The professorship honors JAMES M. BEALL. (Folio from Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 819, to appear in Dr. Nichols' forthcoming book Voices in the Text: Songs and Pictures of the Troubadours)
STEPHEN G. NICHOLS, the James M. Beall Professor of French, and chair of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, is a scholar of medieval literature, art, and history. In 1984, his book Romanesque Signs: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography received the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize. In 1999, the Minister of Culture of the French government named him a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres. The Centre Louis Marin, an inter-departmental institute he co-founded at Hopkins, has been recognized by the French government as a "center of excellence." He is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and a Senior Fellow and former director of the School of Criticism and Theory (Cornell University), which he also directs. Dr. Nichols came to Hopkins in 1992.
The professorship honors JAMES M. BEALL. (Folio from Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 819, to appear in Dr. Nichols' forthcoming book Voices in the Text: Songs and Pictures of the Troubadours) 
STEPHEN G. NICHOLS, the James M. Beall Professor of French, and chair of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, is a scholar of medieval literature, art, and history. In 1984, his book Romanesque Signs: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography received the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize. In 1999, the Minister of Culture of the French government named him a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres. The Centre Louis Marin, an inter-departmental institute he co-founded at Hopkins, has been recognized by the French government as a "center of excellence." He is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and a Senior Fellow and former director of the School of Criticism and Theory (Cornell University), which he also directs. Dr. Nichols came to Hopkins in 1992.