# Virginie Greene Emerita Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (French) ![virginie](/sites/g/files/omnuum8296/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-04/greenewebshot.jpg?itok=alzX5Auv) email Virginie Greene is a Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, at Harvard University. She is a specialist of medieval literature, with strong interests in history and philosophy, and in Proust and his times. She has recently published a biography: *Un petit rouage dans la grande machine: Thomas Rodman Plummer 1862-1918*, the story of the encounter of an American and a French village during WWI. She is the author of *Logical Fictions in Medieval Literature and Philosophy* (Cambridge University Press, 2014), a study of seminal classical, medieval and modern literary and philosophical texts leading to a broader reflection about fiction as a universal human trait and a defining element of the history of Western philosophy. She has also authored *Le Sujet et la Mort dans La Mort Artu* (Nizet, 2002). She is the editor of *Towards the Author: Essays in French Medieval Literature* (Palgrave, 2006 ), and the translator in modern French of *Le Débat sur le Roman de la Rose* (Champion, 2006). She has contributed to the edition of an anthology of Proust's letters (Proust, *Lettres*, Plon: 2004). She is one of the five co-authors of *Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes* (D. S. Brewer, 2011). She has published a book of prose poems titled *Cent vues de John Harvard* (Editions de l’Attente, 2011). She currently works on various book projects focussing on encounters. - ## Department Role [Emeriti / Research Professor](/people/role/emeriti) - ## Language [French](/language/french)