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Fields of interest:
Kristen Figg is in her fifteenth year at the Salem Campus and serves as both English Coordinator and Honors Program Coordinator. Her areas of specialization and scholarly interest include Medieval Literature and Culture (especially the poetry of Jean Froissart), History of the English Language, Genre Studies, and Composition Studies
Books and select recent publications:
Books
:Jean Froissart: An Anthology of Narrative and Lyric Poetry. [Kristen M. Figg, ed. and trans., with R. Barton Palmer.] New York: Routledge, 2001.
The Princess with the Golden Hair: Letters of Elizabeth Waugh to Edmund Wilson: 1933-1942. [John B. Friedman and Kristen M. Figg, eds.] Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2000.
Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. [John B. Friedman and Kristen M. Figg, eds., with Scott Westrem and Gregory G. Guzman.] New York: Garland, 2000.
The Short Lyric Poems of Jean Froissart: Fixed Forms and the Expression of the Courtly Ideal. Garland Studies in Medieval Literature 10. New York: Garland, 1994.
Articles and Chapters:
“The Narrative of Selection in Jean Froissart’s Collected Poems: Omissions and Additions in BN MSS fr. 830 and 831.” Journal of the Early Book Society 6 (2002): 42-57.
"Froissart's 'Debate of the Horse and the Greyhound': Companion Animals and Signs of Social Status in the Fourteenth Century." In Monsters, Marvels, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination. Eds. David A. Sprunger and Timothy S. Jones. Kalamazoo MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2002. 85-107.
"Critiquing Courtly Convention: Jean Froissart's Playful Lyric Persona." French Studies 48 (1994): 129-42.
"Jean Froissart's 'Lay de la Mort La Royne D'Engleterre'." Allegorica 14 (1993): 61-76.
"Handbook Use in College English I: Classroom Practices and Student Response." Teaching English in the Two-Year College 19 (1992): 185-91.
"Systematic Sentence Play: Making Stylistic Revision a Part of the Writing Process." Ohio Journal of English Language Arts 32.1 (1991): 8-10.
"A 'Sober-Blooded Boy'": The Role of John Lancaster in I and II Henry IV." Selected Papers from the West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association 8 (1983): 9-13.
"Introducing Invention Techniques: A Middle School Writing Assignment." English Journal, 69 (1980): 60-61
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