School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Dr James Simpson

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  • Reader (French)

telephone: 01413306346
email: James.Simpson@glasgow.ac.uk


Research interests:

I have worked or am working on various areas in medieval literary studies and on a range of genres mostly from the 12th and 13th centuries. Previous publications have dealt with French Arthurian romance, animal epic (Le Roman de Renart), epic poetry, comic narrative, not to mention the translation and transmission of classical works (especially Ovid). Since early on in my career, I have been (somewhat incorrigibly) interested in exploring modern critical approaches to medieval texts and cultures, notably psychoanalytically-based approaches, gender studies.  My more recent projects have also been focusing on questions of manuscript context. Along with my colleague Andrew Roach, I am currently editing the proceedings from the special thematic strand on 'Heresy and Orthodoxy' at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds in July 2009.  I am also involved in Project Hunter 252 relating to the compilation known as Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles.

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Number of items: 18.

2013

Roach, A.P. and Simpson, J., (Eds.) (2013) Heresy and European Culture: Medieval and Modern Perspectives. Ashgate. (In Press)

Roach, A.P., Simpson, J.R. and Angelovska-Panova, M., (Eds.) (2013) Heresy and the Limits of Orthodoxy: Medieval and Modern Perspectives. Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, UK. (In Press)

Roach, A.P. and Simpson, J.R., (Eds.) (2013) Orthodoxy and its Eccentricities: Negotiating and Locating Heresy, Dissent and Deviation in Medieval and Modern Perspective. Brepols. (In Press)

Simpson, J. (2013) Dogging Cornwall’s 'secret freaks': Béroul on the limits of European ortho. In: Simpson, J. (ed.) Heresy and the Limits of Orthodoxy in Medieval and Modern Perspective. Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, UK. (In Press)

2012

Simpson, J. (2012) Aucassin, Gauvain, and (Re)Ordering Paris, BnF, fr. 2168. French Studies, 66 (4). pp. 451-465. ISSN 0016-1128 (doi:10.1093/fs/kns149)

Simpson, J. (2012) “Uns uers si mals”: H.R. Giger et les animaux de cour dans la Chanson de Roland. In: Alvar, C. and Carta, C. (eds.) In Limine Romaniae: Chanson de Geste et Épopée Européenne. Peter Lang, Bern. ISBN 9783034310659

2011

Simpson, J. (2011) Humour and the Obscene. In: Burgwinkle, W., Hammond, N. and Wilson, E. (eds.) The Cambridge History of French Literature. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, USA, pp. 111-120. ISBN 9780521897860

Simpson, J.R. (2011) 'Oem walschedi?' Touching on tongues, teeth and skin in Van den vos Reynaerde. Queeste, 18 . pp. 32-57. ISSN 0929-8592

2010

Simpson, J. and MacDonald, E., (Eds.) (2010) Mangling Cultures: Conflict, Dissonance and Interpretation in Modern Language Studies. Series: Tous Azimuts. Glasgow French and German Publications, Glasgow. ISBN 9780852619179

Peacock, N. (2010) Molière and his manglers: the cultural politics of le patrimoine thèâtral? In: MacDonald, E. and Simpson, J. (eds.) The Culture Mangle: Conflict, Dissonance and Interpretation in Modern Language Studies. Series: Tous azimuts (4). University of Glasgow French and German, Glasgow, pp. 71-96. ISBN 9780852619179

Simpson, J. (2010) Arthur’s Scots scars: The last legion. In: MacDonald, E. and Simpson, A. (eds.) The Culture Mangle: Conflict, Dissonance and Interpretation in Modern Language Studies. Series: Tous Azimuts (4). University of Glasgow French and German publications, Glasgow, pp. 156-186. ISBN 9780852619179

Simpson, J., and MacDonald, E. (2010) Introduction: Culture mangling: Conflict and dissonance in Modern Language studies. In: MacDonald, E. and Simpson, J. (eds.) The Culture Mangle: Conflict, Dissonance and Interpretation in Modern Language Studies. Series: Tous Azimuts (4). University of Glasgow French and German publications, Glasgow, pp. 1-21. ISBN 9780852619179

2008

Simpson, J. (2008) Kings and Feudalism. In: Gaunt, S. and Kay, S. (eds.) Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 197-209. ISBN 9780521861755

2007

Simpson, J. (2007) Lion-heart of darkness? The black book of the court in Le Chevalier au Lion. Nottingham French Studies, 46 (3). pp. 49-61. ISSN 0029-4586

Simpson, J. (2007) Troubling arthurian histories: court culture, performance and scandal in Chrétien de Troyes's Erec et Enide. Series: Medieval and early modern French studies, 5 . Peter Lang, Bern. ISBN 9783039113859

2006

Simpson, J. (2006) F**king peasants: presence, status and sexuality in Renart et Bertot. In: Tudor, A., Hindley, A. and Levy, B.J. (eds.) Grant Risee?: The Medieval Comic Presence: Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy. Series: Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe (11). Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium, pp. 319-335. ISBN 9782503516981

2003

Simpson, J. (2003) The fox and the lion's share: tyranny, textuality and jouissance in the Roman de Renart. In: Horn, J. and Russell-Watts, L. (eds.) Possessions: Essays in French Literature, Cinema, and Theory. Series: Modern French Identities (24). Peter Lang, Oxford, pp. 21-36. ISBN 9783039100057

2000

Simpson, James (2000) Fantasy, Identity and Misrecognition in Medieval French Narrative. P. Lang. ISBN 3906766160

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Areas of supervision:

I have supervised doctoral dissertations in a range of areas (the Anglo-Norman version of Ami et Amile; masculinity in Grail, masculinity in medieval French Narbonnais cycle; hagiography, space and migration; dialectal features in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles ). In terms of medieval studies, I am currently supervising on a project dealing with ideas of location and territory in hagiography and related genres. I have also supervised on a wide range of topics in the context of the M.Litt. in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Teaching:

  • French Level 1: literature and culture; Comparative Literature (various)
  • Honours options: ‘Court and Conflict in Medieval French Literature’, ‘Satire and Subversion in Medieval French Literature’; ‘European Linguistics and Language Study’; ‘Vampires’
  • Postgraduate (PGT) teaching: ‘European Studies: Cultures, Societies and Languages in Europe and Beyond; ‘Medieval and Renaissance Studies’