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Doctorat de l'Université, Université de Paris (1962)
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
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In a university career spanning nearly 40 years, I taught most of the undergraduate French language courses in this department, as well as literature surveys, the literature of the Renaissance, and the 20th-century comic book. On the graduate level, I taught research methodology, history of the French language, and Rabelais and Montaigne. I also taught Humanities and Comparative Literature courses when opportunity offered, and once (when the department was really desperate) taught Italian 101.
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My research specialty is the French Renaissance, but like most Renaissance enthusiasts I have branched out into Neo-Latin, Italian, German, intellectual history and art history. My research topics have included comic theater, Renaissance jokes (facetiae), emblems, scatological rhetoric, Rabelais, Montaigne, numerous other 16th-century writers, and pictorial versions of the goddess Venus with her shell. Of my five major books, I prefer the two most recent, Enter Rabelais, Laughing (1998), and Humour and Humanism (2004), an anthology of my articles. I have edited French farces, Renaissance jokes, two homage volumes and one collection of conference proceedings.
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Although English by birth, I have lived contentedly in the U.S. for many years, and very happily in Nashville for the last 18 years. I much enjoyed directing French plays for the department; since my retirement I continue to do research, and also spend time in volunteer work, my church, and with my husband and grandchildren.
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For more information, please contact Elizabeth Shadbolt.
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