Stephen G. Nichols

James M. Beall Professor Emeritus of French and Humanities and Research Professor. Specialist in medieval French literature and its interactions with history, philosophy, language theory, and history of art. An important figure in the development of the New Philology movement that renewed the field of medieval studies in the 1990s. Author or editor of twenty-seven books, incl. Romanesque Signs: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography (1983 and 2011), which won the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize for an outstanding book, he holds a Docteur es lettres, honoris causa from the University of Geneva (1992), and was named Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French minister of culture in 1999, and Officier in 2007. In 2008 (and again in 2014), he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's research prize (Forschungspreis). A Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, he is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory, which he also directed from 1995-2001. His most recent books are Mind and Environment in Medieval Manuscripts(2021);From Parchment to Cyberspace: Medieval Literature in the Digital Age (2016); Spectral Sea: Mediterranean Palimpsests in European Literature (2017).