Sarah-Grace Heller

photo of Sarah-Grace Heller, February 2022

Sarah-Grace Heller

Department Chair and Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies
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heller.64@osu.edu

200H Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210

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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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