Mary B. McKinley

Professor of French

E-mail:
Phone: 434-924-4632
Office: 105 Levering Hall
Spring 2012 Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00

Education:

• Seton Hill College, BA
• University of Wisconsin, MA
• Rutgers University, PhD

Research interests:

Sixteenth-century French and continental literature; Montaigne, Marguerite de Navarre, Mediterranean and New World travel narrative, history of the book and print culture.

Books:

Marie Dentière.  Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by Calvin.  (editor and translator) The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Les terrains vagues des «Essais»: Itinéraires et intertextes.  Etudes montaignistes # 25, Paris/Geneva: Cham­pion/­Slatkine, 1995.

Words in a Corner: Studies in Montaigne's Latin Quotations. Lexington, Kentucky: French Forum Publishers, 1981.

Some recent articles:

“La palinodie de Montaigne,” forthcoming.

“Teaching Marie Dentière’s Epistle with the Heptameron,” in Teaching Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Colette Winn, New York, MLA Publications, 2011, 273-84.

“From Cave to Choir: the Journey of the Sibyls,” Pre-Histories and Afterlives: Studies towards a New Cultural History, Symposium in Honor of Terence Cave, ed. Richard Scholar and Anna Holland, Oxford, Legenda, 2009, 45-59.

“Iconoclasm in Lyon (1562): Three Contemporary Chroniclers,” Ritratti: La dimensione individuale nella storia (secoli xv-xx), festschrift for Anne Jacobson Schutte, ed. Silvana Sydel Menchi & Robert Pierce, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2008, 225-247.

Some recent courses:

Graduate:

            Ovidian Imitations in Renaissance Poetry
            Montaigne seminar
            The Heptaméron and the Tradition of Framed Narrative
            Lyon Capitale de la Renaissance
            Rabelais seminar

Undergraduate:

            New World Travel Narrative: Verazzano, Cartier, Rabelais, Léry, Montaigne
            Femmes Ecrivains de la Renaissance
            La France à la Renaissance
            Masterpieces of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
            The Reading and Writing of Texts: Analytical Writing         

Links:

The Renaissance in Print  http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/digitalcuration/portfolio/gordon/index.html

LIBRA: Online Archive of University of Virginia Scholarship
“Agony, Ecstasy, and the Mulekeepr’s Wife: a Reading of Heptaméron 2”
http://libra.virginia.edu/catalog/libra-oa:65