Ardis Butterfield is a scholar of medieval music and literature. She is the Marie Borroff Professor of English, and Professor of Music and French at Yale University United States.[1]

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Ardis Butterfield
Academic background
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
University of Bristol
Academic work
DisciplineMusicology
InstitutionsYale University
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Education

Butterfield read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, followed by a master's degree in medieval literature at the University of Bristol, both in England, after which she returned to Trinity College to complete a PhD.[2] Her PhD was entitled 'Interpolated lyric in medieval narrative poetry' (1988).[3]

Career

In 2009, Butterfield co-founded the Medieval Song Network, a research group, in London, England, UK.[4][5]

In 2012, Butterfield became a professor of English at Yale University.[4] In 2018, Butterfield became a senior research fellow at University of Cambridge.[6] In 2018, Butterfield had been appointed as the Marie Borroff Professor of English at Yale University.[4][7] Butterfield is leading a team to develop a Digital Archive of Medieval Song.[4]

Awards

  • R.H. Gapper Prize [7]

Bibliography

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