C.V.
| Department of French and Italian University of Texas at Austin Rainey Hall 3.114B Austin, TX 78712 Tel. (512) 471-7780 Fax (512) 471-8492 |
Education
Princeton University
Ph.D., Romance Languages and Literatures, January 1993
Université de Paris-Sorbonne
Maîtrise ès lettres modernes, mention très bien, June 1985
Brown University
A.B. in comparative literature with honors, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, June 1982
Academic experience
University of Texas at Austin
Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Women’s and
and Gender Studies Affiliate, 2001-present
Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature, 1993-2001
Grants and Honors
| 2007-8 | Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship Dean's Fellowship Renaissance Society of America Research Grant for Senior Scholars Silver Award for Web-Based and Multimedia Learning, Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program, for Lyre entre les lignes / Reading Between the Lines |
| 2005 | UT Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow |
| 2002 | Sabbatical Fellowship, American Philosophical Society Faculty Research Assignment, Univ. of Texas at Austin Visiting Scholar, Columbia University and New York University |
| 2001 | Marandon Fellowship (6 months), Society of American Professors of French. |
| 2000 | Summer Research Assignment, Univ. of Texas at Austin |
| 1996-97 | Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Fellowship, U.S. Information
Agency. Faculty Research Assignment, Univ. of Texas at Austin. |
| 1994 | Summer Research Assignment, Univ. of Texas at Austin. |
| 1991 | Whiting Foundation fellowship in the Humanities. |
| 1990 | French government dissertation fellowship. |
Publications
Books
Les Lettres romaines de Du Bellay: Les Regrets et la tradition épistolaire. Montreal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2001. 304 pp.
La Poésie au miroir: imitation et conscience de soi dans la poésie latine de la Pléiade. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur. 232 pp. 1995.
Articles
"Homer, La Boétie, Montaigne, and the Question of Sovereignty," “Esprit généreux, esprit pantagruélicque”: Essays by His Students In Honor of François Rigolot. Eds. Zahi Zalloua and Reinier Leushuis (Geneva: Droz, 2008). 259-277.
“Garnier’s La Troade between Homeric Fiction and French History: the Question of Moral Authority.” Romance Notes 46.3 (2006). 331-39.“Men are from Mars: Jean de Sponde’s Homeric Heroes and Vision of Just French Leaders.” Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century France. Eds. Philip Ford and Paul White (Cambridge: Cambridge French Colloquia, 2006). 167-179.
“What’s in a Name ? Biography vs. Wordplay in Du Bellay’s Regrets.” Early Modern France 9 (2004). 99-109.
“A Source of Du Bellay’s Most Famous Sonnet: ‘Heureux qui comme Ulysse’.” Romance Notes 42.3 (2002). 371-5.
" 'Qui a païs n'a que faire de patrie': Joachim Du Bellay's resistance to a French identity." Romanic Review 91.4 (2000). 375-95.
"Le poète enchaîné: libertinage et licence poétique chez Jean Second et Joachim Du Bellay." Cahiers de l'humanisme 1 (2000). 185-95.
"Letters from Home: The Epistolary Aspects of Joachim Du Bellay's Regrets." Renaissance Quarterly 52.1 (1999). 140-79.
"The Reflection of the Other in One's Own Mirror: The Idea of the Portrait in Renaissance imitatio," Romance Notes 36.2 (1996). 191-9.
"Salammbô, Polybe et la rhétorique de la violence." Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France 6 (1995). 974-88.
"Ronsard the poet, Belleau the Translator: The Difficulties of Writing in the Laureate's Shadow," in Translation and the transmission of culture between 1300 and 1600. Eds. Kenneth Lloyd-Jones and Jeanette Beer. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 1995. 175-226.
"The Genealogy of Poetry According to Ronsard and Julius Cesar Scaliger," Humanistica Lovaniensia 43 (1994). 304-318.
Work in Progress
Book length project on political uses of Homer in Renaissance France
Reviews
Christiane Deloince-Louette. Sponde, Commentateur d'Homère. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2001. In Sixteenth Century Journal 35.1 (Spring 2004): 220-22.
David Slavitt, trans. The Latin Odes of Jean Dorat. Washington: Orchises, 2000. In Neo-Latin News 50.1-2 (2002) 149-51.
John O'Brien. Anacreon redivivus: A Study of Anacreontic Translation in Mid-Sixteenth Century France. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan, 1995. In Allegorica 18 (1997). 105-7.
George Hugo Tucker. The Poet’s Odyssey: Joachim Du Bellay and the Antiquitez de Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. In Early Modern France 2 (1993). 171-4.
Web Sites
"Reading
Between the Lines" (Summer 2007)
"La Muse Renaissante" (Fall 2000)
"Introduction to Renaissance French Culture" (Fall 1995)
Papers presented
"The Place of Commonplace in Joachim Du Bellay’s Regrets," Renaissance Society of American Annual Meeting, Miami, March 2007
"Homer, La Boétie, Montaigne, and the Duty to Obey," 'Esprit genereux, esprit pantegruelicque' conference, Princeton University, October 2005.
"Just Like Troy? Homer in Renaissance France," invited paper given before University of Texas Classics Department, September 2005.
"Garnier's La Troade between Homeric Fiction and French History: The Question of Moral Authority." Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Cambridge (UK), April 2005.
"Anne Dacier’s Homer and the Transmission of Family Values." Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting, Paris, France, July 2004.
"Political Philology: Homeric Commentary and Political Theory in Renaissance France." Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, March 2004.
"Men are from Mars: Jean de Sponde's Homeric Heroes and Vision of Optimal French Leaders." Cambridge French Colloquia, Cambridge, England, July 2003.
" 'Qui a païs n'a que faire de patrie' : Joachim Du Bellay's Ambiguous Rhetoric Concerning French Identity." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, October 2001.
"La Muse renaissante : an interactive web site for practicing the analysis of French Renaissance verse." Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA. Los Angeles, February 2000.
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington: "Le tout 'dernier du troupeau'? Magny à l'ombre de Du Bellay dans les Souspirs." April 1998.
Colloquium at École Normale Supérieure, Paris on La Poétique de Jean Second et son influence au XVIe siècle: "Le poète enchaîné: mépris du mariage et liberté poétique chez Jean Second et Joachim Du Bellay." February 1998.
Texas Medieval Association, San Antonio: "Letters to Whom? Joachim Du Bellay and the Epistolary Tradition." September 1995.
Renaissance Society of America annual convention, New York: "Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the poetics/ethics of theft". April 1995.
Renaissance Society of America annual meeting, Dallas: "The reflection of the other in one's own mirror: the idea of the portrait in Renaissance imitatio." April 1994.
6th annual Comparative Literature Symposium, Texas Tech University: "Being in Love with Love Poetry: Joachim Du Bellay and his Amores." April 1993.
MLA annual convention, New York: "The Genealogy of Poetry According to Ronsard and Julius Caesar Scaliger." December 1992.
Professional affiliations
UT Comparative Literature Program
UT Classics Dept. Affiliate Faculty
Renaissance Society of America
Modern Language Association of America
Société française des seizièmistes