Nicolas Russell

Associate Professor, Department of 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

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

Research Interests

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

Recent 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. 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. 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.

Russell, Nicolas C., and Visentin, Hélène, eds. French Ceremonial Entries in the Sixteenth Century: Event, Image, Text. 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.