Notes on Contributors
Tom Conley Affiliated with the Departments of Art, Film & Visual Studies and Romance Languages, Tom Conley, the Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor at Harvard University, studies cartography, literature, and film theory. He is author of à fleur de page: Voir et lire le texte de la Renaissance (2016), An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France (2011), Cartographic Cinema (2007), The Self-Made Map (2007/1996), Lââ¯Inconscient graphique (2000), and other titles. He is co-editor of the Wylie-Blackwell Companion to Jean-Luc Godard (2014) and the Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory (2018).
François Cornilliat François Cornilliat is Distinguished Professor of French at Rutgers UniversityâNew Brunswick and a specialist of 15th- and 16th-century French poetry. His publications in this field include âOr ne mens.â Couleurs de lââ¯Ãloge et du Blâme chez les âGrands Rhétoriqueursâ (Paris: Champion, 1994), and Sujet caduc, noble sujet. La poésie de la Renaissance et le choix de ses âargumentsâ (Geneva: Droz, 2009). He is currently finishing, in collaboration with the historian Laurent Vissière, a critical edition of Jean Bouchetâs Panegyric du Chevallier sans reproche, to be published by Ãditions Classiques Garnier, and has written a couple of articles on the Panegyricâs presence in Pantagruel and Gargantua.
Marie-Luce Demonet Professor of French Renaissance literature most recently at the University of Tours (2001â2016), Marie-Luce Demonet is emerita since 2016. She was Dean of the Center for Renaissance Studies in Tours (2003â2007) and director of the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities of the Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours, 2012â2014). Corresponding fellow of the British Academy, she studies the connections between literature, languages, and semiotic theories (Les Voix du signe, 1992, A plaisir, 2002, Rabelais et la question du sens (dir.), 2011). She published more than two hundred articles and essays on Rabelais, Montaigne, and various Renaissance authors. Head of the âVirtual Humanistic Librariesâ program (2002â2016), and of the âMontaigne at work projectâ (2011â2014), she develops scholarly digital scholarly editions on the Epistemon website, while preparing books about the status of fiction, language, and proof in Renaissance genres.
Diane Desrosiers James McGill Professor in Renaissance Studies, Diane Desrosiers teaches 16th Century French Literature at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). Former President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR, 2007â2009), she has published numerous texts dealing with the rhetoric of women writers of the 16th and the 17th centuries. Specialist of Rabelaisâs works, she is the author of Rabelais et lââ¯humanisme civil (Droz, 1992) and has also published, in collaboration, Rabelais et lââ¯hybridité des récits rabelaisiens (Droz, 2017). She is a Member of the Royal Society of Canada.
Mireille Huchon Mireille Huchon is professor emerita at Sorbonne University and member of the Institut universitaire de France. She edited Rabelaisâs Complete Works for the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. She is also the author of Rabelais grammairien: De lââ¯histoire du texte aux problèmes dââ¯inauthenticité (Geneva, 1981), of the most recent biography of Rabelais (Paris, 2011), of numerous articles and studies on 16th-century language and literature, and founder and director of the journal Lââ¯Année rabelaisienne.
Elsa Kammerer Elsa Kammerer teaches French Renaissance literature at the University of Lille and is currently a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She is a former student of the Ãcole Normale Supérieure, Paris and a former fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Recently, she directed the international Eurolab project, studying the dynamics of vernacular languages in Renaissance Europe, De lingua et linguis. She is currently studying the first German transposition of Rabelaisâs Gargantua, largely unknown in France, published between 1575 and 1590 by the Strasbourg scholar Johann Fischart.
Jelle Koopmans Jelle Koopmans teaches French literature at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). His research is centered around dramatic culture in the 15th and 16th centuries; in 2011 he published the 53 farces from the Recueil de Florence and is currently working, with Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès and Katell Lavéant, on an edition of the French sotties (vol. 1 published in Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2014). Recent major projects that he directed include Regional Cultures and Local Subcultures and Law and Drama. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Claude La Charité Claude La Charité is holder of the Canada Research Chair in Literary History and Printed Heritage (Tier 1). He is Professor in the Department of Letters and Humanities at the University of Quebec in Rimouski. Author of La Rhétorique épistolaire de Rabelais (Nota bene, 2003), and the forthcoming Rabelais éditeur du Pronostic. âLa voix véritable dââ¯Hippocrateâ to be published by Classiques Garnier in Paris, he is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Lââ¯Année rabelaisienne.
Nicolas Le Cadet Nicolas Le Cadet teaches French literature of the 16th century at the University Paris-Est CréteilâVal-de-Marne and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Lââ¯Année rabelaisienne. He is the author of Lââ¯Ãvangélisme fictionnel. Les Livres rabelaisiens, le Cymbalum Mundi, Lââ¯Heptaméron (1532â1552) (Classiques Garnier, 2010) and of Rabelais et le théâtre (Classiques Garnier, 2020) as well as the co-author of Rabelais, Quart Livre (Atlande, 2011) and of Gargantua (Atlande, 2017).
Frank Lestringant Frank Lestringant is Professor Emeritus at Sorbonne University. He has widely published on French literature of all periods. His main contributions to early modern literature are in the fields of travel literature and the writings and polemics of the French Wars of Religion, to which he contributed uncountable monographs, editions, book chapters, and articles (see for example Le Livre des îles: Atlas et récits insulaires de la genèse à Jules Verne, Geneva, 2002, and Le Huguenot et le sauvage, Geneva, 2004).
Daniel Ménager Daniel Ménager was Emeritus Professor of French at the University Paris-Nanterre. He published widely on all aspects of French Renaissance literature, from his influential Introduction à la vie littéraire du XVIe siècle (Paris, 1968), his important work on Ronsard and Erasmus, his monographs on Renaissance laughter, on the image of the ânight,â or on the pastoral, to his contributions to Rabelais scholarship (Rabelais en toutes lettres, Paris, 1989).
Romain Menini Romain Menini teaches at the University Gustave-Eiffel. His research focuses on French Renaissance literature and humanist philology. He is the author of two books on Rabelais: Rabelais et lââ¯intertexte platonicien (Genève, Droz, 2009) and Rabelais altérateur. âGræciser en Françoisâ (Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2014, which was awarded the Prix Georges-Dumézil 2015 by the Académie française). He is a member of the editorial bord of the journal Lââ¯Année rabelaisienne and secretary of the Revue dââ¯Histoire littéraire de la France.
Gérard Milhe Poutingon Gérard Milhe Poutingon is Professor of Language and Stylistics of the 16th century at the University of Rouen. In addition to the Works of Rabelais (see, for example, François Rabelais: Bilan critique, Paris, 1996), his research focuses mainly on the language, rhetoric, and poetics of the 16th century.
Jean-Charles Monferran Jean-Charles Monferran is professor of 16th-century French literature at Sorbonne University in Paris. His work is particularly concerned with poetry and poetics (see, for example, his edition of Joachim Du Bellay, La Deffence, et Illustration de la Langue françoyse, Geneva, 2001), with Rabelais, and with the reception of the Renaissance until today.
John Parkin John Parkin is Emeritus Professor of French Literary Studies at the University of Bristol, where he worked for 39 years teaching French literature and language. He studied in the 1960s at the universities of Oxford and Glasgow before embarking on an academic career during which he has produced books on Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre and Henry Miller, as well as investigating various aspects of the theory and practice of humor. He lives in Bristol in retirement with his wife Eileen. They have two grown-up daughters and two grandchildren.
Jeff Persels Jeff Persels teaches in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of South Carolina. He has edited, co-edited, and contributed to volumes on early modern scatology, religious polemic, theatre, and eco-criticism and authored a number of related articles.
Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou is Professor of French language of the 16th century at Sorbonne University. She specializes in Ronsard (Lââ¯Imaginaire cosmologique de Ronsard, Geneva, Droz, 2002), 16th-century poetry, and Rabelais (Panurge comme lard en pois. Paradoxe, scandale et propriété dans le Tiers Livre, Geneva, Droz, 2013). Her work focuses on the relationship between literature and representations both cosmological (Ronsard and the Pléiade) and political-religious (Erasmus, Rabelais, Calvin), issues of convenience and inconvenience, the poetics of the Pléiade dictionaries (La Porte), and the language of Rabelais and his imitators. She is a member of the reading committee of Bibliothèque dââ¯Humanisme et Renaissance and Etudes Rabelaisiennes.
Michael Randall Michael Randall is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University. He is the author of Building Resemblance: Analogical Imagery in the Early French Renaissance (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) and The Gargantuan Polity: On the Community and the individual in the French Renaissance (University of Toronto Press, 2008).
Bernd Renner Bernd Renner is Professor of French at the CUNY Graduate Center and Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Brooklyn College, where he held the Bernard H. Stern Chair in Humor Studies (2007â2009). He has published widely on early modern French and European literature and culture, most notably âDifficile est saturam non scribereâ: Lââ¯herméneutique de la satire rabelaisienne (Geneva, 2007) and the collective volume La Satire dans tous ses états: Le âmeslange satyricqueâ à la Renaissance française (Geneva, 2009). He is currently working on book-length studies on early modern satire in France and in Europe.
Paul J. Smith Paul J. Smith is Emeritus Professor of French literature at Leiden University. He has widely published on 16th-, 17th-, and 20th-century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books, literary rhetoric, intermediality, and early modern zoology. His main book publications include Voyage et écriture. Ãtude sur le Quart Livre de Rabelais (1987), Dispositio. Problematic Ordering in French Renaissance Literature (2007), as well as the edited collection Ãditer et traduire Rabelais à travers les âges (1997), and, most recently, the co-edited volumes Langues hybrides. Expérimentations linguistiques et littéraires (2019) and Early Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books (2020).
Walter Stephens Walter Stephens is Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His areas of publication are early modern Italian and French narrative, literary forgery, and the literature of witchcraft and demonology. His current project is titled It Is Written: How Writing Made Us Human.
Marie-Claire Thomine Marie-Claire Thomine is a Professor at Lille University. She publishes on French Renaissance literature and language, focusing on narrative literature, dialogue, and comic works. She is the author of books and articles about Marguerite de Navarre, Du Fail, Des Périers, Rabelais, Ronsard and, with Sabine Lardon, of a Grammaire du français de la Renaissance (Classiques Garnier, 2009) as well as a of critical edition of Du Failâs Contes et Discours dââ¯Eutrapel (Paris, 2019).