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Anne Coldiron, Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1996), specializes in late-medieval and Renaissance literature, with publications on such authors as Chaucer, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton. Because of her research focus on French-English literary relations, translation, and early printing, she will join FSU's new interdisciplinary program in the History of Text Technologies in Spring 2007.

Her first book issues a strong challenge to traditional literary periodization and canons by examining the large, tri-lingual oeuvre of a 15th-century French poet, Charles of Orleans. Her second and third book projects treat the many verse translations made from French to English in the formative early decades of printing in England. Where Cultures Collide: Printing, Translation, and the Idea of Renaissance Poetry (tentative title; in early stages) and English Printing, Verse Translation, and the Battle of the Sexes, 1476-1557: Between the Sheets (forthcoming) study the early Tudor printers' and translators' complex, resistant appropriations of French poetry. Coldiron has held Folger fellowships, an ATLAS grant, and an NEH fellowship. In 2002-3 she was a Kluge fellow in the Library of Congress.

In June 2007, Dr. Coldiron presented a lecture at the Sorbonne (Fac VII) on the early reception of Shakespeare in France. She was selected to participate in a five-week National Endowment for the Humanities seminar on the history of the book (1450-1700). Participants studied early literary texts in their original and early-archival settings, beginning at the Plantin Press in Antwerp, Belgium, and ending at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University. Dr. Coldiron's Fall courses, ENL 4220 and ENL 5227, will include some of her research from this experience.

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