Ardis Butterfield

Ardis Butterfield is a scholar of medieval music and literature. She is the Marie Borroff Professor of English, and Professor of Music and French at Yale University United States.

Education Butterfield read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, followed by a master's degree in medieval literature at the University of Bristol, both in England, after which she returned to Trinity College to complete a PhD. Her PhD was entitled 'Interpolated lyric in medieval narrative poetry' (1988).

Career Butterfield was a lecturer and then Professor of English at University College London. In 2009, Butterfield co-founded the Medieval Song Network, a research group, in London, England, UK.

In 2012, Butterfield became a professor of English at Yale University. In 2018, Butterfield had been appointed as the Marie Borroff Professor of English at Yale University. Butterfield is leading a team to develop a Digital Archive of Medieval Song. Poetry and Music in Medieval France (Cambridge University Press, 2003) ed. Chaucer and the City