The Translator: Michael J. Curley is University Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. He earned his Ph.D. in English language and literature at the University of Chicago. He is the translator of the Latin Physiologus and Marie de France's Purgatory of Saint Patrick. His other publications include a book on Geoffrey of Monmouth, and numerous scholarly articles on medieval literature.