Swift, Helen J.

Helen J. Swift is Fellow and Tutor in Medieval French at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Her research interests straddle the late medieval and early modern periods, looking at the poetics of vernacular literature between 1350 and 1550. She is currently working on a monograph-length study,
Understanding Imagination in Medieval French Literature, a critical edition of Jacques Milet's Forest de Tristesse, and an anthology of pro-feminine writings against the Roman de la rose, Les Femmes et la 'Rose', XVe-XVIe siecles.