John Ford

Littérature anglaise médiévale, littérature anglaise de la renaissance (Shakespeare, etc.), philologie anglaise et linguistique diachronique ; phonétique ; civilisation britannique (Anglo-Saxons, Normands et Plantagenets), littérature américaine (XXe siècle) ; poésie en anglais et littérature en vers.

Littérature anglaise médiévale, philologie, littérature en vers, oralité en littérature, sexualité et genres (‘gender and genre’), littérature et culture populaire.

• Doctorat (2001) : « From Poésie to Poetry: Remaniement and Medieval Techniques of French-to-English Translation of Verse Romance », University of Glasgow, dir. Prof. Jeremy J. Smith (University of Glasgow). Jury : Prof. Graham Caie (University of Glasgow), Thomas G. Duncan (St. Andrews University).
• Maître de Conférences : 2005-Présent : MCF à INU Champollion, Albi.

• FORD, John (ed.) Anglo-Norman Amys e Amilioun: The Text of MS Karlsruhe 345, Codex Durlac 38 in Parallel with MS London Royal 12.C.XII. Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. Medium Aevum Monograph (new series) XXVII (2011). 

• “Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: Þo or Þei Reconsidered.” Notes and Queries (2023): gjad089.
• “Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: Þo or Þei.” Notes and Queries 70.3 (2023): 135–137.
• “Birds of a Feather: Gay Uncle Jack and Queer Cousin Francis in To Kill a Mockingbird.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews (2022): DOI: 10.1080/0895769X.2021.1980716.
• “Ignoring Crecy, Forgoing Poitiers and Adding to Agincourt: (For)getting the Battles Right in the Record.” Shakespeare en devenir 16: 'Views from and of the Renaissance' 'Historicizing events: facts or fiction' (2022): DOI: https://shakespeare.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2667.
• Ford, John and Sarali Gintsburg. Introduction. Transitional Texts: Drifting between the Oral and the Written. Ed. Sarali Gintsburg, John C. Ford and Asier Barandiaran Amarika. RILCE: Revista de filología hispánica, Número extraordinario monográfico 36.4 (Dec., 2020): 1275–1323. DOI: 10.15581/008.36.4.1239-50.
•  “Inverse Relationship of Orally-Based Noetic Processing and Skeuomorphic Formulaicity in the Middle English ‘Matter of England’ Verse Romances.” Transitional Texts: Drifting between the Oral and the Written. Ed. Sarali Gintsburg, John C. Ford and Asier Barandiaran Amarika. RILCE: Revista de filología hispánica, Número extraordinario monográfico 36.4 (Dec., 2020): 1275–1323. DOI: 10.15581/008.36.4.1275-323.
• “Land Tenure in The Tale of Gamelyn.” Medium Ævum 89.1 (2020): 23–49. 
• “Two or III Feet Apart: Oral Recitation, Roman Numerals, and Metrical Regularity in Capystranus.” Neophilologus 102 (2018).
• “Same Old New South? Stone Mountain Park and the Theme of Pride over Prejudice.” Les Cahiers de FRAMESPA, Special Issue: Staging American Dreams. 2017.
• Review Essay: Formulaicity in Jbala Poetry. By S. Y. Gintsburg. (Tilburg: Prisma Print, 2014).  Sociolinguisic Studies 10.1-2 (April, 2016). 
• “Give or Take – a Reinterpretation of Line 800 of King Horn.”  The Mediaeval Journal 5.1 (2015): 35-54.
• “Evolution and Devolution: An Examination of the Historical Development of Scottish English.” La Tribune Internationale des Langues Viviantes 36. (2004): 12-23.
• “Metatextual Evidence of a Manuscript Relation Based on Correlation of Rubrication and Decorated Capitals in a Translated Medieval Text.” PECIA : Ressources en médiévistique 4 (2004): 1-28.
• “Merry Married Brothers: Wedded Friendship, Lovers’ Language and Male Matrimonials in Two Middle English Romances.” Medieval Forum 3 (2003). 10 pages: 
• “There’s Something Amis(s) with your New Ami: Translation and Adaptation in the Middle English Version of Amis and Amiloun.” Paroles et silences, Publication de l’Association des Médiévistes-Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur, HS 10 (2003): 95-118.
• “Towards a New Understanding of Formulae: Prototypes and the Mental Template.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 103.2 (2002): 205-226.
• “Contrasting the Identical: Differentiation of the ‘Indistinguishable’ Characters of Amis and Amiloun.” Neophilologus 86 (2002): 311-323.

• “Travel in the Middle English Matter of England Romances, and the Changing Significations of Horses and Horsemanship.” In Horses Across the Medieval World. Eds. Anastasija Ropa and Timothy Dawson. Leiden: Brill (2022): 79-111.
• “‘Once More into the Breach!’: Allusions to Agincourt and the Medieval Past in Cross-Channel Political Reporting of Brexit.” In Politics and Medievalism (Studies) II. Studies in Medievalism Series 30. Ed. Karl Fugelso. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer (2021): 55–73.
• ‘Speaking of Reading and Reading the Evidence: Allusions to Literacy in the Oral Tradition of the Middle English Verse Romances,’ Chapter 1 of The History of Reading, Vol.1: International Perspectives, c.1500-1900. Eds. W.R. Owens and Shafquat Towheed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers (2011): 15-31.
• “In Romance as We Read and as We Hear in Geste: Written Orality in the Medieval ‘Short Story’: the Verse Romances of the 13th and 14th Centuries.” Journal of the Short Story in English, Special Issue 47. (2006): 29-48.

• Solicited Review: Mockingbird Grows Up: Re-Reading Harper Lee since Watchman, eds. Cheli Reutter and Jonathan S. Cullick (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2020), The ALH (American Literary History) Online Review Series 26,1 (Winter 2021).
• Review: Trinity Apocalypse. Ed. Ian Short (Oxford: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2016). Speculum 93, 3 (2018).
• Review: Medieval Hackers. By Kathleen E. Kennedy. (punctum books, 2015). The Medieval Review (15 September 2015).
• Review: Les Renaissances 1453-1559. By Philippe Hamon. Histoire de France 5. Ed. Joël Cornette. (Paris: Belin, 2009). The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 43, 1 (2012): 161-62. 
• Review: Les Guerres de Religion 1559-1629. By Nicolas Le Roux. Histoire de France 4. Ed. Joël Cornette. (Paris: Belin, 2009). The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies 42, 4 (2011): 1132-33.
• Review: Idleness Working, the Discourse of Love’s Labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower. By Gregory M. Sadlek (Washington: CUA Press, 2004). The Medieval Review (2004).