry.” The Medieval Academy of America 97th Annual Meeting (March 2022).

“Traduite en vil langaige au Moyen Âge: Fragilité et care dans la poésie lyrique d’Eustache Deschamps.” Transfert littéraire: Concept et pratique en France et en Chine, Graduate conference at the École Normale Supérieure (March 2022).

“Forming Lyric/Informing Readers in Machaut’s Prologue.” International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 2021).

Awards and Fellowships

Jefferson Scholars Foundation Pre- and Post-doctoral Fellowship, GSAS (2023-2025)                                                                                          

UVA Society of Fellows Dissertation Completions Fellowship, declined (2023-2024)

Graduate Seminar on the Teaching of Writing, participant. PhD Plus UVA (2023)

UVA Arts and Sciences Exchange Fellowship, École Normale Supérieure (2021-2022)

UVA Society of Fellows Summer Research Grant (2020)

UVA Society of Fellows, Junior Fellow (2019-2020)

The Institute of French Cultural Studies, participant. Dartmouth College (Summer 2019)