Gary Ferguson

Publications


 

 

 

Monographs:

 

 

Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance: Homosexuality, Gender, Culture

          (Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008), x + 375 p.

 

Mirroring Belief: Marguerite de Navarre’s Devotional Poetry

          (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992), xx + 253 pp.

 

 

Critical Edition:

 

 

Anne de Marquets, Sonets spirituels (1605)

          edited by Gary Ferguson (Geneva: Droz, 1997), 426 pp.

 

 

Edited Collections:

 

 

L’Homme en tous genres : Masculinités, textes et contextes, edited by Gary Ferguson, Itinéraires. Littérature, textes, cultures (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2008), 212 p.

 

Narrative Worlds: Essays on the “Nouvelle” in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France

          edited by Gary Ferguson and David LaGuardia (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2005), x + 195 p.

 

(Re)Inventing the Past: Essays on French Early Modern Culture, Literature and Thought in Honour of Ann Moss

          edited by Gary Ferguson and Catherine Hampton, Durham Modern Languages Series (Durham: University of Durham, 2003), 331 p.

 

 

Articles and Book Chapters:

 

 

“Sixteenth-Century Religious Writing”

          in Cambridge History of French Literature, edited by William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond, and Emma Wilson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

 

“‘And now for something completely different’? Approaching Rabelais through Monty Python”

          in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Rabelais, edited by Floyd Gray and Todd W. Reeser (New York: Modern Language Association of America, forthcoming).

 

“Women’s Writing, Anne de Marquets, and the Priory of Poissy”

          in Teaching French Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, edited by Colette H. Winn (New York: Modern Language Association of America, forthcoming).

 

“Mal vivre, mal croire : l’anticléricalisme de l’Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre”

          Seizième Siècle, 6 (forthcoming).

 

“Pour un passé « queer » : Lire l’homosexualité aux débuts des temps modernes”

          in « Queer » : Ecritures de la différence ?, edited by Pierre Zoberman (Paris : L’Harmattan, 2008), pp. 117-132.

 

“Péchés capitaux et « vices italiens » : L’avarice et ses complices dans l’Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre”

          Seizième Siècle, 4 (2008), pp. 73-87.

 

“Avant-goûts : (Homo)sexualités comparées au seuil de la modernité”

          in Littérature et identités sexuelles, edited by Anne Tomiche and Pierre Zoberman, Collection Poétiques Comparatistes (Paris: Société Française de Littérature Générale et Comparée, 2007), pp. 105-122.

 

“All in Knots: Teaching the Heptameron with Les Prisons

          in Approaches to Teaching Marguerite de Navarre’s “Heptameron,” edited by Colette H. Winn (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2007), pp. 135-140.

 

“Rules for Writing: The ‘Dames de Poissy’”

          in The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices, edited by Thomas M. Carr, Jr, EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, 11 (2007), 44-58.

 

“Faire revivre l’épopée à la Renaissance : A propos de quelques réincarnations d’Homère”

          in Palimpsestes épiques : Récritures et interférences génériques, edited by Dominique Boutet and Camille Esmein-Sarrazin (Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2006), pp. 25-43.

 

“A Prototype of the Modern Man: Saint Joseph in France, c. 1400-1650”

          in Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century France: Proceedings of the Eighth Cambridge French Renaissance Colloquium, 5-7 July 2003, edited by Philip Ford and Paul White (Cambridge: Cambridge French Colloquia, 2006), pp. 1-21.

 

“Désagrégations : Des « mauvais déboires » de l’amour à l’h/Histoire au féminin”

          in « L’Heptaméron » de Marguerite de Navarre (II), edited by Chantal Liaroutzos, Cahiers textuel, no 29 (Paris: Publications universitaires Denis-Diderot, 2006), pp. 45-57.

 

“Paroles d’hommes, de femmes et de Dieu : Langage, genre et transcendance dans la nouvelle 70”

          in Lire L’« Heptaméron » de Marguerite de Navarre, edited by Dominique Bertrand (Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2005), pp. 197-210.

 

“History or Her Story? (Homo)sociality/sexuality in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron 12”

          in Narrative Worlds, edited by Gary Ferguson and David LaGuardia (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2005), pp. 97-122.

 

“Reviving Epic in Renaissance France: Ronsard, Jamyn, and Other Homers”

          in (Re)Inventing the Past, edited by Gary Ferguson and Catherine Hampton, Durham Modern Languages Series (Durham: University of Durham, 2003), pp. 125-152.

 

“Masculinity, Confession, Modernity: François de Sales and the Penitent Gentleman”

          L’Esprit Créateur, “French Masculinities,” 43, no 3 (Fall 2003), 16-25.

 

“The Stakes of Sanctity and Sinfulness: Tales of the Priory of Poissy (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)”

          in Female Saints and Sinners, Saintes et Mondaines (France 1450-1650), edited by Jennifer Britnell and Ann Moss, Durham Modern Languages Series (Durham: University of Durham, 2002), pp. 59-78.

 

“Le Chapelet et la plume, ou, quand la religieuse se fait écrivain : le cas du prieuré de Poissy (1562-1621)”

          Nouvelle Revue du Seizième Siècle, 19, no 2 (2001), 83-99.

 

“Anne de Marquets, Sonets spirituels (1605)”

          a translation into English of fourteen sonnets with an introductory essay, notes and a bibliography, with Catherine Hampton, in Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women: From Marie de France to Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, edited by Anne R. Larsen and Colette H. Winn (New York and London: Garland, 2000), pp. 213-223.

 

“Figuring the Grieving Subject: Jamyn’s Cleophon, Henri III, and the Eloquence of Poetry” Mediaevalia, 22, Special Issue (1999), 223-243.

 

“The Feminisation of Devotion: Gabrielle de Coignard, Anne de Marquets, and François de Sales”

          in Women’s Writing in the French Renaissance: Proceedings of the Fifth Cambridge French Renaissance Colloquium, 7-9 July 1997, edited by Philip Ford and Gillian Jondorf (Cambridge: Cambridge French Colloquia, 1999), pp. 187-206.

 

“Perfecting Friendship: Montaigne’s Itch”

          Montaigne Studies, 9 (1997), 105-120.

 

“Anne de Marquets’s Smattering of Latin and Greek: Damning Faint Praise from Henri Estienne [1531-1598] and Léon Feugère [1810-1858]”

          in Women Writers in Pre-Revolutionary France: Strategies of Emancipation, edited by Colette H. Winn and Donna Kuizenga (New York and London: Garland, 1997), pp. 243-252.

 

“Biblical Exegesis and Social and Theological Commentary in the Sonets spirituels of Anne de Marquets”

          Œuvres et Critiques, 20, 2 (1995), 111-121.

 

“Gendered Oppositions in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron: The Rhetoric of Seduction and Resistance in Narrative and Society”

          in Renaissance Women Writers: French Texts/American Contexts, edited by Anne R. Larsen and Colette H. Winn (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994), pp. 143-159.

 

“Pedestrian Chivalry: Novella 50 and the Unsaddling of Courtly Tradition in the Heptaméron

          in Heroic Virtue, Comic Infidelity: Reassessing Marguerite de Navarre’s “Heptaméron,” edited by Dora E. Polachek (Amherst: Hestia, 1993), pp. 118-131.

 

“Symbolic Sexual Inversion and the Construction of Courtly Manhood in Two French Romances”

          Arthurian Yearbook, 3, edited by Keith Busby (New York and London: Garland, 1993), 203-213.

 

“Now in a glass darkly: the textual status of the je parlant in the Miroirs of Marguerite de Navarre”

          Renaissance Studies, 5 (1991), 398-411.

 

“Towards a Protestant Theology of Justification: A Sommaire or Microcosm”

          Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, 51 (1989), 601-608.

 

 

Dictionary and Encyclopedia Articles:

 

 

“Marquets, Anne de (ca. 1533-1588),” in Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England, edited by Diana Robin, Anne R. Larsen, and Carole Levin (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2007), pp. 237-239.

 

“Marquets, Anne de (1533?-1588),” in Dictionnaire SIEFAR (Société Internationale pour l’Etude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime), text in French and English, http://www.siefar.org/DictionnaireSIEFAR/SFMarquetsA.html (2003).

 

“Marquets, Anne de,” in The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature, edited by Eva Martin Sartori (Westport: Greenwood, 1999), pp. 344-346.

 

 

INVITED LECTURES

 

 

“(Hi)stories of Sexuality: Montaigne’s Travel Journal and Same-Sex Marriage in

           Sixteenth-Century Rome”

           Cornell University, Department of Romance Studies (February 2009)

 

“An Ambiguous Threesome: Marguerite de Navarre, Boccaccio, Apuleius”

           University of Virginia, Department of French (November 2008)

 

“Queer (Hi)stories: A Tale of Two Confraternities and of Same-Sex Marriage in

           Sixteenth-Century Rome”

           Dartmouth College, Department of French and Italian (October 2008)

 

“Italian Models / Italian Vices: Marguerite de Navarre and Boccaccio”

          Arizona State University, School of International Letters and Cultures and Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (April, 2008).

 

          University of Notre Dame, Department of Romance Languages, Devers Program in Dante Studies, and Nanovic Institute for European Studies (December 2007).

 

“Androgynes, Courtesans, and Lesbians: Women, Nature, and Pleasure in Renaissance France”

          Cornell University, Department of Comparative Literature, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, and Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies Program (November 2007).

 

          University of Pennsylvania, Department of Romance Languages, French Cultural Studies Series (October 2007).

 

          University of Delaware, LGBTQ Lecture Series (May 2007).

 

          University of Kansas, Department of French and Italian and Hall Center for the Humanities Gender Seminar Series and Early Modern Seminar Series (April 2007).

 

          Binghamton University (SUNY), Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (February 2007).

 

          Trinity College, Dublin, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (January 2007).

 

“Greek for Lesbians: Plato and Lucian in Renaissance France”

          University of Cambridge, Department of Medieval and Modern Languages, Early Modern Seminar (May 2006).

 

“Just Sex? Some Historical Variations on a Perennial Theme”

          The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia (February 2006).

 

“Des goûts et de la nature … Réflexions sur l’homosexualité avant la sexualité”

          Université Paris XIII (Paris-Nord), Ecole doctorale (December 2005).

 

“Faire revivre l’épopée à la Renaissance : A propos de quelques réincarnations d’Homère” Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, Groupe de Recherche sur l’Epique (March 2004).