Matthieu Boyd

Biography

I am immediate past president of the International Marie de France Society, and have served on the executive or advisory boards of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society, and the MLA's Discussion Group on Celtic Languages and Literatures. I am general editor, with K. Sarah-Jane Murray, of a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded team translation of the Ovide moralisé (Moralized Ovid), an anonymous fourteenth-century French poem that tries to show - in no less than 72,000 lines! - how the Greco-Roman myths of Ovid's Metamorphoses are secretly compatible with Christian truth. It's a hugely influential piece of work that has never been translated into any modern language, until now.

Research Interest

I'm also the general editor of the Celtic Publications Series at Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. If you are looking to place a book on a Celtic topic, I'd love to hear about it.