Marilyn Lawrence writes on literature and the performing arts in the Middle Ages. Her publications include the books Performing Medieval Literature (2005, with Evelyn Birge Vitz and Nancy Freeman Regalado) and Recognition: The Poetics of Narrative: Interdisciplinary Studies on Anagnorisis (2009, with Philip F. Kennedy). She holds a B.A. from Princeton University (in Comparative Literature, with theater and dance) and a Ph.D. (in French) from New York University, where she is Visiting Scholar in the French Department.