Early Modern Poetry, Sixteenth Century French Literature in All Genres

VANESSA GLAUSER

EDUCATION

Stanford University, Ph.D., expected June 2018 Special Fields: early modern poetry, sixteenth century French literature in all genres

Stanford University, Ph.D. Minor, expected June 2018 Special Fields: Latin literature with a focus on Augustan poetry, archaic Greek literature, the Anacreontea

École Normale Supérieure, Séléction internationale, 2016-2017 Paris, France

University of Zurich, B.A., 2013 Special Fields: French literature and linguistics, English literature and Linguistics

DISSERTATION

“Ancient Texts and their Renaissance Readers: The Production of Literary Value in Estienne’s Editions and Ronsard’s Poetry”

Chair Cécile Alduy

Readers David Lummus, Alessandro Barchiesi, Richard P. Martin

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2016- 2017 Teaching Award, Division of Languages, Cultures and Literatures, Stanford University

2015-2016 Fellowship, Advanced Seminar in the Humanities, Venice International University, Italy

PUBLICATIONS

2019 “Le doux style bas d’Anacréon et Théocrite: Les transformations des poètes édités par Henri Estienne sous la plume de Ronsard.” L’Année Ronsardienne 1, Classiques Garnier (janvier 2019). Forthcoming.

2018 “The Conquest of the Ancients: The Gender of Imitation in Louise Labé’s Euvres and the ‘Escriz de divers poëtes, à la louenge de Louize Labé Lionnoize.’” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 12.2 (April 2018). Forthcoming.

BOOK REVIEWS

2017 Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne. By Ullrich Langer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Renaissance and Reformation 40.2 (Spring 2017): 202-204.

2017 Sur le sonnet 31 des Regrets. Éléments d’histoire des idées à la Renaissance. De François Roudaut. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. Renaissance and Reformation 40.1 (Spring 2017): 271-273.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2017 “French ‘Deffence,’ Greek and Latin ‘Illustration’: Rereading France’s Poetry of the 1550s,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, April 2017

2016 “Sixteenth Century Controversies Over Language and Its Limits,” Sixteenth Century Society Conference in Bruges, August 2016

2016 “Renaissant Debates: Investigations into the Nature of Language in and Beyond Rabelais’s Texts,” Renaissance Conference of Southern California Annual Meeting, June 2016

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Winter 2018 Graduate Student Instructor, Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance French Literature (French 130):

Teaching canonical French medieval and Renaissance texts; helping students improve French language skills, and providing training in literary analysis

Fall 2016 Graduate Student Instructor, Advanced French Language Course with a cultural emphasis (French 22C): Consolidating grammatical structures, exploring French and Francophone cultures, histories and media

Fall 2016 Teaching Assistant, Honors College: Leading group discussions; advising and supporting senior undergraduates writing their Honors Thesis during office hours

2014-2015 Graduate Student Instructor, Introductory French Language Courses (French 1, 2, 3): Building abilities to speak, write, and read in French in all tenses; introducing students to French cultures and traditions from around the world

ACADEMIC ONLINE WORK

2016 Assistant Editor, Stanford Global Shakespeare Encyclopedia: Proof reading and editing all entries for the letter “G”

2015 Translator, Stanford Arcade: Translation of an article by Nicolas Lebourg on Islamophobia in France, published in a special issue on the Charlie Hebdo Attacks in the online journal Occasion (published by Arcade) (http://arcade.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/article_pdfs/Occasi on_v09_lebourg_final.pdf)

LANGUAGES

Native: German and English

Near Native: French

Advanced reading skills: Latin and Ancient Greek

Reading knowledge: Italian