Bernd Renner
Professor
Modern Languages and Literatures
Location: 4157 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x3679
Fax: 718.951.4235
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Bernd Renner was raised and educated in Germany and France before coming to the United States to pursue his doctoral studies at Princeton University.
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:
Renner specializes in early modern literature and culture. Lately, his work in 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 serves as a major element of the cultural, literary and historical landscape of the Renaissance. This work falls into the larger category of early modern poetics, rhetoric and hermeneutics that is at the basis of his interests.
Books and Publications
« Rabelais, Fischart et Urquhart à Thélème : Ambiguïté et utilité du modèle
utopique », L'Année rabelaisienne 4 (2020), p. 101-123. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
« Tout ce qui a été, est et sera : Béroalde de Verville et le mélange ménippéen »,
XIIe Siècle 286 (2020), p. 19-34. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
"'Satura tota nostra est': The Birth of Modern Satire in Renaissance France as
Agent and Consequence of a Major Paradigm Shift" in Paradigm shifts during the Global Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ASMAR 44, ed. A. Classen, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019, 151-175. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2019
"Actualité d'un plagiat pur: Le Cinquiesme Livre apocryphe de Pantagruel de 1549,"
Réforme, Humanisme, Renaissance 88 (2019), eds. A. Réach-Ngô, R. Mouren, 131-148. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
"Cartographie satirique: la rhétorique de l'espace dans la guerre picrocholine
(Gargantua, chap. 33)," in V. Ferrer, O. Millet, A. Tarrête, eds., La Renaissance au grand large. Mélanges en l'honneur de Frank Lestringant, Geneva, Droz, 2019, 395-404. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2019
« 'Quam satyram vocitare queo' : La satire entre sérieux et comique dans les Nefs
des fols », Cahiers de Recherche médiévale et humaniste, 38 (2019), p.429-448. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
« Introduction : Les Nefs des fous : traduction, imitatio et contestation », Cahiers de
Recherche médiévale et humaniste, 38 (2019), p. 389-396.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
"'Découvrir le pot aux roses': critique et polémique" L'Année rabelaisienne 2
(2018), 429-35. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
"'Real versus ideal': Utopia and the early modern satirical tradition." Renaissance
and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, 41.3 (Summer 2018), 47-66. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
"'Truthful Jesting': Satirical Elements in Ariosto's Orlando furioso" in Teaching the
Italian Renaissance Romance Epic, ed. J. A. Cavallo, New York, MLA, 2018, 136-45. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2018
"Des Regrets aux Divers Jeux rustiques: un tournant de la satire renaissante?
L'exemple du mépris de la cour", Le Mépris de la Cour. La littérature anti-aulique en Europe (XVIe-XVIIe siècles), Cahiers V. L. Saulnier, 35, eds. N. Peyrebonne, A. Tarrête, M.-Cl. Thomine. Paris: PUPS, 2018, 33-50. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
"Itineraries of Satire. Polysemy and Morality in Marguerite de Navarre's
Heptaméron," Itineraries in French renaissance Literature. Essays for Mary B. McKinley, eds. J. Persels, K. Tarte, G. Hoffmann, Leiden, Brill, 2018, 75-92. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2018
"'Vous jà ne m'en ferez rire': Rire, ironie et dialogue de Lucien à Rabelais et
Béroalde de Verville." Rire et Dialogue, eds. M. Briand, S. Dubel, A. Eissen. La Licorne 126 (2017), 97-110. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
"La fin du Quart Livre: apogée du meslange satiricque." "Rabelais et l'hybridité des
récits rabelaisiens. Actes du Colloque international de Montréal. Eds. D. Desrosiers, C. La Charité, C. Veilleux, T. Vigliano. Etudes Rabelaisiennes LVI. Geneva: Droz, 2017, 311-24. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
'Qu'un fol enseigne bien un saige': Folie et ironie dans le Tiers Livre de
Pantagruel," L'Année rabelaisienne 1 (2017), 161-81. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
"'Car Satire est autre chose'. Lyon marchant. Satyre Françoise de Barthélemy
Aneau et le mélange satirique," Bibliothèque Humanisme et Renaissance, LXXVII (2015), 537-58. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
"'Naturaliser l'art(tifice)'. Montaigne encyclopédiste", Bulletin de la Société
internationale des amis de Montaigne 59 (2014), 87-105. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
"Boucher pamphlétaire: entre sermon horatien et satyra illudens" in Oeuvres et
Critiques, XXXVIII, 2 (2013), 11-24.
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
"From Satura to Satyre: François Rabelais and the Renaissance Appropriation of a Genre." Renaissance Quarterly 67.2, Summer: 377-424. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
"Le Conscient graphique: la satire rabelaisienne de la guerre." Illustrations inconscientes: écritures de la Renaissance. Mélanges offerts à Tom Conley. Eds B. Renner and Ph. Usher. Paris: Classiques Garnier. 219-37. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2014
Renner, Bernd and Ph.J. Usher. Illustrations inconscientes: Écritures de la Renaissance. Mélanges offerts à Tom Conley. Paris: Classiques-Garnier. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2014
"'Ridentem dicere verum': The Role of Laughter in the Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale." At Whom Are We Laughing? Humor in Romance Language Literatures. Eds. Z. Sacks DaSilva and G.M. Pell. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 171-81. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2013
"Boucher pamphlétaire: entre sermon horatien et satyra illudens." Oeuvres et Critiques XXXVIII.2: 11-24. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
"Entre science et satire: figures de monstruosité et monde renversé dans les traités d'Ambroise Paré." Les Figures du monde renversé de la Renaissance aux Lumières. Hommage à Louis Van Delft. Paris: Hermann. 311-32. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2013
"Satire et cynisme chez Juvénal et Martial. Aspects stylistiques de la satire renaissante." Les Interférences des écoles de pensée antiques dans la littérature de la Renaissance. Ed. E. Tilson. Paris: Classiques Garnier. 181-201. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2013
"Rabelais, François." Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation. Ed. Margaret King. New York: Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2012
"Rire et satire à l'aube des guerres civiles: l'exemple des Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale." The Romanic Review 101 (2010, published May 2012), 655-71. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
"Virgil and Marot: Imitation, Satire and Personal Identity." Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance. Eds. P. Usher and I. Fernbach. Cambridge: Brewer. 19-37. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2012
"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: Book Chapter) 2011
"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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Book (Edited)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
"Etudes rabelaisiennes, Tome XLIV, Varia." Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance LXX: 71-74. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Article (Other)) 2007
Difficile est saturam non scribere: L'Hermeneutique de la satire rabelaisienne. Etudes rabelaisiennes 45. Geneva: Droz. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Article (Other)) 2006
"Francois de Malherbe." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Sixteenth-Century French Writers. Thomson Gale. 262-68. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 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: Article (Other)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Article (Other)) 2005
"Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples." Great Lives From History: The Renaissance and Early Modern Era, 1454-1600. Salem Press. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2005
"Joachim du Bellay." Great Lives From History: The Renaissance and Early Modern Era, 1454-1600. Salem Press. 548-50. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 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: Article (Other)) 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: Article (Other)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2004
"Alea iacta iudiciorum est: Legal Satire and the Problem of Interpretation in Rabelais." Comitatus 35: 83-107. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2004
"Anarche." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 7. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 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: Article (Other)) 2004
"Eudemon." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 71. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2004
"Gross Medlars." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 103-04. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2004
"Her Trippa." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 110. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 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: Article (Other)) 2004
"Mardigras." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 152-53. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2004
"Menippean Paradox." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 157-58. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2004
"Niphleseth." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 170. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2004
"Salmigondin." The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 221-22. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2004
"Satire (satyre)."The Rabelais Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Chesney-Zegura. Greenwood Press. 223-24. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2002
"La Memoire defaillante de Montaigne: un stratageme judicieux?" Cincinnati Romance Review XIX: 102-11. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2000
"Le Moyen de parvenir de Francois Beroalde de Verville: une encyclopedie anti-encyclopedique." Cincinnati Romance Review XIV: 8-16. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 1995
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Wolfe Fellowship in the Humanities. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Wolfe Fellowship in the Humanities. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
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
Journée d'Etudes "Ve Livre", Université Paris-Sorbonne (Prof. Pouey-Mounou). Paper : « 'On les appeloit Tityres et Satyres' : Rabelais rhétoriqueur satirique »
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
Atelier seizième siècle franco-canadien, University of Toronto. Paper: "Le prologue de Fischart."
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2019
Les strategies de destination large de la fiction narrative aux XVe et XVIe siècles, Université de Caen. Paper: "'Celui qui veult tout, preigne tout': strategies d'élaboration du lectorat idéal dans la satire renaissante"
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2019
Rabelais/Fischart workshop in Lille. Collaboration of the University Lille 3, Paris-Sorbonne, and the LMU, Munich (Prof. Kammerer) (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
RSA Annual Conference, Toronto. Paper: "Le concept du pantagruélisme." (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019
Université de Nice-Sofia-Antipolis. International conference on « tolérance ».
Member of the program committee.
Paper: « La tolérance en temps de guerre : Ronsard et Aubigné ». (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2019
Association internationale des Études du Moyen Français, annual conference, University Paris-Sorbonne and Institut de France.
Paper : "'Quam satyram vocitare queo': Les Nefs des Folz entre Horace et Juvénal."
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2018
International conference "The Ships of Fools in Europe," University Bordeaux Montaigne; presenter, session chair.
Paper: "La première satire universelle? Le corpus des Nefs des Fous, de Brant aux imitations françaises."
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2018
RSA Annual Conference, New Orleans, panel organizer, presenter, session chair.
Papers: - "Rabelais, Fischart et Urquhart à Thélème: réception européenne et malléabilité satirique."
- "Le Voile de la facétie: ridentem dicere verum et réception."
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
SCSC Annual Conference, Albuquerque; session organizer. Paper: "Humanisme et satire à Lyon dans les années 1540."
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
Colloque V.L. Saulnier, Université Paris-Sorbonne
Paper: "Des Regrets aux Divers Jeux rustiques: un tournant de la satire renaissante? L'exemple du mépris de la cour."
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
Labex OBVIL, Université Paris-Sorbonne: "Facétie et satire, une tentative de conciliation" (Prof. Thomine). (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"Utopia at 500 years." International conference at the University of Saskatchewan.
Paper: "'Real versus ideal': Utopia and the early modern satirical tradition" (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2016
3/16 RSA Annual Conference, Boston, Mass.
Member of the program committee; organizer of a panel; chair of three panels.
Papers: --"Tragicque farce ou tragicque comedie? L'évolution de la farce au Quart Livre."
--"Le rire des rois : l'exemple de Rabelais." (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
3e Atelier XVIe siècle franco-américain; Harvard University; co-organizer.
Paper: "Le dessein du livre: le prologue du Pantagruel." (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
International conference, University of Toronto, Canada.
"Promotion, mediation et role de l'auteur au seizième siècle." (Prof. Holtz)
Paper: "L'auteur satirique: Brant, Locher et Rabelais."
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
Co-organizer, panel chair, and presenter: "Atelier XVIe siècle franco-allemand," Preussische Staatsbibliothek, Berlin.
Paper: "Satire et peur du féminin dans le corpus des Nefs des fous"
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
Rabelais/Fischart workshop in Lille, France. Collaboration of the University Lille 3 and the LMU, Munich (Prof. Pouey-Mounou). (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
RSA Annual Conference, Berlin, Germany.
Member of the program committee; organizer of two panels, chair of four panels.
Papers: --"Le Cinquiesme Livre apocryphe de Pantagruel (1549): entre plagiat et polémique."
--"Le rire des rois: Pierre Gringore, Clément Marot et François Rabelais."
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
Spaces of the French Renaissance, Dartmouth College (Prof. LaGuardia)
Paper: "Verbal constructions of space in Rabelais" (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"'Par peur de (re)tomber dans cette Satyricque mocquerie': la satire dans le Cinquième Livre." Inextinguible Rabelais. International conference at the University Paris-Sorbonne. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"'Schympff und Ernst': Le mot d'esprit dans le Narrenschiff de Brant et ses premières variantes françaises" and "Conclusion générale." La Traduction du mot d'esprit. International conference of the group FACEF at the Université Blaise Pascal. Clermont-Ferrand, France. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"'Un coup de jeu n'est-ce': les singeries et la querelle entre Marot et Sagon." Les Singes et les Singeries à la Renaissance. International conference of the group FACEF. Château de Chantilly, France. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"'Vous jà ne m'en ferez rire': Rire, ironie et dialogue de Lucien à Rabelais et Béroalde de Verville." Le Rire de Lucien. International conference at the University Poitiers, France. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
Panel organizer, chair and presenter, "Rabelais et la folie: une relecture." RSA Annual Conference. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Facétie et paradoxe: un ridentem dicere verum érudit." Rire et contacts de cultures entre France et Italie (XVe-XVIIe siècles). International conference of the group FACEF. Université Blaise Pascal. Clermont-Ferrand, France.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Glaive ou cure? Le livre comme agent de la passion." Consuming Passions. Washington University in Saint Louis, Mo. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Polémique et invective : l'évolution des libelles français au seizième siècle" and chair, panel on religious polemics. Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Satura tota nostra est: The Birth of Modern Satire in Renaissance France." MLA Annual Conference. Boston. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2013
"La Naissance de la satire moderne: le rôle du théâtre populaire." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Cincinnati. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"'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
6e Atelier XVIe siècle franco-américain. University Paris-Sorbonne. Co-organizer, session chair. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
Program committee: Conference on "Tolerance", University of Nice-Sofia Antipolis, October 2019 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019
5e Atelier XVIe siècle franco-américain. Tulane University, New Orleans, organizer. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2018
4e Atelier XVIe siècle franco-américain. University Paris-Sorbonne. Co-organizer, session chair. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2017
Renaissance Society of America. Program committee member for the annual conference, Boston 2016, with over 2700 presentations. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016
Renaissance Society of America. Program committee member for the annual conference, Berlin, Germany, with over 3000 presentations. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
Member, Program Committee. Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, 2014. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2013
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
Other Professional Activities
Co-edited 12-chapter dossier (with Claude La Charité, Anne-Pascale-Pouey-Mounou, Romain
Menini : Fortunes de Rabelais, de Claude Nourry à Ernest Renan / Uses of Rabelais, from Claude Nourry to Ernest Renan, in L'Année rabelaisienne 4 (2020), p. 52-267. 2020
Edited 4-chapter dossier: Le corpus des Nefs des fous: imitatio, translatio et satire à l'aube de
la Renaissance / The Corpus of the Ships of Fools: imitatio, translatio, and satire at the dawn of the Renaissance, in Cahiers de Recherche médiévale et humaniste, 38 (2019), p. 388-448.
2019
Renner, Bernd, and M. Huchon (University Paris-Sorbonne/IUF), co-organizers, and panel chair, Atelier XVIe Siècle, a conference at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York. 2014
