research

Articles and Book Chapters (forthcoming)

• “Prophetic Architecture: Agrippa d’Aubigné in Paris” in: Renaissance Futures, volume edited by Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth, with opening chapter by Peter Burke (London: Routledge, 2009).
• "De sexe incertain: Masculin, Féminin de Godard." in: French Forum.
• “Walking East in the Renaissance” in: French Global: A New History of French Literature, volume edited by Christie McDonald and Susan Suleiman, forthcoming with Columbia University Press (New York: Columbia University Pres).
• “Montaigne's Chiastic Self-Regulation: Arguing Impotence and Suicide," in: Boris Wiseman, éd., Chiasmus in the Drama of Life.
• “De l’anti-nouda : écriture analogique chez Cartier et Rabelais” in : Actes du Colloque CTHS.
• “Typefaces and Title Pages: Archives in Undergraduate Courses” forthcoming in: Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives, edited by Ian Moulton and Heidi Brayman Hackel for MLA series on Teaching World Literature.

Book Reviews

• "D’Encre et de poussière. L’écriture du pèlerinage à l’épreuve de l’intimité du manuscrit. Anne-Sophie Germain-De Franceschi." Sollicited review article for the Revue de l’histoire des religions (Collège de France).
• "Aksan, Virginia H. and Daniel Goffman, eds. The Early Modern
  Ottomans: Remapping the Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 363 pp" Book review in Sixteenth Century Journal.s
• "Shakespeare et l'architecture: Nouvelles inventions pour bien bâtir et bien jouer. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2008. 560 pp." Book review in Sixteenth Century Journal.
• “La représentation de Jérusalem et de la Terre sainte dans les récits de pèlerins européens au XVIe siècle, edited by Jean-Luc Nardone. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2007” review in:Sixteenth Century Journal.
• Agrippa d’Aubigné ou Les Misères du Prophète. Junod, Samuel. Geneva: Droz, 2008.” Book review in Sixteenth Century Journal.
• “De Troie à Ithaque. Réception des épopées homériques à la renaissance. Geneva : Droz, 2007” Review in Sixteenth Century Journal.
• “Nikki Shepardson. Burning Zeal. The Rhetoric of Martyrdom and the Protestant Community in Reformation France, 1520-1570” Review in: Sixteenth Century Journal 39:4, Winter 2008, pp. 1183-84.
• “Marcellin Richard. La passion de saint André, édition critique suivie d'une étude linguistique comparée. Ed. trans. Jean Sibille.” Book review in: Renaissance Quarterly 61:1, Spring 2008, pp. 184-85.

Papers, Lectures, Panels

• "The Book and the Castle: Etienne Dolet’s epic for Francis 1st and the Esthetics of Fontainebleau." Invited paper at RSA meeting in Venice on the panel "French Literature 1", April 8-10, 2010.
• "Prédicateurs en guerre." Chair of panel organized by Philip Benedict (Université de Genève) at the RSA meeting in Venice , April 8-10, 2010.
• "Englishing the French Renaissance." Panel organized and chaired at MLA, featuring Timothy Tomasik, Dora Polachek, and Kelly Peebles, Philadelphia , 27-30 December 2009.
• "Sex in Saint-Tropez , or Why Paris is Peripheral." Paper on panel " Paris' Rivals in 20th Century Literature and Film" at MLA, Philadelphia , 27-30 December 2009.
• "From Chronicle to Epic--and Back: Etienne Dolet's Story of Francis 1st". Paper at journée d’étude “Romancing the Text” on Renaissance Translation at Barnard College , December 4, 2009.
• "From Marriage to Massacre: The Louvre in 1572". Paper given at the Columbia Renaissance Seminar, November 10, 2009.
• "From Notre-Dame to Bonnivet: An Architectual Reading of Rabelais' Gargantua." Invited lecture and class discussion at Harvard University , October 8. 2009.
• "Turning Defeat into Nation Building: Etienne Dolet's Epic Stories About Francis 1st." at conference on Storytelling at Montclair State University , October 1-3, 2009.
• “‘ Celle cité aperceue’: Digulleville and Allegorical Cartography.” Paper given on panel “New Approaches to Guillaume de Digulleville” organized by Stephanie A. V. G. Kamath at Kalamazoo , May 7-10, 2009.
• Presider of panel “Letters of Love and Treachery in the Heptaméron” at Kalamazoo , May 7-10, 2009.
• “Peut-on faire parler Jésus ? Lecture du Dialogue du Crucifix et du Pèlerin (1486) de Guillaume Alexis.” Invited paper presented at the journée d’étude on on ‘Le « Je » sous le regard de Dieu’ at the Université d’Amiens, 5-6 May 2009.
• Co-organizer of panel “Rabelais' Soldiers” with Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller, guest chaired by Professor Jean-Claude Carron, at RSA, UCLA and Getty Museum, March 19-21 2009.
• “Clymène’s Letter and Hyante’s Oral History in Ronsard’sFranciade.” Paper given on panel “Epistles and Letters in French Renaissance Literature” co-organized with Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller at RSA, UCLA and Getty Museum , March 19-21 2009.
• Chair of panel “Illuminating Time” at Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference, 6 December 2008.
• “De l’anti-nouda : écriture analogique chez Cartier et Rabelais.” Invited paper given as part of a meeting on the subject of “Rencontres, transferts culturels et métissage dans les récits de voyage en Amérique du Nord, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles” at the 400th conference of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (France) in Québec, Canada, June 2-8, 2008. Organizers : Catherine Briand (Paris IV), Laurier Turgeon (Université Laval), Thierry Claerr (Ministère de la culture, Paris).
• “House Arrest Away from Home: Greffin Affagart’s Relation de Terre Sainte.” Paper given on panel titled Dialogues en déplacement at RSA ( Chicago, IL ), April 3-5, 2008. Organizer: Ullrich Langer. Chair: Tom Conley.
• Moderator of panel “The Memory of the Troubles (The French Wars of Religion)” at RSA ( Chicago, IL ), April 3-5, 2008. Organizer: Antonia Szabari.
• “No Fair at the Tuileries: Parisian Architecture according to Agrippa d’Aubigné.” Invited lecture at Augustana College, Rock Island, IL . January 31, 2008.
• Organizer and chair of panel “French and British Appropriations of Virgil in the Early Modern: A Question of National Identity” at MLA ( Chicago, IL ), December 27-30, 2007.
• “The Devil at the Louvre: the Tuileries in d’Aubigné’s Tragiques.” Paper given on panel titled French National Space in Focus: The Louvre at the Intersection of Art and Politics at MLA ( Chicago, IL ), December 27-30, 2007. Organizer and chair: Patrick Bray.
• “Calvinist Architecture and Renaissance Epic.” One hour lecture given at the Renaissance Seminar at the Humanities Center, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), December 6, 2007.
• “Renaissance Border Walking: Christians and Muslims.” Paper given at Global French conference, Harvard University ( Cambridge, MA ). December 6-8 2007.
• “National Identity and Ronsardian Epic.” Paper given at RSA on panel titled “Renaissance Epic: Old Models, New Contexts” ( Miami, FL ), March 22-24, 2007. Chair of panel: Bernd Renner.
• Organizer of panel “Renaissance Epic: Old Models, New Contexts” at RSA ( Miami, FL ), March 22-24, 2007.
• Moderator of panel titled “Woman and War” at the Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Barnard College ( Columbia University, New York , NY), December 2, 2006.
• “The Great Frustration: Epic and National Identity in Renaissance France .” Paper given at conference titled Seduction, Domination, and Revolt in the French Cultural Reach, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), October 6, 2006.
• “The Practice of Friendship: Montaigne as Editor and Translator.” Paper given at the Making Friendship conference at the Deutsches Haus of New York University ( New York, NY ), April 6-8, 2006.
• “Architectural Spaces: Pilgrims at the End of their Journey.” Invited lecture given at Wright State University ( Dayton, OH ), February 13, 2006.
• “‘Kondiaronk’ as Road Sign, Not National Hero: Contemporary Francophone Poetry in Québécois Poetry Reviews.” Paper given at the City University of New York Conference on Contemporary Poetry (CUNY), November 3-6, 2005.
• “Montaigne: The translator at the heart of a homosocial network.” Paper given on panel titled “The Figure of the Translator and the Metaphorics of Translation” at the ACLA conference, Pennsylvania State University ( University Park, PA ), March 11-13, 2005.
• “Devotional Practice and the Textualization of Space: A Brief Inquiry into Performative Mapping.” Paper given at the Early Modern Colloquium on “Medieval and Early Modern Spatial Epistemologies,” University of Michigan ( Ann Arbor, MI ), February 18, 2005. 
• “Early Modern Hesitation: The New World’s Newness and the Old World’s Oldness.” Paper given at conference titled Space. Cambridge University ( Cambridge, UK ), March 2003.
• “Du Bellay: The Roman Streetwalker.” Paper given at Renaissance Forum at Harvard University ( Cambridge, MA ), May 2001.
• “Imagining the Measurements of Rome . What kind of cartographer was Du Bellay?” Paper given at Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Conference at Miami University ( Miami, FL ), February 2001.