Arthur Kingsley
Porter Professor of Medieval Latin
Boylston G04
617-496-6062 (voicemail)
Folk & Myth office, Warren House 104
617-495-3513
Office Hours:
Tuesday, 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Thursday, 10:30am - 11:30am
Professor Ziolkowski has an
abiding interest in medieval versions of modern folktales and fairy tales.
He has published several articles on the topic: “A Fairy Tale From
Before Fairy Tales: Egbert of Liège’s ‘De puellis a lupellis
seruata’ and the Medieval Background of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’”;
“The Beast and the Beauty: The Reorientation of ‘The Donkey,’
From the Middle Ages to the Brothers Grimm”; “Vergil as Shahrazad:
How an Eastern Frame Tale was Authorized in the West”; “A Medieval
‘Little Claus and Big Claus’: A Fabliau from Before Fabliaux?”;
and “Old Wives’ Tales: Classicism and Anticlassicism from Apuleius
to Chaucer.”
Professor Ziolkowsi has chaired the Department of Comparitive Literature since 1993. He teaches Lit & Arts C-22 “European Culture in the Middle Ages.”
*Comparative Literature 280. Literary Theory and Criticism in the
Middle Ages: Seminar
Catalog Number: 2215
Latin 3m. Latin Prose Selections (Medieval)
Catalog Number: 7123
Medieval Latin 120. Wisdom and Learning
Catalog Number: 4019
Medieval Latin 150. Abelard and Heloise
Catalog Number: 3240
Prof. Ziolkowski's page at the Department of the Classics