Contact Information

Office: 3113 JFSB

Phone: 422-6554

E-mail: bob_hudson@byu.edu

Courses Taught:
Fren 202 Intro to French Literature
Fren 217/ Ital 217 French & Italian Cinema
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"

"Lyon est sa patrie. Rabelais est son père […] qui ne connaît Lyon ni Rabelais ignore deux grandes choses en ce monde." -Jean de Boyssonné

Recent Publications:

- "Clément Marot and the 'Invention' of the French Sonnet: Innovating the Lyrical Imperative in Renaissance France." Anthropoetics 14.2 (Winter 2009)

- "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 project treating lyrical poetry in the place of Renaissance Lyon (Marot, Scève, Labé, Magny, Pernette, Tyard), including various articles on individual poets (Marot/Scève)

- Article on François Rabelais and the cultural/historical significance of the church bell

- Article on poet Gérard de Nerval’s mythical obsession with Valois France and eventual adoption of the sonnet

Doctoral Dissertation:

"The Petrarchian Lyrical Imperative: An Anthropology of the Sonnet in Renaissance France, 1536-1552" (UCLA, 2008)

Degrees

BA, French, Brigham Young U., 2004
MA, French Studies, Brigham Young U., 2005
PhD, French and Francophone Studies, U. of California, Los Angeles, 2008

Interests

- Literature of the French Renaissance (early 16th century: Rabelais, Marguerite, Marot, Scève, Labé, Pre-Pléiade Poetics, Renaissance Lyon)
- French Lyrical Tradition (Petrarchism, Neoplatonism, Sonnet, Poetics)
- Sociology and Anthropology (Generative Anthropology, the Sacred, the Gift, Rite and Ritual)
- French & Italian Film (Poetic Realism, Neorealism, New Wave, Bresson, Fellini, Melville)