Mary Baine Campbell

Mary Baine Campbell is a professor at Brandeis University, in the Department of English and American Literature, where she teaches medieval and Renaissance literatures, poetry, and women's studies. Her books include The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600 (1988), The World, the Flesh, and Angels (poetry, 1989), "'Are Sin, Disease and Death Real?'" (chapbook, 1993) and Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe (1999), as well as a new collection of poetry, Trouble, which has not yet found a publisher. During the summer of 2000, Campbell made a libretto for a new opera by Martin Brody, based on Marie de France's lai about a werewolf and his philandering wife, the Bisclavret.