Kathleen Long, Professor of French Literature, received her PhD. in Renaissance Studies from Yale University. Her work is primarily focused on interdisciplinary approaches to French Renaissance culture, relative to questions of gender, monstrosity, and violence, beginning with her book on imitations of Ovids Metamorphoses in the Renaissance. The collection of essays she edited on masculinity in early modern France continues this line of inquiry, as does her book on hermaphrodites in the Renaissance. Her interests have turned recently to the subject of religiously motivated violence, and her second edited collection, Religious Differences in France, explores the history of religious division. Courses that Professor Long has taught and co-developed include: Religious Violence in France, He Said, She Said: The Battle of the Sexes in Medieval and Renaissance Writing, Monstrous Forms, as well as the French Renaissance survey course. Professor Long is currently preparing an edited volume on alchemy in early modern France, and plans to continue her work on the history of religious violence, from the Crusades to the present day.
Publications
Books:
Another Reality: Metamorphosis and the Imagination in the Poetry of Ovid, Petrarch, and Ronsard (1991)
Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe (2006)
Edited Volumes:
High Anxiety: Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France (2002)
Religious Differences in France: Past and Present (2006)
Selected Articles:
Hermaphrodites Newly Discovered: The Cultural Monsters of Early Modern France, in Monster Theory: Reading Culture, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Minnesota, 1996)
Narrative Disruption and the Representation of Violence in the Works of Thodore Agrippa dAubign, in Repossessions, ed. Tim Murray and Alan Smith (Minnesota, 1998)
Improper Perspective: Anamorphosis in the Works of Thodore Agrippa dAubign, in Medievalia, special issue on Protest and Lament, ed. Dora Polachek (1999)
The Engendering of Masculinity: Jacques Duval on Hermaphrodites, in High Anxiety: Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France (Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies)
"Child in the Water: The Spectacle of Violence in Thodore Agrippa dAubign's Les Tragiques," in Representations of Trauma in French and Francophone Literature, ed. Nicole Simek and Zahi Zalloua (special issue of Dalhousie French Studies, Winter 2007).
Research Interests:
History of Science
Gender Studies
French Renaissance Literature and Culture
History of Religion
Recent Courses:
He Said, She Said: The Battle of the Sexes in Medieval and Renaissance Writing
Religious Violence in France
Monsters A-X (Aristotle to the X-Files)
Ovid in the Renaissance
