Carla Freccero Professor and Chair, Literature 236 Kresge College University of California, Santa Cruz freccero@ucsc.edu (831) 459-3532 messages: (831) 459-2781

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Queer/Early/Modern, Duke University Press, 2005.

Popular Culture: An Introduction. NYU Press, 1999.

Premodern Sexualities. New York: Routledge, 1996. Co-edited with Louise Fradenburg.

Premodern Sexualities in Europe. Special Issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 1:4, 1995. Co-edited with Louise Fradenburg.

Father Figures: Genealogy and Narrative Structure in Rabelais. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Articles:

"Archives in the Fiction: The Rhetoric of the Law in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron." In Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe, ed. Lorna Hutson and Victoria Kahn. Yale University Press.

"Identification and Desire: Ovidian Subjectivities in Petrarch and Louise Labé." In Ovid and the Body in the Renaissance, ed. Goran Stanivukovic. New York: Routledge.

"Louise Labé's Feminist Poetics." In Contemporary Readings of French Renaissance Texts, ed. J. O'Brien and M. Quainton. Liverpool University Press.

Forthcoming. "Sexuality." Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul Grendler and Margaret King. Charles Scribner's Sons.

"Toward a Psychoanalytics of Historiography: Michel de Certeau's Early Modernity." In South Atlantic Quarterly.

1998. "Feminist Literary Criticism." In The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, ed. Mankiller, Mink, Navarro, Smith, and Steinem, 222-224. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

1997. "Historical Violence, Censorship, and the Serial Killer: The Case of American Psycho." diacritics 27.2 (Summer): 44-58. Special Issue: Censorship, ed. George Van den Abbeele.

1997. "Psychoanalysis, Montaigne and the Melancholic Subject of Humanism." Montaigne Studies 9: 17-34. Special Issue: Montaigne and Psychoanalysis, ed. Lawrence Kritzman.

1996. "Gender Ideologies, Women Writers, and the Problem of Patronage in Early Modern Italy and France: Issues and Frameworks." In Reading the Renaissance, ed. Jonathan Hart, 65-74, 225-228. New York and London: Garland Publishing.

1996. "Introduction: Caxton, Foucault, and the Pleasures of History." With Louise Fradenburg. In Premodern Sexualities, ed. Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero, 1-12. New York: Routledge.

1996. "Preface." With Louise Fradenburg. In Premodern Sexualities, ed. Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero, vii-xii. New York: Routledge.

1995. "Bodies and Pleasures: Early Modern Interrogations." Romanic Review 86.2 (March): 379-390. Special Issue: Institutionalizing Sex and Gender in Medieval Discourse, ed. Kathryn Gravdal.

1995. "Feminism, Rabelais, and the Hill/Thomas Hearings: Return to a Scene of Reading." In François Rabelais: Critical Assessments, ed. Jean-Claude Carron, 73-82. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

1995. "From Amazon to Court Lady: Generic Hybridization in Boccaccio's Teseida." Comparative Literature Studies 32.2: 226-243.

1995. "Introduction: The Pleasures of History." With Louise Fradenburg. In Premodern Sexualities in Europe, ed. Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero. Special Issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 1.4 : 371-384.

1994. "Cannibalism, Homophobia, Women: Montaigne's 'Des Cannibales' and 'De L'Amitié.'" In Women, 'Race,' and Writing in the Early Modern Period, ed. Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker, 73-83. New York: Routledge.

1994. "Our Lady of MTV: Madonna's 'Like A Prayer.'" In Feminism and Postmodernism, ed. Margaret Ferguson and Jennifer Wicke, 179-199. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

1994. "Patriarchy and the Maternal Text: The Case of Marguerite de Navarre." In Renaissance Women Writers: French Texts/American Contexts, ed. Anne Larsen and Colette Winn, 130-140. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

1994. "Practicing Queer Philology with Marguerite de Navarre: Nationalism and the Castigation of Desire." In Queering the Renaissance, ed. Jonathan Goldberg, 107-123. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

1993. "Unruly Bodies: Popular Culture Challenges to the Regime of Body Backlash." Visual Anthropology Review (Fall ): 74-81. Special Issue, ed. Sarah Williams.

1993. "Unwriting Lucretia: 'Heroic Virtue' and the Heptaméron." In Heroic Virtue, Comic Infidelity: Reassessing Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron, ed. Dora Polacheck, 77-89. Amherst, MA: Hestia Press.

1993. "Voices of Subjection: Maternal Sovereignty and Filial Resistance in and around Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron." Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 5.1 (Winter): 147-157.

1992. "Marguerite de Navarre and the Politics of Maternal Sovereignty." Cosmos 7: 132-149. Special Issue: Women and Sovereignty, ed. Louise Fradenburg.

1992. "The Materialist Critique of Psychoanalysis." In Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Critical Dictionary, ed. Elizabeth Wright, 244-249. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell.

1992. "Our Lady of MTV: Madonna's 'Like a Prayer.'" boundary 2 19.2 (Summer ):163-183. Special Issue: Feminism and Postmodernism, eds. Margaret Ferguson and Jennifer Wicke.

1992. "Politics and Aesthetics in Castiglione's Il Cortegiano: Book III and the Discourse on Women." In Creative Imitation, ed. David Quint, 251-271. Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies.

1991. "Economy, Woman, and Renaissance Discourse." In Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance, ed. Marilyn Migiel and Juliana Schiesari, 192-208. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

1991. "June Jordan." In African American Writers, ed. Valerie Smith, 245-261. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

1991. "Rape's Disfiguring Figures: Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron, Day 1: 10." In Rape and Representation, ed. Lynn Higgins and Brenda Silver, 227-247. New York: Columbia University Press.

1991. "Rewriting the Rhetoric of Desire: Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron." In Contending Kingdoms: Historical, Psychological, and Feminist Approaches to the Literature of Sixteenth-Century England and France, ed. Marie-Rose Logan and Peter Rudnytsky, 298-312. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

1990. "Notes of a Post 'Sex Wars' Theorize." In Conflicts in Feminism, ed. Marianne Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller, 305-325. New York: Routledge.

1990. "Talking Commodities: Woman in a Renaissance Text." Rethinking Marxism (Fall-Winter): 238-250.

1989. "1527: Margaret of Navarre." In A New History of French Literature, ed. Denis Hollie, 145-148. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

1986. "The 'Instance' of the Letter: Woman in the Text of Rabelais." In Rabelais's Incomparable Book: Essays on His Art, ed. Raymond La Charité, 45-55. Lexington, KY: French Forum.

1986. "The 'Instance' of the Letter: Woman in the Text of Rabelais." Literature and Psychology 32.4 (October): 18-29.

1985. "Damning Haughty Dames: Panurge and the 'Haulte Dame de Paris' (Pantagruel 14)." Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 15.1 (Spring): 57-67.

1985. "Rabelais's 'Abbaye de Thélème': Utopia as Supplement." Esprit Créateur 25.1 (Spring): 73-87.

1985. "The Other and the Same: The Image of the Hermaphrodite in Rabelais." In Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe, ed. Margaret Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, and Nancy Vickers, 145-158. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Book Reviews:

1998. "June Jordan's Technical Difficulties." African American Review 32.3 (Fall): 504-506.

1996. "Lesbian Erotics, edited by Karla Jay." Journal of the History of Sexuality 7.1 (July): 134-137.

Translations:

"A Long Short Story: Montaigne's Brevity" by Antoine Compagnon. Yale French Studies: "Montaigne: Essays in Reading," 64. Ed. Gérard Defaux.

"The First Eye" by Alain Buisine. Yale French Studies: "Towards A Theory of Description," 61 (261-275). Ed. Jeffrey Kittay.

Other:

1997. "Chik Tek." Catalog Statement: "Chik Tek '97: Women Artists Defining Technology." San Jose Museum of Art. Art-Tech Gallery.

COURSES:

Early Modern France; Renaissance Woman/Renaissance Man: Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe; Queering the Renaissance; Early Modern Masculinities; Identity and Alterity in Pre- and Early Modernity; Early Modern Travel Narratives; Marguerite de Navarre; Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism; French and Francophone Philosophies of Difference.

INTERESTS:

Early Modern French and Italian History, Literature, and Culture; Queer Theory; Feminist Theory; European/New World Encounters; Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Pre- and Early Modernity; U.S. Popular Culture and Cultural Studies.

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