William C. Calin, Graduate Research Professor of French, University of Florida

An internationally-known medieval scholar, Professor William Calin has authored eleven books and over a hundred articles and chapters in books. His areas of expertise include medieval literature (epic, romance, allegory); French poetry (Renaissance to the present); Occitan (Provençal), Anglo-Norman, and modern Breton literature; and Franco-British literary relations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. His book, The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England received the American Library Association Outstanding Academic Book of the Year award in 1995. His most recent volumes include Minority Literatures and Modernism: Scots, Breton, and Occitan, 1920-1990 and The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics: From Spitzer to Frye. His current project is The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval and Renaissance Scotland.