Daisy Delogu (email, website) is an associate professor of French at the University of Chicago. Her scholarship focuses on the political literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as well as on late medieval lyric works. She has published articles on the works of Jean Froissart, Jean d'Arras, Philippe de Mézières, Christine de Pizan, Alain Chartier, and Antoine de la Sale, and a book, Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign: The Rise of the French Vernacular Royal Biography (2008). She is currently at work on a new book project, provisionally entitled "Dame France Gives Birth to a Nation: Rethinking Constructions of Political Authority in Late Medieval France."