Marion Frances Chevalier (January 21, 1902 – February 17, 1990) was a philologist

Philology

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

 best known for her discovery in the Bibliothèque d'Orléans of The Adventures and Marriage of Panurge, a play by Pousset de Montauban that had remained unknown for 250 years and was the first drama derived from the works of Rabelais. Her analysis of this play formed the basis of her Ph.D. thesis, in 1933, from Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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, under the supervision of Henry Carrington Lancaster. She is the namesake of a professorship in French and Comparative Literature

Comparative literature

Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups...

 at the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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, currently held by Peggy Kamuf

Peggy Kamuf

Peggy Kamuf is the Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is one of the primary English translators of the works of Jacques Derrida...

. A photograph of her can be found in the Johns Hopkins University Historical Photograph Collection.