Modern Languages
Katherine Maynard
Associate Professor of French
E-mail: kmaynard2@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782, ext. 7493
Office: Goldstein 228
Education
- B.A., University of Michigan, 1993
- M.A., University of Washington, 1996
- DEA, University of Geneva, 2001
- Ph.D., University of Washington, 2003
Office Hours
M 2:00-3:00, T 3:45-4:30, and by appointment.
Research Interests
- Renaissance and Reformation France
- epic poetry
- nationhood and national identity
Selected Publications
"'Miel empoisonné': Satire and Sickness in Ronsard's Discours des Misères de ce temps." Forthcoming in Renner, Bernd, ed. La satire dans tous ses etats: Le "meslange satyrique" a la Renaissance francaise. Geneva: Librairie Droz. Expected Spring 2009.
"The Faces of Judith: Nationhood and Patronage in La Judit of Guillaume Salluste Du Bartas." Romanic Review 100, no. 1 (January 2009).
"Writing Martyrdom: Agrippa d'Aubigné's Reconstruction of Sixteenth-century Martyrology." Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 30, no. 3 (Summer/Été 2006-7): 29-50.
"To the Point: The Needle, the Sword, and Female Exemplarity in Du Bartas's La Judit." Romance Notes 46, no. 2 (2007): 169-183.
Recent Conference Presentations
"Mémoire éteinte: Ronsard's Franciade and its Places of Amnesia." Accepted for the MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30, 2009.
"Avec la terre on possède la guerre" : The Erasure of Place in Ronsard's Franciade." The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 16-18, 2009.
"Re-visiting the Role of Ronsard's Franciade in Charles IX's 1571 Royal Entry into Paris." The Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Pittsburgh, September 19-21, 2008.
"'Mon naturel ramage': The Regional and National Poetics of Guillaume Salluste du Bartas." The Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, April 3-5, 2008.
"Writing Martyrdom in Agrippa d'Aubigné's Les Tragiques and Histoire Universelle." The New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, March 6-8, 2008.
"Adaptations of Martyrdom: Jean Crespin's Martyrs in Agrippa d'Aubigné's Les Tragiques." The MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30, 2006.
"New Directions in Epic: The Case of La Judit." The Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, March 23-25, 2006.