Denyse Delcourt is a writer and a medievalist. She is the author of two books, L'Ethique du changement dans le roman français du Moyen Age (Geneva: Droz, 1990) and Gabrielle au bois dormant (Montréal: Trois, 2001), a novel. She is currently working on her second novel. She has published articles on French medieval romances in Le Moyen Français, The Romanic Review, Medieavalia & Humanistica, Medieovo Romanzo, and MLN, among others. She has been teaching at the University of Washington since 1990. Other teaching experiences include Queens (Canada), Emory, Northwestern and Duke universities. Her teaching interests are Old French language and literature, contemporary Québécois literature and French fairy tales.