Ardis Butterfield | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge University of Bristol |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Musicology |
| Institutions | Yale University |
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]
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]
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]