Fields
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Critical/Gender Theory
Masculinities
French and Comparative Renaissance Studies
French Cultural Studies
Education & Training
- PhD, University of Michigan
Representative Publications
Théories de la littérature à la Renaissance (Garnier), edited volume, with David LaGuardia. In press.
“Montaigne, Affects, Emotions,” special issue of Montaigne Studies (2018)
Setting Plato Straight: Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016). 418 pp. Winner of the 2017 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for best book in Renaissance Studies, awarded by the Renaissance Society of America.
Symphorien Champier, The Ship of Virtuous Ladies, edition and translation of La nef des dames vertueuses, in “The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe” series.
"Transgender France," special issue of Esprit Créateur (Spring 2013).
“The Idea of France,” co-edited special issue of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (Sites). (Spring 2013).
Approaches to Teaching the Works of François Rabelais, co-edited with Floyd Gray (New York: Modern Language Association, 2011). In book series "Approaches to Teaching World Literature."
Masculinities in Theory (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2010). 236 pp.
“Entre hommes”: French and Francophone Masculinities in Theory and Culture, co-edited with Lewis Seifert (University of Delaware Press, 2008).
Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2006). 288 pp.
"French Masculinities," special issue of Esprit Créateur (Fall 2003), co-edited with Lewis Seifert.