Specialization:
French and Italian; Comparative Literature
Languages: French, Latin, Spanish
Education:
Doctorate, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium),1983; Ph.D., University of Michigan University,1989.
Bio:
Research:
Renaissance literature and culture, Aging studies, rhetoric, Belgian literature in French.
Publications:
Marie Gevers et la nature (Académie Royale de Langue et Littérature françaises de Belgique; Palais des Académies, 1983), an edition of Marie Gevers. Correspondance (Labor : 1986); Maurice Scève et la pensée chrétienne (Droz, 1992); Le Poète architecte en France. Constructions d'un imaginaire monarchique (Champion, 2003), Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance. Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne (Brill, 2013).
Courses:
Renaissance literature and culture, the discovery of the New World, creativity, theater, poetry, and Belgian literature in French.