curriculum vitae

PUBLICATIONS "Ce ne sont pas des bois: Poetry, Regionalism and Loss in Ronsard’s Gâtine Forest”. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32, Spring 2002 Articles "Landscape", "Nature", "Animals", "Forest", "Plotinus", and "The Affaire des Placards". The Rabelais Encyclopedia, edited by Elizabeth Zagura (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.) "An Ecocritical Approach to Reading Don De Lillo's White Noise." In Approaches to Teaching De Lillo's 'White Noise' (New York: MLA Publications, 2006). “The 'Pestilentially Ambitious' Figure of Julius Caesar in the Essais of Michel de Montaigne.” In Julius Caesar in Western Culture, edited by Maria Wyke (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006). "Traduire le Sumatra en francais: Le Discours de la navigation de Jean Parmentier (1529)." Forthcoming in Seuils et Traverses III: Actes du Colloque de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, 10 - 13 juillet, 2003. (New York: Peter Lang, c. 2007). Book reviews: “Le Sang embaumé des roses: Sang et passion dans la poésie amoureuse de Pierre Ronsard” by Marc Carnel. French Review (forthcoming). “La syrinx au bûcher” by Françoise Lavocat. Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS “The Poet and the Cartographer”. Invited talk at the Irvin Colloquium of the University of Miami, Ohio, 1-3 November 2006. “Waking the Forests of France: Vauquelin de la Fresnaye's Les Foresteries (1555).” Presented at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, March 23-25, 2006. Also organised panel in which paper was presented, “Minor Poets of the French Sixteenth-Century”. “The Dark Side of French Science Fiction”. Presented at the Faculty-Graduate Colloquium of the French and Italian Department, University of Washington, June 3, 2005. “Towards a Study of Literature and Landscape in the French Sixteenth Century”. Presented at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, U.K., 6-9 April, 2005. Also organised panel in which paper was presented, “Reading Landscapes in Sixteenth-Century French Literature”. Invited keynote speaker. “Jacques Cartier's Impressions of Canada (1534-1541)”. Presented at the University of Washington Canadian Studies Center, Graduate Student Conference, “Québec in Question”, March 4, 2005. Co-organiser of a national conference hosted by the UW's Early Modern Research Group, “Space and Place in the Early Modern World”, May 20-21, 2004. “An Ecocritical Approach to Teaching Don DeLillo's 'White Noise'.” Part of a round table session promoting the PMLA's  'Approaches to Teaching' book on 'White Noise', presented at the annual conference of the American Literature Association, San Francisco, 27-30 May, 2004. “Landscape, Poetry and Power: The Case of Sixteenth-Century France”. Presented at the annual conference of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society, Bellingham, WA, 6-8 May, 2004. “Aspects of French Literature”. Panel chaired for the 2004 Renaissance Society of America conference, New York City, April 1-3, 2004. “Imitation gone wrong: the ‘pestilentially ambitious’ figure of Julius Caesar in Montaigne’s Essais”. Presented in absentia at “Uses and Abuses of Caesar”, international conference organised by the British School in Rome, Rome, 28-30 March, 2003. “Scientific Poetry”. Panel convened and chaired for the 2003 Renaissance Society of America conference, Toronto, 26-29 March, 2003 "Le 'Discours de la Navigation de Jean Parmentier' (1529): Traduire le Sumatra en français." Presented at “ Seuils et Traverses III ,” International Conference organised by Suds d'Ameriques, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 10 - 13 July, 2002. "La désillusion du maniérisme italien dans la Bergerie de Rémy Belleau." Presented at the 2002 Congress of the Société Canadienne d'Etudes de la Renaissance , Toronto, 26-28 May, 2002. "Jean de Léry and the Sixteenth-Century French encounter with American Nature." Presented at the 43rd annual conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, November 1-3, 2001. "The ‘pestilentially ambitious’ figure of Julius Caesar in Montaigne’s Essais." Presented at the Northern California Renaissance Conference in Chico, CA, May 6-7, 2000. "Ce ne sont pas des bois: Ronsard et la forêt de la Gâtine." Presented at the conference “Litterature Economique et Juridique de l’Ancien Régime,” Paris X (Nanterre), March 23-24, 2000. "Geography and Cartography in Du Bellay’s Lyric Poetry." Presented at the Southern California Renaissance Conference, Pasadena, CA, May 8-9, 1998.

AWARDS Society of Scholars Research Fellowship, University of Washington       2003-2004 Awarded by the Simpson Center for the Humanities to promote faculty research Chancellor's Fellowship for Dissertation Research, UC Berkeley          2000-2001 One of three awarded campus-wide from over two hundred submissions Mentored Research Fellowship                                                                  1998-1999 Awarded to promising scholars from typically underrepresented groups based on faculty sponsorship (Timothy Hampton) UCBerkeley French Department Continuing Student Fellowship            1997-1998 Queen’s College, Oxford Student Scholarship                                          1991-1993 Awarded to second-year students for promise of academic excellence, renewed for final year

TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Washington, Seattle                (go to UW home page) Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian Studies    2001-present Selected Undergraduate Classes: Introduction à la litterature française 1600 à 1789 Women’s writing in Renaissance France and Italy Voyager à la Renaissance La science-fiction française Les guerres de religion Selected Graduate Classes: Rabelais et Montaigne La poésie lyrique du 16e siècle français History of Critical Methodology University of California, Berkeley                (go to UC Berkeley home page) Instructor, Department of Comparative Literature            2000 Freshman Seminar – Introduction to Ecocriticism Designed syllabus. Full responsibility for all lectures.  An introduction to nature in representative texts from world literature, read in combination with ecocritical theory. Instructor, Department of French                                    1995-1997, 1999-2000 First and Second Year French Language, Literature and Composition Full responsibility for all lectures. Taught daily, entirely in French; “direct method”. Designed all examinations in collaboration with colleagues. Second year programme also teaches composition skills, introduction to French texts.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE University of California, Berkeley Proofreading, Editing, Indexing, Bibliography                2000 Research assistant to Timothy Hampton, helping in final stages of preparation of academic book Conference Organisation                                            1996-1997 Paid appointment as assistant to Thomas Kavanagh, with significant responsibility for all aspects of planning and implementation of the 1997 Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference. Freelance Translation, Editing, Research                        1993-1995 Research assistant to Laura Stortoni, helping with editing, research, and translation from Italian, for two volumes of Italian Renaissance women's poetry.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING 2004 University of Washington Teaching Academy's summer "Institute for Teaching Excellence". Methodologies of Second-Language Teaching: Weekly seminars on pedagogy theories and strategies. 1999 Summer Institute at Dartmouth College on Science and Literature: a month-long workshop for advanced graduate students entering the profession, addressing questions of viability of French Studies in the USA and maintaining standards as well as answerability to students.

LANGUAGES French: fluent; Italian: competent speaking and reading; Latin: competent reading.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS SFDES - Société Française d'Etude du Seizième Siècle RSA - Renaissance Society of America SCER - Société Canadienne d'Etudes de la Renaissance MLA - Modern Language Association ASLE - Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment