Caroline Jewers

Caroline Jewers has taught courses in French and medieval studies since 1990. Her research program focuses on medieval French and Occitan lyric and narrative poetry, and on chivalric romance - most particularly on Arthurian texts and their context. Her first book, Chivalric Fiction and the History of the Novel (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2000) began a career-long interest in the romance and its development. She has written numerous articles on this topic, and on the works of the troubadours, making occasional forays into medievalism and popular culture. She is also a fan of detective fiction, and has begun teaching and researching the rise of the roman policier from its beginnings in France to the present day.