Lukas Ovrom

Lukas Ovrom studied at Reed College in Portland, Ore., as an undergraduate and completed a concurrent Ph.D. in French and medieval studies at UC, Berkeley. Prior to coming to Hamilton, Ovrom taught in the Department of French and Italian at Emory University. Broadly speaking, his research focuses on medieval French literature and culture, with an emphasis on Old French narrative and manuscript studies. In his publications, he has explored topics related to the Arthurian prose romances of the thirteenth century (the Lancelot-Grail Cycle), the history of the French language, and symbolism and narrative structure in Chrétien de Troyes’s Le Chevalier au Lion (Yvain). 

Distinctions

• Mellon-Berkeley Fellow, UC, Berkeley, 2015-2020
• Fulbright Fellow, Université Rennes II - Haute Bretagne (France), 2014-2015

Selected Publications

• Review of Géraldine Toniutti, Les derniers vers du roman arthurien : Trajectoire d’un genre, anachronisme d’une forme (Geneva: Droz, 2021), Speculum 98.2 (April 2023): 648-49.
• “Lion-Keu-Coupé: A Missing Link in Yvain or Le Chevalier au Lion.” New Medieval Literatures 20 (2020): 1-45. 
• “Lancelot innocenté? Étude sur un témoin tardif de La Mort le roi Artu (MS. BnF, FR. 120).” Romania 134.2 (2016): 261-93. 

Appointed to the Faculty

Educational Background

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Reed College