Terrence Cullen

Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
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Terrence Cullen is a specialist of the French and Occitan Middle Ages. He is currently at work on a book manuscript, Echo’s Vengeance, on the cultural politics of listening in medieval French literature. Support for this project has been provided by the American Council of Learned Societies, NYU’s Center for the Humanities, and the Remarque Institute. His work on medieval literature and historical sound studies has appeared in French Studies, Romanic Review, New Medieval Literatures, Neophilologus, and Dix-Neuf.

At Vassar, he teaches all levels of French language, from elementary to advanced courses on grammar and translation, as well as premodern literature and culture (including, recently, “Human, Animal, and Monster in the French Middle Ages” and “Making Love in the Middle Ages: Sex, Desire, and Gender in Medieval French Literature”). With the Medieval Academy of America, he has also led an intensive summer course on Old French for graduate students.

BA, Amherst College; MPhil, University of Cambridge; PhD, New York University
At Vassar since 2023

Contact

845-437-5726
Chicago Hall
Box 603

In the Media

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Terrence Cullen, Visiting Assistant Professor, and Rupinder Kaur, Assistant Professor—both from French and Francophone Studies—received an Albertine Cinémathèque Festival Grant for Vassar’s 2025–2026 French film festival. Organized around the theme of “art and artifice,” the festival will introduce students and the community to French cinema and create opportunities for intellectual exchange.

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