Evelyn (Timmie) Birge Vitz is Professor of French at New York University and Affiliated Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Comparative Literature. Much of her recent work bears on performance. She teaches courses in which students perform scenes from medieval narrative. Her relevant books are Orality and Performance in Early French Romance (1999), Performing Medieval Literature (2005, with Nancy Freeman Regalado and Marilyn Lawrence), and Medieval and Early Modern Performance in the Eastern Mediterranean (2014, with Arzu Ozturkmen).