Contact Information

Office: 3113 JFSB

Phone: 422-6554

Email: bob_hudson@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses :
Fren 202 "Intro to French Literature"
Fren/Ital 317 "French & Italian Cinema"
Fren 340 "Intro to Literary Analysis"
Fren 361 "French Civilization to 1715"
Fren 452 "Humanism and Reform in Renaissance France"
Fren 453/Honrs 303 "Prose in Renaissance France: Rabelais, Marguerite, Montaigne"
Fren 454 "Lyrical Lyon: Cradle of Renaissance French Verse"
WS 351 "Early Modern European Women Writers"

Biography:

I enjoy cooking, traveling, running and following Los Angeles-based sports teams.

Recent Publications: - "Clément Marot and the 'Invention' of the French Sonnet: Innovating the Lyrical Imperative in Renaissance France." Anthropoetics 14.2 (Winter 2009) - "Challenging Gallicism: The Role of Hircan’s Anti-feminist Rhetoric in Marguerite’s Heptaméron (VII & XLIX)." Utah Foreign Language Review XVIII (2010): 41-53 - "Mouchette and the Sacrificial Scene: Bresson's Cinematic Anthropology." Anthropoetics 15.1 (Fall 2009) - Various encyclopedia articles treating “Maurice Scève” and "Clément Marot" (Literary Encyclopedia) and “16th-century Lyonnais Humanism,” “François Rabelais,” “Marguerite de Navarre” and the “Valois Dynasty” (IEMA)

Current Projects: - Book-length manuscript treating the poetic influence of Clément Marot on the lyrical verse of Renaissance Lyon - Article on Maurice Scève, Marot and the Gallic eclogue - Article on poet Gérard de Nerval’s mythical obsession with Valois France and eventual adoption of the sonnet

Degrees: BA, French, Brigham Young U., 2004
MA, French Studies, Brigham Young U., 2005
PhD, CPhil, French and Francophone Studies, U. of California, Los Angeles, 2008
~Doctoral Dissertation: "The Petrarchian Lyrical Imperative: An Anthropology of the Sonnet in Renaissance France, 1536-1552"

Interests:

Renaissance/Reformation France; 16th-c. Lyon and the Valois court of Francis I; Clément Marot; Marguerite de Navarre; Gallicism; Imitation theory; Lyrical, Devotional and Pastoral verse; French & Italian cinema