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Antonia SzabariAssistant Professor of French and Italian and Comparative LiteratureContact Information E-mail: szabari@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-3174 Office: THH 155B LINKS Curriculum Vitae |
Education
- Ph.D. , Johns Hopkins University, 2005
Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
- Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 08/15/2004-
Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
My research focuses on early modern French literature and, in a broader fashion, on the culture of early modern Europe. I believe that the study of the early modern period is akin to anthropological research in which one interprets signs of another culture while relying on and reshaping one's own conceptual tools. My study of French religious and political satire entitled "Less Rightly Said: Readers and Scandals in Sixteenth-Century France" is forthcoming from Stanford University Press in 2009. "Less Rightly Said" examines a new form of publicity that arises with the printed polemical literature during a period marked by religious differences and civil wars. It examines the littérature de colportage side by side with humanistic satires to show that the manipulation of elite humanistic scholarship allows polemicists to create communities of readers.
I am currently working on a book-length project tentatively entitled "Alikes," which looks at perceptions of the boundaries between humans, animals, and plants in a variety pf discourses in early modern Europe. Other projects underway include article-length studies on French books about travel to Turkey in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
I teach undergraduate classes on French Renaissance literature, travel literature, cartography, and animals.
My graduate teaching focuses on conceptions of the animal, both in a modern and in an early modern context, and on non-theological, discursive forms of religious culture, especially as they contribute to the formation of "publicness" or the diversification of early modern societies (converging around problems such as religious satire, mystical "modus loquendi," and Bible translations into the vernacular).
I have been the recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the DAAD.
Research Keywords
Early modern French Literature, the culture of reading, injurious speech and publicity, the literature of travel, religion as discourse, and the animal / human boundary in early modern culture.
Publications
Book
- Szabari, A. (2009). Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France. Stanford University Press.
Book Chapter
- Szabari, A. (2008). 'Scandal': The Past and Present of Sensitivity in "Paul and the Philosophers". Stanford University Press.
- Szabari, A. (2006). The Scandal of Religion: Luther and Public Speech. pp. 122-136. New York: Political Theologies/Fordham University Press.
- Szabari, A. (2002). Le faisible qui ne se fait pas: la fantaisie évangélique de l'écriture chez Honorat Rambaud. pp. p. 183-207. Lyon: Lyon et L'illustration de la langue française à la Renaissance/Presses de L'ENS.
Journal Article
- Szabari, A. (2008). The Way of Imperfection: Laughter and Mysticism in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron. French Forum. Vol. 33 (3)
- Szabari, A. (2005). Rabelais Parrhesiastes: The Rhetoric of Insult and Rabelais's Cynical Mask. Modern Langauge Notes/Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. p. S84-123.
- Szabari, A. (2001). parler seulement de moi: The Disposition of the Subject in Montaigne's Essay 'De l'art de conferer'. Modern Langauge Notes/Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. p. 1001-1024.
Honors and Awards
- Radcliffe Institute, Fellow, 2006-2007
- USC Innovative Teaching Award, Awarded for the development of course on secularization and secularism in France and the US , 2006-2007
- USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award, Individual Research Grant, 2005-2006
Service to the Profession
Conferences Organized
- co-organizer, The Spiritual Life of Plants, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 2008-2009
- organizer, respondent, The Memory of Religious Troubles in Sixteenth-Century France, Renaissance Society of America, panel, 2007-2008
Professional Memberships
- RSA, 2006-2008
- MLA, 2002-2008