Gabrielle Spiegel

Krieger-Eisenhower Professor
Medieval history, with special interest
in historiography and linguistic analysis

The Johns Hopkins University
Department of History
2850 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218

Telephone: 410-516-5075
E-mail: spiegel@jhu.edu

Dell House 1401B

Curriculum Vitae

I am broadly interested in historiography, that is, the theory and practice of writing history, both in the Middle Ages and in the modern era. In addition to doing research on medieval historical writing, I work on the implications of postmodern critical theory for understanding contemporary historiographical practices. I am the author of The Chronicle Tradition of Saint-Denis: A Survey (1978), Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France (1993) and The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Historiography (1997), "History, Historicism and The Social Logic of the Text in the Middle Ages," Speculum 65 ( 1990): 59-86 and "History and Postmodernism," Past and Present, 135 (1992): 194-208, as well as numerous articles on medieval historiography and critical theory. I am currently working on a book on the writing of medieval history in America. I regularly teach the medieval civilization survey, as well as graduate courses on medieval historiography, medieval intellectual history, and on critical theory, in particular on The Production of History: Postmodern Perspectives on Historical Writing.

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