Cary Howie, Assistant Professor of French Literature, received his B.A. in Literature from Bard College (1997) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University (1999, 2003). He was a Mellon Postdoctoral Associate in Romance Studies at Cornell from 2003 to 2005. His idées fixes include saints, sparkle, sex and style. He writes and teaches about the French and Italian Middle Ages in relation to literary theory, theology, and queer studies.
Publications:
"Vision Beyond Measure: The Threshold of Iacopone's Bedroom," in Troubled Vision, ed. Emma Campbell and Robert Mills (Palgrave 2004).
"As the Saint Turns: Hagiography at the Threshold of the Visible," Exemplaria 17.2 (Fall 2005).
"Rude Theory: The Rough Trade of the Fabliaux," in Comic Provocations, ed. Holly A. Crocker (Palgrave, 2006).
Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (Palgrave, 2007).
Research Interests:
Medieval hagiography and mysticism
Theology and literature
Anachronism
The senses
Queer studies
Recent Courses:
Sense and Style: Nancy and Agamben
Mystics and Mystique
Sad Songs: Medieval Melancholia
Sex In French
Dante and Deviance
Idolatry: Vision and Belief |
