Nancy Vine Durling received a BA from the University of Texas, Austin (Plan II and French) and MA and PhD degrees from Princeton University (Romance Languages and Literatures). She has taught French and Comparative Literature at Princeton, UC Santa Cruz, Florida Atlantic University, the University of Oregon (Eugene), and UC Berkeley. Her primary areas of research are codicology, medieval spirituality, and 12th-14th-century vernacular literature, with a special focus on the medieval wager tale tradition. With Patricia Terry she has translated Jean Renart's Guillaume de Dole and reimagined the Old French story of the Grail. Her most recent translations are Feliciano Antiquario's 15th-century Italian wager tale, Justa Victoria, and a collection of 13th-century French wager tales, forthcoming from McFarland Publishing. 

You may reach her at vinedurling@gmail.com