Sheila Delany, Professor Emerita at Simon Fraser University, obtained her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She has written many articles and books in medieval studies, especially Chaucer, and has translated two other works by Sylvain Maréchal: his satirical legendary, which appeared as Anti-saints (2012), and his novella of a cross-dressing young Parisienne, The Woman Priest (2016), both with University of Alberta Press.