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  • Contributors

Dominique Brancher is a lecturer at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. A specialist in French Renaissance Literature, she is currently working on the relationship between literature, skepticism and medicine (e.g. in Montaigne) and on the reformulation of the concept of modesty in this period.

Arto Clerc works at the University of Geneva. He is currently studying narrative representations of subversion in the French seventeenth century.

Edwin M. Duval is a professor and chair of French at Yale University. He has written on a variety of French Renaissance authors, including Rabelais, Marot, Marguerite de Navarre, Scève, Montaigne, and d’Aubigné. His books include a three-volume study of form and meaning in the works of Rabelais. His current research involves the presence of the Aeneid in French Renaissance literature, and the relation between musical form, poetic structure, and logical articulation in French Renaissance lyric.

Sue W. Farquhar, associate professor of French at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, has published a number of articles on varied aspects of sixteenth-century rhetoric, ethics, and law in Montaigne’s Essays. She has just completed a book on Montaigne and is currently working on Henri III’s Palace Academy in dialogue with contemporary legal humanists writing on the margins of the academy.

Michel Jeanneret is Professor of French Literature, University of Geneva. A specialist in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of his latest books, Perpetual Motion: Transforming Shapes in the Renaissance from Da Vinci to Montaigne, was translated and published by Johns Hopkins University Press (2001).

Samuel Junod is an Assistant Professor of French at the University of Colorado at Boulder, specializing in French Renaissance Literature. He has written articles on François Rabelais, Jean de Léry, Agrippa d’Aubigné and Renaissance tragedy. He is currently writing a book on the literary figure of the prophet during the religious wars. [End Page 211]

Stephen G. Nichols, James M. Beall Professor of French and Humanities and Chair, Romance Languages, at Johns Hopkins University, specializes in medieval culture, and has most recently published Altérités du Moyen Âge (2003).

Florian Preisig is Assistant Professor at Eastern Washington University. He is the author of Clément Marot et les métamorphoses de l’auteur à l’aube de la Renaissance (Genève: Droz, 2004). His research focuses on the early modern period and the history of authorship.

Walter Stephens is the Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies and Vice-Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. He is also Director of Villa Spelman, Johns Hopkins’s Center for Italian Studies in Florence, Italy. His research and teaching concentrate on the relation of Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature to theology, philosophy, history, philology, and literary forgery. He has published Giants in Those Days: Folklore, Ancient History, and Nationalism (Nebraska, 1989); Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief (Chicago, 2002); and numerous essays on Italian authors, especially Torquato Tasso and Umberto Eco.

Antónia Szabari is an Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is currently working on a book project examining injurious language as it appears in literary texts and religious polemics tentatively entitled Less Rightly Said: Scandalous Speech in the Reformation.

Frédéric Tinguely is a Professor of French Literature at the University of Geneva and at the University of Lausanne. He is the author of a book on travel literature in the sixteenth century (L’Ecriture du Levant à la Renaissance. Enquête sur les voyageurs français dans l’Empire de Soliman le Magnifique [Geneva: Droz, 2000]) and is now directing an interdisciplinary research project on early modern relativism sponsored by the Swiss National Fund.

Jacob Vance is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University. He works on early modern French literature and intellectual history, focusing on the development of early French humanist and Christian humanist literature. [End Page 212]

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