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MagnifyCécile Alduy, PhD
Assistant Professor of French and Italian; Forum on Contemporary Europe Research Affiliate
110 Pigott Hall
Building 260
Stanford, CA 94305-2010
Research Interests
Renaissance Literature; Poetry and Poetics (Renaissance and Contemporary); Poetic Collections (Scève, Ronsard, Du Bellay); Poets writing Prose (Jaccottet, Bonnefoy, Reda) ; Concepts of Self and Nation (Montaigne, Rabelais, Ronsard); Contemporary French Cinema.
A former student at the École normale Supérieure rue d'Ulm, Professor Alduy received her Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Reims in June 2003, where she wrote her dissertation on Renaissance poetry. Entitled "Nation, Self, and the Lure of Unity. Poetics and Genesis of a New French Genre, the "Amours" (France, 1544-1560)", her dissertation examined how the poetics of love sonnets collections, a paradoxical form at once unified and discontinuous, was exploited by the generation of Ronsard and Du Bellay to promote a collective - and nationalist - agenda, that of a "Defense and Illustration of the French Tongue" and its cultural supremacy. From this project derives her upcoming book, The Politics of Love: Poetics and Genesis of the "Amours" in Renaissance France (1549-1560).
Before joining Stanford University, Professor Alduy taught French Literature at Boston University and at the University of Reims (France). She has published a revised critical edition of Maurice Scève's Délie, which complements a number of articles she wrote on this work, and is completing the manuscript for an extensive, annotated bibliography of all things ever written by or about Scève to be published in the "Bibliothèque des écrivains français" collection by Memini Editore in April 2006.
Primarily interested in Poetry and Poetics, both contemporary and from the Renaissance, Professor Alduy stresses philology and contextualization to anchor interpretation in the texture and contexture of the works at hand. She has recently been investigating books by Scève, Ronsard, La Boétie, Montaigne, Bonnefoy or Philippe Jaccottet among others.
Other affiliations
Department of French and Italian
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