Emeritus Professor Glynnis Cropp

Honorary Research Fellow
School of Humanities


Email: G.M.Cropp@massey.ac.nz

Other contact details
Sir Geoffrey Peren Building, Turitea

Glynnis  Cropp is now Professor Emeritus (French) and an Honorary Research Fellow within the School of Humanities, Massey University, Palmerston North.  Her research interests and publications are in medieval studies, relating particularly to Occitan courtly poetry, fourteenth- and fifteenth-century French translations of Boethius’s Consolatio Philosophiae, and the literary writing of Christine de Pizan and Eustache Deschamps.  She has published more than sixty articles and book chapters, and as many critical reviews, mainly in international publications.  Recent major publications are: Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion. Edition critique (Geneva, Droz, 2006); Böece de Confort remanié. Edition critique (London, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2011); La Voie de Povreté et de Richesse. MHRA Critical Texts, 51, 1-138. (2016). 

Emeritus Professor Cropp was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities (1987-1997) and Head of the School of Language Studies (1998-2001).  She was one of the Editors of the New Zealand Journal of French Studies, published at Massey University (1980-2010), and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Fédération des Alliances Françaises de Nouvelle-Zélande Inc.  She has received the award of Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2011) and the award of Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (2013).