Rate My Professor Emma Cayley

Cayley’s research focuses on medieval French literature, society, and culture from 1300 to 1550, encompassing French poetry by Alain Chartier and Christine de Pizan, gender studies, literary and poetic communities, text and image relations, manuscript studies, the history of the book, material culture, and digital humanities. Her major publications include Debate and Dialogue: Alain Chartier in his Cultural Context (Oxford University Press, 2006), Chartier in Europe (co-edited with Ashby Kinch, Gallica/Boydell & Brewer, 2008), Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 1350–1550: Packaging, Presentation and Consumption (co-edited with Susan Powell, Liverpool University Press, 2013), and A Companion to Alain Chartier c.1385–1430: Father of French Eloquence (co-edited with Daisy Delogu and Joan E. McRae, Brill, 2015). She has edited collaborative journal issues for the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences and is preparing co-edited volumes on courtly communities for Liverpool University Press. In leadership, she chairs the University Council of Modern Languages since 2021, previously serving as Vice-Chair for External Engagement and Communication; she is President of the International Courtly Literature Society’s British Branch since 2017 and International Executive since 2019. Cayley has been co-editor of French Studies (2016–2021), serves on editorial boards for Encomia and Leeds Medieval Studies, and is series editor for 'Material Culture and the Medieval World' at I.B. Tauris. Her contributions extend to digital projects like the Exeter Book digitization and app, AHRC peer review, and public media engagements on languages and culture.