
Sarah-Grace Heller
Department Chair and Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies
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200H Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210
Office Hours
Spring 2025: Tuesdays 4:00-5:00, Thursdays 10:00-11:00 & by appointment
Areas of Expertise
- Medieval French literature, language, & culture
- Medieval Occitan literature, language, & culture
- Fashion theory and material culture
Education
- PhD University of Minnesota 2000
- BA Grinnell College 1993
Sarah-Grace Heller is Chair of French and Italian and Associate Professor of French, specializing in medieval French and Occitan literature, language, and material culture. Her publications include Fashion in Medieval France (Boydell, 2007), A Cultural History of Fashion in a Medieval Age (Berg, 2016), Troubadour Texts and Contexts (Boydell, 2024) and articles related to sumptuary laws, crusade literature, the Roman de la Rose, and the semiotics of culture. She is president of the Société Guilhem IX which promotes Occitan scholarship, and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Medieval Clothing and Textiles and Tenso. She has served as Director and Associate Director of Ohio State's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Podcast interview, Gone Medieval: "How to Dress in the Middle Ages"
Podcast interview, Voices of Excellence: "What was Shopping like in Medieval Paris?"
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