Eric MacPhail
• Professor of French
Literature
• Director of Undergraduate Studies in French
Office: Ballantine Hall
616
Office phone: 855-8948
Email: 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 awards:
- Andrew Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities
- American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
Courses recently taught:
- Advanced Grammer
- French Renaissance Poetry
- Conversational French
- The French Renaissance
- Reading and Expression in French
- French Renaissance Prose
- Erasmus in Europe
Publication highlights:
Book
The Voyage to Rome in French Renaissance Literature. Stanford French and Italian Studies. (Anma Libri, 1990).
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.
