Scholarship

Degrees

PhD, French & Francophone Studies, UCLA, 2008
~ Dissertation: “The Petrarchan Lyrical Imperative: An Anthropology of the Sonnet in Renaissance France, 1536–52”
(Dir. Jean-Claude Carron)
MA, French Studies, BYU, 2005
BA, French, BYU, 2004

Academic Interests

Poetry: French Lyric Tradition
~ Clément Marot & Gallic Regional Identity
~ Renaissance Neoplatonism
Valois France in the Italian Wars (Literary History, esp. 16c Lyon & Lorraine)
Imitation Theory, Anthropology/Sociology, Rhetoric & Poetics (Pléiade Petrarchism, Kinship)
French & Italian Cinema (30s, New Wave)
Québec Studies (Jacques Poulin)

Key Publications

Translation/Critical Edition: Clément Marot's Epistles, Translated into English and set to verse with annotations and an introduction by Robert J. Hudson (ACMRS Press)

Select Articles/Book Chapters: “De style trop mince: L’humilité hyperbolique de la requête dans les épîtres lorraines de Clément Marot,” In Rhétorique de la requête (XVIe et XVIIe siècles), Eds. Ellen Delvallée and Cécile Lignereux, Paris, Garnier Frères, 2023, pp. 157–75.

“Une ville sans cloches…: Parisian Soundscapes and the Sociocultural Significance of Church Bells in Gargantua XVII–XIX,” Études rabelaisiennes LXI, 2023, pp. 99–116.

"La gauloiserie chaste de Pontus de Tyard, ou Bissy comme terroir poétique." In Pontus de Tyard et la varietas, Ed. François Rouget. Classiques Garnier, 2022.

“‘C’est mon stile qui change’: Clément Marot’s Lyrical Turn in Renée’s pays italique.” In Representing the Life and Legacy of Renée de France: from Fille de France to Dowager Duchess. Eds. Kelly Digby Peebles and Gabriella Scarlatta. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

“Plus mon Loyre Gaulois: Imitation/Renovatio and Gallic Terroir in Joachim Du Bellay’s Les Regrets.” In Early Modern Visions of Space: France and Beyond. Eds. Dorothea Heitsch and Jeremie Korta. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2021.

“Naïve douceur: Earthy Grist and Gallic Verve in the Marotic Rondeau.” In Itineraries in Renaissance French Literature. Eds. Jeff Persels, Kendall Tarte and George Hoffmann. Brill, 2017.

“Marot vs. Sagon: Heresy and the Gallic School, 1537.” In Representations of Heresy in French Art and Literature. Eds. Gabriella Scarlatta and Lidia Radi. Toronto (CRRS), 2017.

“Bucolic Influence: Marot’s Gallic Pastoral and Maurice Scève’s Arion.” Romanic Review 105.3–4 (May–Nov 2014): 253–72.

“Latently Gallic: Locus amœnus and the prurient verse of the mature Pontus de Tyard.” French Forum 39.1 (Winter 2014): 1–18.

“Nerval, Ronsard and the Orphic Lyre: Modulating Romantic Irony in Les Chimères.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 41.3–4 (2013): 220–36.