Sylvia Huot is an expert of Medieval French literature. She is the author of From Song to Book, The Romance of the Rose and its Medieval Readers, Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet, Madness in Medieval French Literature, Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest and Dreams of Lovers and Lies of Poets: Poetry, Knowledge and Desire in the Roman de la Rose. She is also the co-editor of Rethinking the Romance of the Rose.