Melusine's Footprint ― Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth

Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth offers nineteen new critical essays from an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examining the cultural, literary, and mythical inheritance of the legendary half-fairy, half-serpent Melusine.

Misty Urban (Ph.D., Cornell University, 2008) coordinates the Writing Center at Muscatine Community College. She is the author of Monstrous Women in Middle English Romance (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2010).Deva F. Kemmis (Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2012) is an instructor of German language and culture at the Goethe-Institut in Washington, DC. Her publications include an essay on self-forgiveness in the Nibelungenlied and a forthcoming article in the Yearbook of the Society for Medieval German Studies.Melissa Ridley Elmes (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2016) is Assistant Professor of English at Lindenwood University. She has essays published or forthcoming on the Arthurian legend, Chaucer, teaching medieval literature, medievalism, the Robin Hood legend, and violence at the feast in medieval texts.