Sharon Kinoshita is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).Her work is primarily focused in Medieval Mediterranean Studies. She is co-Director of the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies as well as the University of California Multicampus Research Project Initiative in Mediterranean Studies (http://mediterraneanseminar.org). Research areas:Old French LiteratureThe Medieval Culture of EmpireVernacular French representationsMedieval Mediterranean LiteratureChretien de TroyesMarie de FranceMarco Polo
