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Nicolas Russell

  • Associate Professor, Global Studies (French program)

Education

  • PhD, French, University of Virginia, 2003
  • MA, French, University of Virginia, 1995
  • BA, French and Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1993

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
FRENCH 383-001 Honors Seminar: Fighting for Truth, Justice, and Freedom TR 4pm-5:15pm
FRENCH 429-001 Royalty, Reason, and Revolution: The Golden Age of French Culture TR 2:30pm-3:45pm
FRENCH 429G-001 Royalty, Reason, and Revolution: The Golden Age of French Culture TR 2:30pm-3:45pm

Research Interests

  • Early Modern French Literature and Culture
  • Memory Studies
  • Conceptual History
  • History of Emotions

Biographical Sketch

Courses Taught

  • Views of France: Learning French Culture Through Cuisine
  • Approaches to Poetry and Fiction
  • Royalty, Reason, and Revolution: The Golden Age of French Culture
  • Reaction and Innovation: French Culture of the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • Love, Marriage, and Friendship in Early Modern France
  • Introduction to Food Studies

Selected Publications

Russell, Nicolas C. “How Memory Constitutes Nations in Louis Le Roy’s Vicissitudes” Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century French Literature Ed. Yandell, Cathy, and Laguardia, David. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. (2015): 149-60.
Russell, Nicolas C. Transformations of Memory and Forgetting in Sixteenth-Century France: Marguerite de Navarre, Pierre de Ronsard, Michel de Montaigne Newark: : University of Delaware Press. 2011.
Russell, Nicolas C. “Construction et représentation de la mémoire collective dans les entrées triomphales au XVIe siècle” Renaissance and Reformation 32.2 (2009): 53-72.
. French Ceremonial Entries in the Sixteenth Century: Event, Image, Text Ed. Russell, Nicolas C., and Visentin, Hélène. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Victoria University in the University of Toronto. 2007.
Russell, Nicolas C. “Collective Memory before and after Halbwachs” The French Review 79.54 (2006): 792-804.
Russell, Nicolas C. “Steps Toward a Rhetoric of Judgment in Montaigne’s ‘De Democritus et Heraclitus’ (I,50)” Neophilologus 85.2 (2001): 177-92.