Professor Emerita of French and Provençal Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques Professor Catherine M. Jones (1956-2026) received her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. A distinguished and esteemed colleague in the United States and abroad, she was named a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques for her work on Old French Epic, romance, Orientalism, and medieval French literature and law. During her career at UGA, Professor Jones received virtually every teaching award granted by the university, including a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship. As a teacher she was appreciated for her expert mentoring, her outstanding instruction, as well as her kindness and generosity. Read more about her life and career here. She authored The Noble Merchant: Problems of Genre and Lineage in Hervis de Mes (North Carolina, 1993), Philippe de Vigneulles and the Art of Prose Translation (Boydell & Brewer, 2008), and An Introduction to the "Chansons de Geste" (University Press of Florida, 2014). More recently, she co-translated An Old French Trilogy: Texts from the William of Orange Cycle (University Press of Florida, 2020) and Huon of Bordeaux (Italica Press, 2021). Her final volume—Persecuted Women: Aye of Avignon, The Duchess Parise, and Florence of Rome—is forthcoming. Recent Books: Huon of Bordeaux An Introduction to the "Chansons de Geste" An Old French Trilogy
