Megan Moore

Megan Moore holds her PhD from the University of Michigan and is currently Assistant Professor of French at the University of Missouri, where she focuses on medieval Mediterranean Studies, with special emphasis on gender in Old French and medieval Greek culture. Her first monograph, Exchanges in Exoticism: Cross-Cultural Marriage and the Making of the Mediterranean in Old French Romance (2014) explores how Old French literature imagines women to be fundamental to the creation and exchange of...See more

Megan Moore holds her PhD from the University of Michigan and is currently Assistant Professor of French at the University of Missouri, where she focuses on medieval Mediterranean Studies, with special emphasis on gender in Old French and medieval Greek culture. Her first monograph, Exchanges in Exoticism: Cross-Cultural Marriage and the Making of the Mediterranean in Old French Romance (2014) explores how Old French literature imagines women to be fundamental to the creation and exchange of culture around the Mediterranean, specifically between Byzantium and western Europe. She has also published essays on East-West relations in Old French literature, as well as on feminist pedagogy and on Hellenism in Byzantium. See less