Jeff Rider is Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures and Medieval Studies
at Wesleyan University. He holds a B.A. in Combined French and English Literature from
Yale University, a Diplôme d’Etudes Médiévales from the Université Catholique de Louvain
(Belgium), and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of
Chicago. His work focuses on the literature and history of northern Europe from the
eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, historiography, and medievalism (why and how
we study the Middle Ages today). He is the author, editor or translator of nine books and
has published over thirty articles, essays, or chapters in collective works. Professor
Rider has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright
Commission, the American Philosophical Society, the Rotary Foundation, and the Royal
Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.
At Wesleyan, Professor Rider has served as chair of the Romance Languages and Literatures
Department and the Medieval Studies Program, and has been the resident director of the
Wesleyan Program in Paris numerous times. He has chaired the Educational Policy
Committee, the Faculty Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, and served as Vice-Chair
of the Review and Appeals Board (personnel). He has also served on the Advisory Committee
(personnel), the Committee on Honors and the Faculty Student Affairs Committee.
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