Academic Work

PUBLICATIONS

Books and edited volumes

  • The Lying Mirror: The First-Person Stance and Sixteenth-Century Writing (Geneva: Droz, 2012). 334 pages
  • Wittgenstein: theory, literature. Vol. 34.3 (November 2011). Special issue of Paragraph, ed. JS Helgeson, with introduction and one article by the editor. 155 pages
  • Harmonie divine et subjectivité poétique chez Maurice Scève (Geneva: Droz, 2001) (Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance, 349). 151 pages

Articles

  • « Scève de mort à vie. Quelques “relectures” de Scève (Ronsard, Ashbery) », in Le Flanchec. Vân Dung, Clément, Michèle, Pouey-Mounou, Anne-Pascale, eds., Maurice Scève. Le poète en quête d’un Langage (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2019), p. 481-494
  • ‘Solemn Resonances: The Incomplete Monument and the Posthumous Soundscape’, Paragraph 41.1 (2018), 79-93
  • ‘Poetic deictics and extra-textural reference (Mallarmé, Scève, Ronsard, Du Bellay)’ Nottingham French Studies. Festschrift for Stephen Bamforth, Nottingham French Studies 56.3 (2017), 351-65
  • ‘Rabelais, Pantagruelion et le je hybride: l’exemple du Tiers Livre’. Acts of Montréal Rabelais conference, (Geneva: Droz, 2017) 473-480
  • ‘Is the Author Responsible?: Artistic Agency in Humanist and Antihumanist Perspectives’ in Early Modern Humanism and Postmodern Antihumanism in Dialogue (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016) 1-25
  • ‘Others’ Dreams, Others’ Minds in Descartes’s Meditations, in Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture, edited by Ita McCarthy, Kirsti Sellevold, and Olivia Smith (Oxford: Legenda, 2016), ch. 6
  • ‘Reading Notes: David Rudrum on Stanley Cavell.’ Paragraph, Paragraph 39.3 (2016) 358-67
  • ‘Lexical concepts and historical reading: on the history of SELF’. Paragraph 37.1 (2014) 126-142
  • ‘La poésie comme imitation, la poésie comme action : Maurice Scève’, Fabula / Les colloques, Délie, du canzoniere au temple d’érudition. 12 juin 2013 (http://www.fabula.org/colloques/document1943.php)
  • ‘Poetry of France’ (medieval to early modern). In R. Greene (ed.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012) 506-11
  • ‘What Cannot Be Said: Notes on Early French Wittgenstein Reception’. Paragraph 34.3 (2011) 338-57. Special issue entitled Wittgenstein, Theory, Literature, edited by James Helgeson
  • ‘Introduction’. Paragraph 34.3 (2011) 287-300. Special issue entitled Wittgenstein, Theory, Literature, edited by James Helgeson
  • ‘Sixteenth-Century Poetry’, Cambridge History of French Literature. In William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond, Emma Wilson (eds.) (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011) 196-203
  • ‘Théories de la musique et de ses rapports avec la poésie’. In Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes, 1520-1600, ed. E. Kushner. (Amsterdam: Benjamin, 2010) 266-84
  • ‘Who is the “I” in Early Modern Poetry? Marc-Antoine Muret on Poetic Action’. Nottingham French Studies, Volume 49.3 (Autumn 2010) 15-27
  • ‘Alter Ipse, Identification and Histories of the Self’. Nottingham French Studies (special issue: ‘Identification before Freud’), Volume 47.3 (Autumn 2008) 13-23
  • ‘Words in the Air: Thaumaste, Nazdecabre, and the Question of Perspicuous Signs’. Esprit généreux, esprit pantagruélique (Festschrift for François Rigolot) (Geneva: Droz, 2008) 177-95
  • ‘Early Modernity Without the Self: Notes on Anachronism and the First Person’. Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 29 (2007) 29-39
  • ‘Harmony, Anamorphosis and the “Conceptual Scheme”’ Romanic Review, 96.2 (March 2005) 127-53
  • Ce que j’entends par ces symboles Pythagoricques: Rabelais on meaning and intention’. Etudes Rabelaisiennes, 42 (2003) 75-100
  • Chantant Orphée: Lyrisme et orphisme dans la Délie de Maurice Scève’. Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, 59.1 (1997) 13-28
  • Presque Rien: Mallarmé’s Objects’. Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 25.1-2 (1996) 100-18 

Currently in press

  • ‘Qui agit en poésie ?’ in Poetry as Event/La poésie comme événement (ENS-Ulm, 12 June 2009. Paris: Presses de l’ENS, 2012), in press, 15 pages. (Keynote speaker: Alain Badiou)
  • ‘Scève de mort à vie : quelques « relectures » de Scève (Ronsard, Ashbery)’. Acts of the 2016 Sorbonne conference (Paris: Garnier, likely 2017)

Reviews

  • Review: Phillip John Usher, Isabelle Fernbach (eds.). Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance (Romanic Review, forthcoming)
  • Review: Kate van Orden, Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe. H-France, v.16, no. 206 (2016). (http://www.h-france.net/vol16reviews/vol16no206helgeson.pdf)
  • Review: Bruno Petey-Girard, ed., François Habert, poète français (1508 ?-1562?). French Studies, 70.2 (2016) 251-52
  • Review: Frédéric Tinguely, Le Voyageur aux mille tours: Les ruses de l’écriture du monde à la Renaissance. French Studies, 69.2 (2015) 240-41
  • Review: Philippe Desportes, Phraséologie oratoire, suivi des Lettres amoureuses. Ed. François Rouget. Renaissance Quarterly, 2014, 1450-51
  • Review: Richard Scholar and Alexis Tadié (eds.) Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800. French Studies, 67.2 (2013) 257-58
  • Review: Kathryn Banks, Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance: French Love Lyric and Natural-Philosophical Poetry. French Studies, 65.2 (2011) 239-40.
  • Review: John D. Lyons and Kathleen Wine, eds. Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France. Renaissance Quarterly, 63.1 (2010) 284-86
  • Review: Ullrich Langer, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006). Philosophy in Review, 27.5 (2007) 355-57
  • Review: Eva Kushner, Pontus de Tyard et son œuvre poétique. French Studies, 57.3 (2003) 370
  • Review: Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani (ed). Plaisir de l’épopée. French Studies, 57.2 (2003) 283