Jean-Claude Carron

Teaching & Research Interests

• Renaissance studies and poetry.
• Currently working on the concept of poetic imitation and on philosophical dialogues as a literary genre.

Background

• Doctorat es Lettres (PhD), University of Geneva, Switzerland.
• Previously taught at the Istituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne in Milan (Italy) and at St.-John's and Queen's Colleges, Oxford (UK)

Selected Publications

• Discours de l'errance amoureuse: Une lecture du 'canzoniere' de Pontus de Tyard (Paris: Vrin, 1986)
• (Editor) François Rabelais: Critical Assessments (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)
• "Originality and (anti-)imitation in the Renaissance" (Forthcoming, Lexington KY: French Forum Publishers)
• Numerous articles on Renaissance history of ideas, philosophical dialogue, poetry, Mallarmé, and Montaigne.

Forthcoming Publications

• "Poétique et rhétorique de l'(anti)imitation à la Renaissance." Book-length manuscript.
• "Interférences dialogiques et "efficace" littéraire dans les Dialogues philosophiques." To be published in the Acts of the University of Paris-Créteil's colloquium on Pontus de Tyard (November 1998)
• "Le Dialogue amoureux." To be published in the Acts of the First Isidore Silver Memorial Colloquium, Washington University, Saint-Louis
• Le jeu dialogique dans le Cymbalum Mundi, Actes du Colloque "Cymbalum Mundi," Rome (Italy), November 2000
• "Abraham sacrifiant de Théodore de Bèze: résistance et propagande évangéliques au 16e siècle." Actes du Colloque "Théâtres interdits et théâtres secrets". Haifa University (Israel). June 2001

Conferences and Colloquia

• "Interférences dialogiques et "efficace" littéraire dans les Dialogues philosophiques." University of Paris-Créteil's colloquium on Pontus de Tyard (November 1998)
• "Love, Knowledge, and Representation, from Petrarch to Montaigne." Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles (March 1999)
• "French Renaissance Ideas of Imitation." Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Faculty Roundtable, UCLA, May 1999
• "Poetical imitation in 16th-century France." Roundtable, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA (October, 99)
• "Le dialogue amoureux." First Isidore Silver Memorial Colloquium, Washington University, Saint-Louis (October 1999)
• "The Meaning and Use of Dialogue in the 'Discours philosophiques' de Tyard." Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Florence - Italy (March 2000)
• "The Cymbalum Mundi: jeu dialogique." Colloquium Bonaventure des Périers, University of Rome (Fall 2000).
• "Relire les Erreurs amoureuse de Tyard." Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, March 2001
• "Gallic Baroque: Ostentation and Propaganda." Culture and Authority in the Baroque III: Poetry and Wonder. The Center for 17th- and 18th- Centuries Studies, UCLA, April 2001
• "Abraham sacrifiant de Théodore de Bèze: résistance et propagande évangéliques au 16e siècle." Colloque "Théâtres interdits et théâtres secrets". Haifa University (Israel), June 2001
• "L'art de la persuasion littéraire dans les dialogues philosophiques", 2002 Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in San Antonio, TX (October 2002)
• "Poétique du plagiat." Groupe d'Etudes sur le XVIe siècle, University of Geneva (Switzerland) (December 2002)

Professional Activities

• Session Chair: "Female Self-fashioning in the Renaissance." Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA (May 2000).
• Member of the MLA Sixteenth Century Executive Committee (French Literature) (2002-2007)

Honors and Awards

• Borchard Foundation grant in support of the colloquium "Can't we live together? Autour de l'Edit de Nantes." La Bretesche (France), August 1998.
• Borchard Foundation. Scholar-in-Residence. La Bretesche (France), Fall 2002

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