Emma Campbell is Associate Professor/Reader in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick. Focusing on the francophone literary cultures of the Middle Ages, her work explores how contemporary approaches can be brought into dialogue with medieval texts. She has published on a range of works prior to the fourteenth century, including major traditions such as saints' lives and bestiaries. She is the author of Medieval Saints' Lives: The Gift, Kinship and Community in Old French Hagiography (2008) and co-editor of two further books, including Rethinking Medieval Translation: Ethics, Politics, Theory (2012).