Education
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 Ph.D. , Johns Hopkins University, 2005
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
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Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 08/15/2004-
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Description of Research
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
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Antónia Szabari specializes in early modern French literature and, in a broader fashion, in the culture of early modern Europe, with a specific focus on religious difference and cross-cultural influences. She has completed a book-length study of French religious and political satire entitled "Paradoxical Vituperation: Readers and Scandals in Sixteenth-Century France." It is currently under review at Stanford University Press. "Paradoxical Vituperation" 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 and interrogates the role of verbal violence and verbal wit in creating communities of readers.
Szabari's current book project concerns the way in which the boundary between the human being and the animal is negotiated in zoological, philosophical, topographical cosmographical, philological, medical, and literary texts. Other projects underway include an article-length study on French travel books to Turkey in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
She teaches undergraduate classes on French Renaissance literature and travel literature.
Her graduate teaching focuses on theories of the animal, both modern and early modern, and on non-theological, discursive forms of religious culture, especially in the context of the Reformation (converging around problems such as religious satire, mystical "modus loquendi," and Bible translations into the vernacular).
She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the DAAD.
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Research Keywords
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Early modern French Literature, the culture of reading, injurious speech and publicity, the literature of travel, religion as discourse, and the history of secularization.
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Publications
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Book Chapter
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Szabari, A.
(2006).
The Scandal of Religion: Luther and Public Speech. pp. 122-136. New York: Political Theologies/Fordham University Press.
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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.
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Journal Article
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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.
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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.
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Honors and Awards
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Radcliffe Institute, Fellow, 2006-2007
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USC Innovative Teaching Award, Awarded for the development of course on secularization and secularism in France and the US , 2006-2007
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USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award, Individual Research Grant, 2005-2006
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Service to the Profession
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Professional Memberships
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RSA, 2006-2008
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MLA, 2002-2008
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