R. Howard Bloch

R. Howard Bloch is the Sterling Professor of French and director of the Division of the Humanities at Yale University. He is the author of God's Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Jacques-Paul Migne; The Anonymous Marie De France (winner of the MLA's 2005 Scaglione Prize); Etymologies and Genealogies: A Literary Anthropology of the French Middle Ages; and Medieval French Liturature and Law. A recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, a James Russell Lowell Award, and the Medal of the Collège de France, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.