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Bernd Renner
Campus Affiliation: Brooklyn College
Research Interests: 16th-Century Literature, Early Modern Literature, Satire, Dialogue and Dialogism, Rabelais, Montaigne, Clement Marot
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Associate Professor of French


Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Brooklyn College
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, 11210


Primary concentrations:


Early Modern Literature, Satire, Dialogue and Dialogism, Rabelais, Montaigne, Clement Marot.

Book:

  • Difficile est saturam non scribere: L’Herméneutique de la satire rabelaisienne. Études rabelaisiennes XLV. Geneva: Droz, 2007.

Selected articles:

  • “François de Malherbe.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Sixteenth-Century French Writers (Thomson Gale, 2006), 262-68.
  • "Thomas Sebillet.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Sixteenth-Century French Writers (Thomson Gale, 2006), 393-97.
  • “Changes in Renaissance Epistemology: The Dialogism of Rabelais’s Prologues.” Charting Change in France around 1540, M. Rothstein, ed. (Susquehanna University Press, 2006), 186-212.
  • “March 3, 1830: Hugo’s Hernani Incites Rioting.” Great Events from History: The 19th Century, 1801-1900 (Salem Press, 2007), 454-56.
  • “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, ed. J. Vitullo, T. Tomasik (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 167-85.
  • “Joachim Du Bellay,” Great Lives from History: The Renaissance and Early Modern Era, 1454-1600 ( Salem Press, 2005), 294-96.
  • “Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples,” Great Lives from History: The Renaissance and Early Modern Era, 1454-1600 ( Salem Press, 2005), 548-50.
  • “La Pléiade Promotes French Poetry,” Great Events from History: The Renaissance and Early Modern Era, 1454-1600 ( Salem Press, 2005), 602-5.
  • “François de Malherbe, French Poet” Great Lives from History: The Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700 (Salem Press, 2006), 577-79.
  • “’Ni l’un ni l’autre et tous les deux à la fois’: Le Paradoxe ménippéen inversé dans le Tiers Livre de Rabelais.” The Romanic Review 97.2 (Spring 2006), 153-67.
  • “’Clément devise dedans Venise’: Marot’s Satirical Poetry in Exile,” Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, IX (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005).
  • “Changes in Renaissance Epistemology: The Example of Rabelais’s Prologues.” Collection of Essays on 1540 as a Watershed in French Renaissance Literature (Susquehanna University Press, 2005).
  • “Alea iacta iudiciorum est: Legal Satire and the Problem of Interpretation in Rabelais.” Comitatus 35 (2004), 83-107.
  • “A Monstrous Body of Writing? Irregularity and the Implicit Unity of Montaigne’s ‘Des boyteux’.” French Forum 29.1 (2004), 1-20.
  • “From Fearsome to Fearful: Panurge’s Satirical Waning.” Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, VI, eds. Ann Scott, Cynthia Kosso (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002), 206-37.
  • “La mémoire défaillante de Montaigne: Un stratagème judicieux?” Cincinnati Romance Review, XIX (2000), 102-11.
  • “Le Moyen de parvenir de François Béroalde de Verville: Une encyclopédie anti-encyclopédique.” Cincinnati Romance Review, XIV (1995), 8-16.

Award:

  • Bernard H. Stern Professor in Humor Studies (2007-2009)