Associate Professor of French & Comp. Lit.
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 (Forthcoming, Ashgate, 2008).
Trash: Essays in Popular Culture (Forthcoming, Xlibris, 2007).
“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).
“On the Male Urge: Masculinity in Rabelais and Brantôme.” in Entre les hommes, edited by Todd Reeser and Lewis Seifert. (forthcoming, University of Delaware Press, 2008)
“Interrogation and the Performance of Truth in the Registre Criminel du Châtelet de Paris, 1389-1392.” In “Meaning and its Objects,” 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.
On the History of the Subject in Hegel, Nietzsche, Foucault, Butler, and Žižek (book manuscript).
The Culture of Memory: Polemics, Propaganda, and Personal Writing in the French Wars of Religion (book manuscript).
