#  Jan Ziolkowski 

Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin

Ph.D. Cambridge University

 

 

 



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Jan Ziolkowski's research addresses Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages, the medieval rhetorical tradition, and medieval poetry and poetics. In addition to his work as series editor of *Harvard Studies in Medieval Latin,* Professor Ziolkowski is a prolific author and translator; among his publications are *Alan of Lille’s Grammar of Sex: The Meaning of Grammar to a Twelfth-Century Intellectual* (Medieval Academy of America, 1985), *Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies* (University of Michigan Press, 2007), *The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years* ((with Michael Putnam; Yale University Press, 2008), and most recently the six-volume *The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity* (Open Book Publishers, 2018). From 2007 to 2020, Prof. Ziolkowski served as Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., during which time he launched the *Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library* series of translated works with Harvard University Press.



 

 

 





 

 

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