About

Peggy McCracken is the Anna Julia Cooper Distinguished University Professor of Medieval French Literature and a Professor of French, Women's and Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Her teaching and research interests broadly focus on the intersections of medieval literature, history, and theory. Her most recent book, In the Skin of a Beast: Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France, explores relations of dominion and mastery as represented through human-animal interactions in medieval texts and images. McCracken has also studied medieval theories and practices of queenship, gendered cultural values, and their representations in romances about adulterous queens. She has collaborated on books about Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France, and has written on the saint's life of Barlaam and Josaphat based on the life of the Buddha. Currently, she is working on a book examining how medieval thinkers imagined the persistence and precarity of human being through adaptations and rewritings of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Art
• Philosophy

Selected publications

• Grief, Affect, and Embodiment in the Ovide moralisé

  2026-01-12

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• <i>White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages</i> , by Wan-Chuan Kao

  The English Historical Review · 2026-04-10

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• Editors’ Introduction

  Speculum · 2025-12-23

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• Introduction:

  University of Notre Dame Press eBooks · 2024-07-15

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• Nursing Animals and Cross-Species Intimacy

  University of Notre Dame Press eBooks · 2024-07-15 · 6 citations

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• Afterword

  Boydell UK eBooks · 2021

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• Introduction

  2021-05-21

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• Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

  Amsterdam University Press eBooks · 2021 · 3 citations

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  • Philosophy

  The scholarly networking and initial research that resulted in this collection was sponsored by the Hagiography Society.This volume shares the spirit of many insightful and collaborative research conversations that came about with the Society's support, and the commitment of these scholars to uncovering what was always already there: trans identities and experiences in medieval hagiography.The editors would like to thank Shannon Cunningham and Amsterdam

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• Afterword

  Boydell and Brewer eBooks · 2021

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  2021-05-21

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Frequent coauthors

• Sharon Kinoshita

  15 shared

• Sarah Kay

  New York University

  15 shared

• Virginie Greene

  14 shared

• Zrinka Stahuljak

  14 shared

• D Brewer

  Brewer Science (United States)

  9 shared

• Antony Rowe

  Brewer Science (United States)

  9 shared

• Caroline Palmėr

  McGill University

  9 shared

• Patricia Badir

  5 shared