SARAH KAY (D.Phil., Oxford) is Professor of French and a specialist in medieval French and Occitan literature. She taught in the UK at the University of Liverpool and then at Cambridge, where she was head of the department of French (1996-2001) and Director of Graduate Studies (2003-5); she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2004 and awarded the degree of Litt.D (Cambridge) in 2005. Her major publications are an edition of Raoul de Cambrai (Oxford, 1992) and three monographs on aspects of medieval literature (Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry, Cambridge, 1990; The Chansons de geste in the Age of Romance, Oxford, 1995; Courtly Contradictions, Stanford, 2001). She also co-edited Framing Medieval Bodies (Manchester, 1994) with Miri Rubin, and The Troubadours. An Introduction (Cambridge, 1999) with Simon Gaunt. With Malcolm Bowie and Terence Cave she co-wrote A Short History of French Literature (Oxford, 2003). Her interest in modern thought and theory lead her in 2003 to publish the first monograph in English on the work of Slavoj Zizek. Her current research is on the relationship between poetry and knowledge in late medieval France, a 4-year project funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council (for more information see http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/poeticknowledge/).