Professor of French & Comparative Literature
Dept. of French and Italian
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
Tel.: (603) 646-2402
E-mail: laguardia@dartmouth.edu
M.A., Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania.
B.A. in Humanities, New College of Florida.
Sixteenth Century French Literature; memoirs, biographies, pamphlets, and propaganda from the French Wars of Religion; first-person narratives; literary and critical theory; the history of subjectivity in philosophy; American popular culture.
Intertextual Masculinities in French Renaissance Literature: Rabelais, Brantôme, and the Cent nouvelles nouvelles (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008).
Trash Culture: Essays in Popular Culture (Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2008).
“Meaning and Its Objects.” Volume of Essays co-edited with Margaret Burland and Andrea Tarnowski. Yale French Studies 110 (Fall, 2006).
Narrative Worlds: Essays on the French Nouvelle in 15th and 16th Century France. Volume of essays co-edited with Gary Ferguson (Tempe: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Arizona State University, 2005).
The Iconography of Power: the French Nouvelle at the End of the Middle Ages (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999).
"Henri III et la propagande de l'obscène." in "Licences et censures poétiques. La littérature érotique et pornographique vernaculaire à la Renaissance," ed, Cécile Alduy. Renaissance, Humanisme, Réforme no. 69 (June 2009), 41-52.
"L' ´Ecriture polymorphe de la masculinité chez Rabelais," "L'Homme en tous genres:Masculinités textuelles," special issues of Itinéraires, ed. Gary Ferguson (2008, number 2), 49-62.
“On the Male Urge: Masculinity in Rabelais and Brantôme.” Entre hommes, edited by Todd Reeser and Lewis Seifert. (forthcoming, University of Delaware Press, 2008), 67-86.
"Biographical Identity and the Being of the Subject: Jean Starobinski's Montaigne en mouvement." Montaigne Studies ed. George Hoffmann, vol. XX, number 1-2 (March, 2008). 145-155.
“Interrogation and the Performance of Truth in the Registre Criminel du Châtelet de Paris, 1389-1392.” In “Meaning and its Objects,” Volume of Essays co-edited with Margaret Burland and Andrea Tarnowski. Yale French Studies 110 (Fall, 2006), 152-162.
“French Renaissance Literature and the Problem of Theory: Alcofribas’s Performance in the Prologue to Gargantua.” EMF 10 (Spring, 2005), 5-38.
“Exemplarity as Misogyny: Variations on the Tale of the One-Eyed Cuckold.” Narrative Worlds: Essays on the French Nouvelle in 15th and 16th Century France (Tempe: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Arizona State University, 2005), 139-158.
“Doctor Rabelais and the Medicine of Scatology.” in Fecal Matters, ed. Jeff Persels and Russell Ganim (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004), 24-37.
“Masculinity and Metaphors of Reading in the Tiers Livre.” “French Masculinities,” special issue of Esprit Créateur, ed. Todd Reeser and Lewis Seifert, Fall, 2003, Vol. XLIII, No. 3, 5-15.
The Culture of Memory: Polemics, Propaganda, and Personal Writing in the French Wars of Religion (book manuscript).
