David LaGuardia

Title: Associate Profesor of French & Comparative Literature

Office:

Phone: 603 646 2402

Departmental Web site:  David LaGuardia

Medieval and Renaissance Studies Taught

• COLT Love, Desire, Faith, and Individual Identity in Renaissance Literature
• FRIT 22: Medieval and Renaissance Survey

Areas of Research Interest

• 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

Books

• 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 15^th and 16^th 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).

Articles

• “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 15^th and 16^th 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.