Bernd Renner

Education:

Ph.D., Princeton University - 2000 (Romance Languages and Literatures)

M.A., Princeton University - 1995 (Romance Languages and Literatures)

M.A., Miami University, Ohio - 1993 (French)

B.A., University of Erlangen - 1989 (French, English, Linguistics)

Areas of Expertise:

Bernd Renner specializes in early modern literature and culture. Lately, his work within this field has focused on the literature of satire, which underwent major changes in the period, combining Greek, Latin and medieval vernacular traditions into an innovative literary blend that infiltrated all the traditional literary genres of the time and serves as a major element of the cultural, literary and historical landscape of the Renaissance.

Books and Publications

"Panurge, Parody, and Perplexity: From Satyr-Play to Satire." Approaches to Teaching the Works of François Rabelais. Eds. F. Gray and T. Reeser. New York: MLA. 62-72. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011

EMF: Studies in Early Modern France. Volume 14. Obscenity. Sous la direction de Hugh G.A. Roberts (Charlottesville, Va.: Rookwood Press, 2010). Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance LXXIII: 752-54. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2011

"Juvénal et les Nefs des Folz: rhétorique et translatio studii." Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance LXXII: 283-300. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

"Provocation et perplexité: le double éloge paradoxal des dettes et de la rhétorique (Tiers Livre II à V)." Etudes rabelaisiennes L. Geneva: Droz. 45-65. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

Fictions du Diable. Démonologie et littérature de saint Augustin à Léo Taxil. Ouvrage dirigé par F. Lavocat, P. Kapitaniak et M. Closson (Geneva: Droz, 2007). Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance LXXII: 176-78. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2010

"Avant-propos." La Satire dans tous ses états: Le "meslange satyricque" à la Renaissance française. Geneva: Droz. 7-22. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009

"Fictions du Diable. Démonologie et literature de saint Augustin à Léo Taxil." Eds. F. Lavocat, P. Kapitaniak and M. Closson. Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance LXXII: 176-78. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2009

"Poetic Liberation From Hell: Clément Marot's L'Enfer." La Satire dans tous ses états: Le meslange satyricque à la Renaissance française. Geneva: Droz. 203-19. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009

"Politique des Amours: Poétique et Genèse d'un Genre Français Nouveau," by Cécile Alduy. Sixteenth Century Journal XL, Fall: 918-20. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2009

"Théodore de Bèze: Poète et théologien," by Alain Dufour. Sixteenth Century Journal XL, Summer: 541-42. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2009

La Satire dans tous ses états: Le meslange satyricque à la Renaissance française. Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance 92, Geneva: Droz. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2009

Renner, Bernd and Charles-Antoine Chamay. "Les Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale: Jeux et enjeux d'un texte de combat." La Satire dans tous ses états: Le meslange satyricque à la Renaissance française. Geneva: Droz. 267-84. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009

"Etudes rabelaisiennes, Tome XLIV, Varia." Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance LXX: 71-74. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008

"La Notion de perplexité à la Renaissance," by Stéphan Geonget. Sixteenth Century Journal XXXIX.2, Summer: 534-35. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2008

"Le roman humaniste: un genre novateur français, 1532-1564," by Pascal Mounier. Sixteenth Century Journal XXXIX, Winter: 1154-55. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2008

"Monstruosité et gigantisme rabelaisien: l'apport de la farce." "Esprit généreux, esprit pantagruélicque." Essays by His Students in Honor of François Rigolot. Eds. R. Leushuis and Z. Zalloua. Geneva: Droz. 209-30. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008

"Satirical dialogism in the Paratext of Bonaventure Des Périers' Nouvelles Récréations et Joyeux Devis." French Forum 33.1-2: 1-14. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008

"Clément Marot: The Mirror of the Prince," by Eshan Ahmed. French Review 81.1, Winter. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2007

"De bonne vie s'ensuit bonne mort: Récits de mort, récits de vie en Europe (XVe-XVIIe siècle)." Eds. Patricia Eichel-Lojkine and Claudie Martin-Ulrich. Renaissance Quarterly Winter: 1431-32. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2007

"From the 'bien yvres' to messere Gaster: The Syncretism of Rabelaisian Banquets." At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, XVIII. Eds. J. Vitullo and T. Tomasik. Turnhout: Brepols. 167-85. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

"La Syrinx au bûcher. Pan et les satyres à la Renaissance et à l'âge baroque," by Françoise Lavocat. Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVIII, Summer: 524-26. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2007

"Les Grands Jours de Rabelais en Poitou. Etudes Rabelaisiennes XLII." Eds. M.-L. Demonet and S. Geonget. Sixteenth Century Journal Winter: 1133-34. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2007

"March 3, 1830: Hugo's Hernani Incites Riots." Great Events From History: The 19th Century, 1801-1900. Salem Press. 454-56. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007

Difficile est saturam non scribere: L'Hermeneutique de la satire rabelaisienne. Etudes rabelaisiennes 45. Geneva: Droz. (Books and Publications: Book) 2007

"'Ni l'un ni l'autre et tous les deux a la fois': Le Paradoxe menippeen inverse dans le Tiers Livre de Rabelais." The Romanic Review 97.2: 153-67. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006

"Autour de Ramus: Le Combat." Eds. Kees Meerhoff and Jean-Claude Moisan. Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance LXIX: 306-08. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2006

"Changes in Renaissance Epistemology: The Dialogism of Rabelais's Prologues." Charting Change in France Around 1540. Ed. M. Rothstein. Susquehanna University Press. 186-212. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006

"Etienne Tabourot, Les Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords. Quatrieme Livre avec Les Apophthegmes du Sr Gaulard." Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVII: 493-94. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"Francois de Malherbe." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Sixteenth-Century French Writers. Thomson Gale. 262-68. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"La pensee religieuse d'Agrippa d'Aubigne et son expression," by Marie-Madeleine Fragonard. Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVII, Spring: 175-76. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2006

"Le Dialogue à la Renaissance: Histoire et Poétique," by Eva Kushner. Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVII, Fall: 959-60. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2006

"Pierre Gringore, Les Entrees royales a Paris de Marie d'Angleterre (1514) et Claude de France (1517)." Ed. C. Brown. Renaissance Quarterly 59.2: 886-87. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2006

"Printed Voices: The Renaissance Culture of Dialogue." Eds. Dorothea Heitsch and Jean-François Vallée. Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVII, Fall: 932-33. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2006

"Sotise A Huit Personnaiges [Le Nouveau Monde]." Ed. Olga Anna Duhl. Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVII, Winter: 1132. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2006

"Theodore de Beze, Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale." Ed. C.-A. Chamay. Renaissance Quarterly 59.2: 913-15. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2006

"Thomas Sebillet." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Sixteenth-Century French Writers. Thomson Gale. 393-97. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"'Clement devise dedans Venise': Marot's Satirical Poetry in Exile." Multicultural Europe and Cultural Exchange in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, XII. Ed. J. Helfers. Turnhout: Brepols. 139-54. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

"Clement Marot et les metamorphoses de l'auteur a l'aube de la Renaissance," by Florian Preisig. Renaissance Quarterly 58.3, Fall: 950-51. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2005

"Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature. Studies in Scatology." Eds. Jeff Persels and Russell Ganim. Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance LXVII: 471-72. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2005

"Francois de Malherve, French Poet." Great Lives From History: The Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700. Salem Press. 577-79. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples." Great Lives From History: The Renaissance and Early Modern Era, 1454-1600. Salem Press. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"Joachim du Bellay." Great Lives From History: The Renaissance and Early Modern Era, 1454-1600. Salem Press. 548-50. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"L'Ecriture du Scepticisme chez Montaigne. Actes des journees d'etude (15-16 novembre 2001)." Eds. Marie-Luce Demonet and Alain Legros. Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVI, Fall: 876-78. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2005

"La France des Humanistes. Henri II Estienne. Editeur et ecrivain." Dir. J. Ceard. Renaissance Quarterly 58.1: 246-47. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"La Pleaide Promotes French Poetry." Great Events From History: The Renaissance and Early Modern Era, 1454-1600. Salem Press. 602-05. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"Le 'Cymbalum Mundi.' Actes du Colloque de Rome, 3-6 Novembre 2000." Ed. Franco Gianone. Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVI, Winter: 1156-58. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2005

"Lyon et L'illustration de la langue francaise." Eds. Gerard Defaux and Bernard Colombat. Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVI, Fall: 883-85. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2005

"Pierre Gringore, Oeuvres Polemiques: Redigees sous le Regne de Louis XII." Ed. Cynthia J. Brown. Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVI, Winter: 1160. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2005

"Pierre Le Loyer, La Nephelococugie ou La Nuee des Cocus." Eds. Miriam Doe and Keith Cameron. Renaissance Quarterly 58.4, Winter: 1350-52. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2005

"Un Professeur-Poete humaniste: Joannes Vaccaeus, La Sylve Parisienne (1522)." Ed. P. Galland-Hallyn. Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVI.1: 222-23. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2005

"A Monstrous Body of Writing? Irregularity and the Implicit Unity of Montaigne's 'Des Boyteux.'" French Forum 29.1: 1-20. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004

"Alea iacta iudiciorum est: Legal Satire and the Problem of Interpretation in Rabelais." Comitatus 35: 83-107. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004

"Anarche." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 7. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"Cite des hommes, cite de Dieu. Travaux sur la litterature de la Renaissanceen l'honneur de Daniel Menager." Eds. J. Ceard, M.-C. Gomez-Geraud, M. Magnien and F. Rouget. Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance LXVI: 677-79. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2004

"Coq-a-l'ane." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 40-41. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"Eudemon." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 71. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"Gross Medlars." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 103-04. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"Her Trippa." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 110. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"Jean-Michel Reitsch, Theorie du langage et exegese biblique chez Paracelse (1493-1541)." Renaissance Quarterly 57.1: 305-06. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2004

"Lucian." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 147-48. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"Mardigras." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 152-53. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"Menippean Paradox." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 157-58. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"Niphleseth." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 170. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"Salmigondin." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 221-22. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"Satire (satyre)."The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 223-24. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"From Fearful to Fearsome: Panurge's Satirical Waning." Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, VI. Eds. A. Scott and C. Kosso. Turnhout: Brepols. 206-37. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002

"La Memoire defaillante de Montaigne: un stratageme judicieux?" Cincinnati Romance Review XIX: 102-11. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000

"Le Moyen de parvenir de Francois Beroalde de Verville: une encyclopedie anti-encyclopedique." Cincinnati Romance Review XIV: 8-16. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1995

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

PSC-CUNY Research Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009

PSC-CUNY Research Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008

Bernard H. Stern Professorship in Humor Studies. (Awards and Honors) 2007

PSC-CUNY Research Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007

PSC-CUNY Research Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006

Whiting Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities, spring. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006

PSC-CUNY Research Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2005

PSC-CUNY Research Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2004

PSC-CUNY Research Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2003

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"'Cheminements satiriques': Polysémie et morale chez Marguerite de Navarre." (Prof. Winn). Annual Silver Memorial Lecture. Washington University. St. Louis. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

"François Rabelais and the Development of Early Modern Satire." Columbia University Seminar in the Renaissance. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

"La satire rabelaisienne de la guerre." RSA Annual Conference. Montréal. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

"Lyon merchant: Barthélemy Aneau et les débuts de la satire en vernaculaire." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Fort Worth, Texas. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

"Figures du monde renversé: l'exemple de la satire de la monstruosité au seizième siècle." (Prof. Desjardins). Les Images du monde renversé, conference in honor of Louis Van Delft. Université du Québec. Québec City. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010

"Juvénal et Martial dans la Renaissance française." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Montréal. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010

"Renaissance Encyclopedism." Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar. Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009

"At Whom Are We Laughing? Humor in Romance Languages and Literatures." Hofstra University. Hempstead, N.Y. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

"Paradox and Humor in Sixteenth-century French Literature." Hofstra University. Hempstead, N.Y. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

"Pamphlet ou Farce? Les Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale." Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America. Miami, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"Panurge rhetoriqueur? L'Eloge paradoxal des dettes (Tiers Livre II a V)." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Minneapolis. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"From Satura to Satyre: The Renaissance Appropriation of a Genre." Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

"Le meslange satyrique: une tentative de theorisation de l'hybridite du recit rabelaisien." Les adventures des gens curieulx: L'hybridite des recits rabelaisiens. Colloque international de Montreal. August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2006

"Les Monstres rabelaisiens: voyage satyrique vers la liberation de la parole plurielle." Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America. San Francisco, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

"New Critical Directions in Rabelais Scholarship." MLA Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Dec. 30. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

"Framing the Narrative: Vers une hermeneutique de l'ouverture: l'encadrement du texte rabelaisien" panel. Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America. Cambridge, England, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005

"From the 'bien yvres' to messere Gaster: The Syncretism of Rabelaisian Banquets." Annual Conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Tempe, Ariz., February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005

"Monstruosite et gigantisme rabelaisien: l'apport de la farce." Conference in Honor of Francois Rigolot. Princeton University. Princeton, N.J., October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2005

"Vocal Liberation in Hell: Clement Marot's L'Enfer." Sixteenth-century Studies Conference. Atlanta, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005

Professional Leadership

Organizer, panel on early modern French humor. Hofstra University. Hempstead, N.Y. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008

Organizer, two panels on French Renaissance satire, Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America. Cambridge, England, April. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2005