Eric MacPhail
Professor of French
Director of Undergraduate Studies, French
Office: Ballantine Hall 616
Office phone: 855-8948
macphai
indiana.edu
Research Areas
Renaissance literature, humanism, rhetoric
Education
- PhD, Comparative Literature, Princeton University, 1988
- BA, Comparative Literature, University of California-Berkeley, 1983
Background
I teach graduate courses for French and Italian, Renaissance Studies, and Comparative Literature. My current research project is The Sophistic Renaissance or the reception and influence of the ancient Greek sophists in the European Renaissance.
Selected Publications
Books
- The Voyage to Rome in French Renaissance Literature. Stanford French and Italian Studies. (Anma Libri, 1990)
- The Sophistic Renaissance. Collection Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance (Geneva: Droz, 2011)
Articles
- "The Turpin Method in Comparative Context," Italica 84 (2007) 521-528
- "Erasmus the Sophist," Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 26 (2006) 71-89
- "Optimus agricola: Nature and Culture in Renaissance Prose Theory," Prose Studies 28 (2006) 184-196
- "From Caesar to Augustus: A Note on Rabelais' Revisions to Pantagruel," Etudes Rabelaisiennes 44 (2006) 7-11
- "Synopsis and Scrutiny: A Pictorial Classification of Renaissance Literary Forms," Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 51 (2003-04) 59-68
- "The Mosaic of Speech: A Classical Topos in Renaissance Aesthetics," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 66 (2003) 249-63
- "'Allegare i Romani': Anachronism and Exemplarity in the Renaissance" Storiografia 6 (2002) 171-179
Courses
- Advanced Grammer
- French Renaissance Poetry
- Conversational French
- The French Renaissance
- Reading and Expression in French
- French Renaissance Prose
- Erasmus in Europe
Honors, Fellowships, and Awards
- Andrew Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities
- American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
