Dr. Stephen Murphy

Associate Professor of French

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Office: Greene 509

Phone: (336) 758-5492

E-mail: murphy@wfu.edu

Curriculum vitae

Education

• Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1987
• M.A., Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981
• B.A. summa cum laude, English, Canisius College, 1979

Research Interests

• Literature of the French and Italian Renaissance
• Poetry and Poetics

Courses Taught

• French 213: Introduction to French Literature
• French 315: Introduction to French Studies
• French 216: Studies in French Literature and Culture: Literature and Travel; Literature and War
• French 363: Trends in French Poetry
• French 370: Seminar: Autobiography and Self-Portrait

Honors and Awards

• William C. Archie Grants
• Z. Smith Reynolds Research Grant
  

Representative Publications

• The Gift of Immortality. Myths of Power and Humanist Poetics (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1997)
• [Editor, with introduction and notes:] Marsilio Ficino, Commentaire sur le Banquet de Platon, French trans. Jean de La Haye (1546) (Paris : H. Champion, 2004)
• “Guillaume Briçonnet,” in Centuriae latinae: Mélanges M.-M. de La Garanderie, ed. Colette Nativel (Geneva: Droz, 2006)
• “Maro mutatus in melius? The Form and Fortune of Lelio Capilupi’s In Feminas,” in Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Bonnensis (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2006)
• “Il paesaggio virgiliano et la sua fortuna parodica ,” in Mediterra-noesis, ed. Roberta Morosini and Cristina Perissinotto (Rome: Salerno Editore, 2007)
• “Pontus de Tyard et le ficinisme tardif,” in Pontus de Tyard, errances et enracinement, ed. François Rouget (Paris : H. Champion, 2008)
• “Philology and Torture,” forthcoming in Acta Conventus Neo-Latini, Budapest