Education

1979 BA summa cum laude, Canisius College, Buffalo NY (English)

1980 MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Comparative Literature)

Thesis: "Towards a History of the Inexpressibility Topos, with Special Emphasis on Dante." Director: Aldo Scaglione

1987 PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill (Comparative Literature)

Dissertation: "The Promise of Glory. Poetry and Power in the Renaissance."

Director: Aldo Scaglione

Teaching Experience

1980-1987 Teaching assistant, UNC-Chapel Hill: Beginning, intermediate and advanced French; beginning and intermediate Italian

1987-present Assistant, now Associate Professor of Romance Languages, Wake Forest University: all levels of French language, literature, and culture, particularly medieval and Renaissance French literature, French poetry; Humanities. Director of WFU program in Dijon, fall 1997, 2002, and 2007

Academic Awards

1983 Urban Tigner Holmes Award for medieval studies (UNC)

1984 French Government Fellowship

1984-1985 George Lurcy Fellowship (UNC)

1989 William C. Archie Grant (WFU)

1991 Research and Creative Activies Grant (WFU)

1993 William C. Archie Grant

1995 Reynolds Research Leave (WFU)

1999 William C. Archie Grant

2002 William C. Archie Grant

2003 William C. Archie Grant

2005-2006 Z. Smith Reynolds Research Leave

2006 William C. Archie Grant

Publications

· Books:

The Gift of Immortality. Myths of Power and Humanist Poetics (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1997)

[Co-editor:] Aldo Scaglione, Questioni linguistiche e retoriche: Collected articles (New York: Peter Lang, 1999)

[Editor, with introduction and notes:] Marsilio Ficino, Commentaire sur le Banquet de Platon, French trans. Jean de La Haye (1546) (Paris : H. Champion, 2004)

· Articles:

“The Death of Actaeon as Petrarchist Topos,” Comparative Literature Studies 28 (1991)

“Petrarca's Africa and the Poets' Dream of Glory,” Italian Culture 9 (1991)

“Budé's De Philologia and the Power of Metaphor,” Renaissance Papers (1991)

“La Queste del Saint Graal and the Aesthetics of Negative Theology,” Cincinnati Romance Review 11 (1992)

“Ronsard, Petrarca, Ennius, and Poetic Metempsychosis,” Romance Notes 32 (1992)

“Petrarca and Sade,” Italian Culture 10 (1992)

“Bovelles. Scève. Bruno. Antiperistasis,” Allegorica 14 (1993)

“D'Aubigné's Celestial Moving Pictures,” in Plaire et instruire, ed. Judy Kem (New York: Peter Lang, 1993)

“Ronsard, Polemic, and Palinode,” Mediaevalia 22 (1999) (Special issue: “Figuring Protest and Lament: Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century France”, ed. Dora Polachek)

“Du Bartas, D'Aubigné, et le triomphe militant,” in Pétrarque en Europe XIVe-XXe siècle : Dynamique d’une expansion culturelle, ed. Pierre Blanc (Paris : H. Champion, 2001)

“Idoles et statues poétiques à la Renaissance,” in Poétique de l’objet : L’objet dans la poésie française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, ed. François Rouget (Paris : H. Champion, 2001)

“Catherine, Cybele, and Ronsard’s Witness,” in High Anxiety: Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France, ed. Kathleen Perry Long (Kirksville, MO: Truman State UP, 2002)

“Diane et la disperata,” in Le mythe de Diane au XVIe siècle, ed. Marie-Dominique Legrand and Jean-Raymond Fanlo (Paris : H. Champion, 2002)

“The Capilupi, Masters of Cento,” Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Cantabrigiensis (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003)

“Guillaume Briçonnet,” Centuriae latinae: Mélanges M.-M. de La Garanderie, ed. Colette Nativel (Geneva: Droz, 2006)

“Maro mutatus in melius? The Form and Fortune of Lelio Capilupi’s In Feminas,” Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Bonnae (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006)

« Il paesaggio virgiliano et la sua fortuna parodica », forthcoming in Mediterra-noesis, ed. Roberta Morosini and Cristina Perissinotto

“Pontus de Tyard et le ficinisme tardif,” forthcoming in proceedings of conference Pontus de Tyard, errances et enracinement

· Reviews:

Review of Konrad Eisenbichler and Amilcare A. Iannucci, eds., Petrarch's Triumphs: Allegory and Spectacle, in Annali d'Italianistica 9 (1991)

Review of Diana Robin, Filelfo in Milan: Writings 1451-1477, in Annali d'Italianistica 10 (1992)

Review of Petrarch, Letters of Old Age, in Annali d'Italianistica 11 (1993)

Review of Giuseppe Mazzotta, The Worlds of Petrarch, in Annali d'Italianistica 13 (1995)

Review of Pierre de Ronsard, Oeuvres complètes, in Sixteenth Century Journal 27 (1996)

Review of Jean M. Fallon, Voice and Vision in Ronsard's Les Sonnets pour Hélène, in Sixteenth Century Journal 27 (1996)

Review of Michael Marullus, Hymnes naturels, in Sixteenth Century Journal 28 (1997)

Review of Malcolm C. Smith, Ronsard and Du Bellay versus Bèze, in Sixteenth Century Journal 28 (1997)

Review of Marie-Hélène Prat, Les Mots du corps: Un Imaginaire Lexical dans "Les Tragiques" d'Agrippa d'Aubigné, in Sixteenth Century Journal 28 (1997)

Review of Michèle Clément, Une poésie de crise: Poètes baroques et mystiques, in Sixteenth Century Journal 28 (1997)

Review of Ullrich Langer, Perfect Friendship: Studies in Literature and Moral Philosophy from Boccaccio to Corneille, in Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997)

Review of Valerius Maximus, Faits et dits mémorables: Livres I-III, in Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997)

Review of Marie-Madeleine de La Garanderie, Christianisme et lettres profanes, in Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998)

Review of Guy de Tervarent, Attributs et symboles dans l'art profane, 2^nd ed., in Sixteenth Century Journal 30 (1999)

Review of Ehsan Ahmed, The Law and the Song: Hebraic, Christian, and Pagan Revivals in Sixteenth-Century France, in Sixteenth Century Journal 30 (1999)

Review of Olivia Rosenthal, Donner à voir: Ecriture de l’image dans l’art de poésie au XVIe siècle, in Sixteenth Century Journal 31 (2000)

Review of Jean Salmon Macrin, Epithalames et Odes, in Sixteenth Century Journal 31 (2000)

Review of Agrippa d’Aubigné, Histoire universelle, vol. 10, in Sixteenth Century Journal 31 (2000)

Review of Jean Vignes, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, in Sixteenth Century Journal 31 (2000)

Review of Ullrich Langer, Vertu du discours, discours de la vertu: Littérature et philosophie morale au XVIe siècle en France, in Renaissance Quarterly 53 (2000)

Review of Jean Dorat, Mythologicum, in Renaissance et Réforme (2001)

Review of Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy, ed. J. Kraye and M.W.F. Stone, in Sixteenth Century Journal 33 (2002)

Review of F. Petrarch, Bucolicum Carmen (French translation and commentary), in Renaissance et Réforme (2002)

Review of François Rigolot, L’Erreur de la Renaissance, in Renaissance Quarterly 57 (2004)

Review of Jean-Eudes Girot, Pindare avant Ronsard, in Renaissance et Réforme (2004)

Review of Martine Furno, Une « fantaisie » sur l’antique […], in Renaissance Quarterly 57 (2004)

Review of Flaminio de Birague, Les Premières œuvres poétiques (1585), vol. 2, in Sixteenth Century Journal 36 (2005)

Presentations

"Scève and Pernette, Diana and Actaeon," at Philological Association of the Carolinas conference, March 1990

"Petrarca's Africa and the Poets' Dream of Glory," at American Association for Italian Studies conference, April 1990

"Poetic Correlation and Etienne Jodelle's Late Petrarchism," at Philological Association of the Carolinas conference, March 1991

"Budé's De Philologia and the Power of Metaphor," at Southeastern Renaissance Conference meeting, April 1991

"Petrarca and Sade," at American Association for Italian Studies conference, April 1991

"La Queste del Saint Graal and the Aesthetics of Negative Theology," at Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May 1991

"The Mystical Philology of Budé's De transitu," at Clinch Valley College Medieval and Renaissance Conference, September 1991

"Alexander at Achilles' Tomb, or the Place of Poetry in Italian Humanism," Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, October 1991

"Poliziano's Nutricia and the Tradition of Poetic Paleology," at American Association for Italian Studies conference, April 1992

"D'Aubigné's Celestial Moving Pictures," at Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May 1992

"Theory of Ekphrasis and Les Tragiques," at South Atlantic MLA meeting, November 1992

"Renaissance of the Death of Seneca," at Renaissance Society of America meeting, April 1993

"Poesia and non-poesia in Poliziano's Ambra," at American Association for Italian Studies conference, April 1993

"Creation and Decreation in Du Bartas' Sepmaine," at Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May 1993

"Du Bartas, d'Aubigné, and the Militant Triumph," at Modern Language Association meeting, December 1993

"The Politics of Synecdoche in Vindiciae contra tyrannos," at Renaissance Society of America meeting, April 1994

"Sacrifice in d'Aubigné," at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1994

"Catherine, Cybele, and Ronsard's Witnesses," at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 1994

"In the Wake of Du Bartas," at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1995

"Montaigne and Public Spectacle," at De la dignité de l'homme et de la femme colloquium, UNC-Chapel Hill, October 1995

"Du Bartas, d'Aubigné, et le triomphe militant," at Le pétrarquisme européen colloquium, Turin-Chambéry, December 1995

"Meta-landscape and the Paths of Renaissance 'Epic'," at Renaissance Society of America meeting, April 1996

"Ronsard, Palinode and Polemic," at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 1996

"Epic Disorder from Tasso to Marino," at American Association for Italian Studies conference, February 1997

"Ronsard, d'Aubigné; Myron's Cow, Perillus's Bull," at Renaissance Society of America meeting, April 1997

"Budé and the Heritage of Italian Humanism," at International Association for Neo-Latin Studies meeting, August 1997

"Henri Estienne and the Question of Parody," at Renaissance Society of America meeting, March 1998

"Sacrificial Poetics in France," at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 1998

"Repetition and Difference, or the Uses of Cento," at Renaissance Society of America meeting, March 1999

"Idoles et statues poétiques à la Renaissance," at Queen's University international colloquium on "Poétiques de l'objet," May 1999

“Epitaphs in Canzonieri,” at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 1999

“Parody and Satire, with or without laughter?” at Carolina Conference on the Romance Languages, March 2000

“The Capilupi, Masters of Cento,” at International Society for Neo-Latin Studies meeting, August 2000

“Philology and Laughter,” at Renaissance Society of America meeting, April 2001

“Diane et la disperata,” at international colloquium on “Le mythe de Diane au XVIe siècle,” May 2001

“Plato, Ficino, La Haye,” at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 2001

“Du Verdier and the Translators,” at Renaissance Society of America meeting, April 2002

“Plato after Ficino,” at Renaissance Society of America meeting, April 2003

“Maro mutatus in melius? The Form and Fortune of Lelio Capilupi’s In Feminas,” at International Association for Neo-Latin Studies meeting, August 2003

“Aubigné’s Demons,” at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 2003

“The Late Ficinism of Guy Le Fèvre de La Boderie,” at Renaissance Society of America meeting, April 2004

“On the Threshold of Guy Le Fèvre’s Philosophical Poems,” at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 2004

“Martyrology and the Cruelty of Inspiration,” at Renaissance Society of America meeting, April 2005

“Pontus de Tyard et le ficinisme tardif,” at colloquium on “Pontus de Tyard, errances et enracinement,” September 2005

“Civil War and Semantic Violence,” at Renaissance Society of America meeting, April 2006

“The Urban Scene of Defamation,” at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2006

“Martyrdom and Philology,” at meeting of International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, August 2006

Work in progress

· Books:

“Agrippa d’Aubigné, between autobiography and polemic: the epic poet of the French civil wars”

[Co-editor, with introduction and notes:] Critical edition of Antoine Du Verdier, La Bibliothèque Françoise (1585), under contract with H. Champion, Paris

· Presentation:

“Aubigné the Autobiographer and where he came from,” for Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 2006

· Review:

Flaminio de Birague, Les Premières œuvres poétiques [1585], vol. 3 for Renaissance et Réforme

University Service

French language representative (2004-2005)

Lower-division and major advising

Chair, French job committee

Library acquisitions representative (French)

Languages

French, Italian, Latin, Spanish, German, Occitan, Ancient Greek