Daisy Delogu is a specialist of medieval French literature and political thought. Her research focuses on how literary practices of figuration such as metaphor and allegory shape individual identities and social relations. Editor or co-editor of several volumes, Delogu is the author of Allegorical Bodies: Power and Gender in Late Medieval France (2015) and Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign: The Rise of the French Vernacular Royal Biography (2008). Delogu is the Howard L. Willett Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the College and Faculty Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago.
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