Montaigne after Theory, Theory after Montaigne

Contributors

Contributors edith benkov is professor of French and European Studies at San Diego State University and director of the French and Francophone Studies program in the Department of European Studies. She has published on a wide range of topics in medieval and early modern French studies, including Chrétien de Troyes, Louise Labé, Christine de Pizan, Michel de Montaigne, and the fabliaux. Her current research focuses on two areas: literature during the Wars of Religion and cross-dressing and sexuality in early modern Europe. She is completing a book on Soeur Anne de Marquets and the Colloque de Poissy, an initiative undertaken by Catherine of Medici in an effort to avert religious conflict in France in the 1560s. tom conley is Lowell Professor in the Departments of Romance Languages and Visual & Environmental Studies at Harvard University, and author most recently of Cartographic Cinema (2007). His translation of Marc Augé’s Casablanca: Movies and Memory is forthcoming in An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Renaissance France. 303 philippe desan is Howard L. Willett Professor of French and History of Culture at the University of Chicago. A specialist of the Renaissance, he is the author of Naissance de la méthode (1987), Humanism in Crisis: The Decline of the French Renaissance (1991), Les Commerces de Montaigne (1992), Penser l’histoire à la Renaissance (1993), Montaigne dans tous ses états (2001), L’Imaginaire économique de la Renaissance (2002), Portraits à l’essai: iconographie de Montaigne (2007), Montaigne: les formes du monde et de l’esprit (2008), among other titles. He served as general editor for the Dictionnaire de Michel de Montaigne (2004, 2007) and published a color reproduction of the Bordeaux Copy of Montaigne ’s Essais (2002). He directs the journal Montaigne Studies and is currently working on a book entitled Essais en politique (biographie politique de Montaigne). andrea frisch is associate professor of French at the University of Maryland . She is the author of The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France (2004), along with articles in such journals as Representations, Romanic Review, Discourse, Esprit créateur, and Modern Language Quarterly. She has received fellowships from the Newberry Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Humanities Center. Currently, she is writing a book about the impact of the civil wars of the sixteenth century on the literature and aesthetics of the seventeenth century in France. george hoffmann is associate professor in the department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. His book, Montaigne ’s Career (1998), won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literary Studies, awarded by the Modern Language Association in 1999. He has published “Anatomy of the Mass: Montaigne’s ‘Of cannibals,’” in Publications of the Modern Language Association 117 (2002). He is currently completing a book, The Experience of Distance, on Reformation satire. virginia krause is associate professor of French Studies at Brown University . She is the author of Idle Pursuits: Literature and ‘Oisiveté’ in the French Renaissance (2003) and is currently researching confessional practices and witchcraft. 304 / contributors reinier leushuis is associate professor of French and Italian at Florida State University. His interests include early modern dialogue, the literary treatment of marriage and friendship, literary connections between France and Italy, and the transformation of medieval genres in French Renaissance literature. He is the author Le Mariage et l’amitié courtoise dans le dialogue et le récit bref de la Renaissance (2003) and has written on the works of Petrarch, Jean de Meun, Erasmus, Castiglione, Bandello, Marguerite de Navarre, Du Bellay, Speroni, Rabelais, Labé, and Montaigne. His articles have appeared in French Forum, Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance , Renaissance Quarterly, Romanic Review, Neophilologus, and Montaigne Studies. He is currently completing a book on the Italian dialogo amoroso, 1550 to 1580, and pursuing a project on the role of the dialogical form in sixteenth-century spiritual thought and writing. eric macphail is professor of French in the French and Italian Department at Indiana University, where he has taught since 1988. His current research topic is the Sophistic Renaissance or the reception of the ancient Greek sophists in European Renaissance humanism. john o’brien is professor of French Renaissance Literature at Royal Holloway , University of London. He is the author of Anacreon redivivus (1995) and of “La chaleur de la narration”; Le cas Martin Guerre entre histoire et r...