Dr C.V. de Morrée (Cécile)

Cécile de Morrée is Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature. She has published extensively on medieval literature, specializing in song and performance culture in the Low Countries and its neighboring regions. Her research themes include gender, spirituality, orality, book history and manuscript culture and her work covers literature in Middle Dutch, Middle French and Middle German. She is also a trained singer, complementing her research of medieval song with modern performance. In 2020, she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel for her transnational study of French and Dutch printed songbooks. Her current work centers on women's agency, sexual violence and empowerment in Dutch and French popular song (15th-16th c.).

• Critical Humanities