The board of the AMAES

President

Colette Stevanovitch (2023-2026)

Professor at the University of Lorraine. She has published several books and numerous articles on Old English and Middle English poetry and on the history of the English language. She is coordinating a project to translate Middle English romances.

Vice-president

Elise Louviot (2023-2026)

Lecturer at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne. She is a specialist of Old English, Old Saxon and Norse languages and literature. She has published numerous articles, including 'Grief, Resurrection & Renewal: geniwad in Old English Verse', English Studies (2021).

Vice-president

Florence Bourgne (2024-2027)

Professor at the Sorbonne University, she is also a translator from French into English. She is currently supervising a number of theses in medieval literature.

Secretary

Agnès Blandeau (2024-2025)

Lecturer in English at the University of Nantes, she specializes in medieval English literature. She is AMAES's secretary in charge of publications.

Secretary

Olivier Simonin (2024-2027)

A lecturer in English linguistics at the University of Perpignan, Olivier Simonin is AMAES's secretary. He has recently published a new translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Treasurer

Claire Vial (2022-2025)

Claire Vial is a senior lecturer in English literature and translation at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. She is a specialist in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English literature, in particular the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate and Thomas Malory, the romances Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Richard Coer de Lyon, the Middle English Breton lais, medieval theatre and late medieval lyrics. She has also contributed to the French translation of several Middle English romances and has a keen interest in medievalism.