Faculty Guide

Title

Professor of French and Comparative Literature

Comparative Literature
European Cultural Studies
Romance Studies

Expertise

Late Medieval and Renaissance poetry, prose, and philosophy. Italian and Comparative Literature

Awards and Honors

Michael Walzer 56 Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000 - 2001)

Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (internal award) (1996 - 1997)

Jacob Javits National Graduate Fellowship Award (1986)

Courses Taught

ECS	100b	European Cultural Studies Proseminar: Making of European Modernity
EL	94a	Experiential Learning Practicum
FREN	110a	Cultural Representations
FREN	111a	The Republic
FREN	122b	The Renaissance: When France Became France
FREN	136b	Necessity and Freedom in French Literature
FREN	142b	City and the Book
FREN	186b	Literature and Politics
USEM	39a	On the Road from Homer to Ridley Scott

Scholarship

Randall, Michael. "Sur la moralisation de Nature dans le Roman de la Rose moralise." Molinet dans son temps. Ed. Jean Devaux. Brepols, 2013 (forthcoming)

Randall, Michael. "The Master Thinkers and Humanist Freedom." A Humanist Response to Anti-Humanism. Ed. Jan Miernowski., 2013 (forthcoming)

Randall, Michael. ""Le Naufrage de la pucelle" de Jean Molinet: un remake de la rébellion de 1477?"." On Renaissance Literature. Ed. Bernd Renner and Phillip Usher. Paris: Classiques-Garnier, 2011 (forthcoming)

Randall, Michael. "La Satire dans tous ses états: « le meslange satyricque» à la renaissance. Etudes réunies et éditées par Bernd Renner." by Bern Renner, editor. Renaissance et Réforme 2011 (forthcoming)

Randall, Michael. "Sur la ville trop humaine chez Rabelais." Ville humaniste/ ville politique. Ed. Denis Crouzet, Elisabeth Pavane Crouzet, and Philippe Desans. Paris:, 2011 (forthcoming)

Randall, Michael. "Sur la poetique des Rhétoriqueurs dans le Cinquieseme Livre." Rabelais ou "les adventures des gens curieulx. Geneva: Droz, 2008 (forthcoming)

Randall, Michael. ""On the Magical Statues in Jean Lemaire de Belges: Temple d'honneur et de vertus (1503)." Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance. Ed. P. Usher and I. Fernbach. Cambridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2012. 59-72.

Randall, Michael. "“On Gargantuan Individualism"." Approaches to Teaching Rabelais. Ed. Todd Reeser. New York, New York: Modern Language Association, 2011. 130-34.

Randall, Michael. "Molinet's Faictz et dictz." (2009): <Electronic catalogue of Gordon Collection>.

Randall, Michael. ""On the Empire of the Senses in Cretin's Debat entre deux dames." Esprit Genereux, Esprit Pantagruelique. Ed. R. Leushuis and Z. Zalloua. Geneva: Droz, 2008. 75-92.

Randall, Michael. The Gargantuan Polity: On the Individual and the Community in Renaissance France. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

Randall, Michael. "In the Mood for Love: Teaching the Heptameron in a Humanities Class." Approaches To Teaching the Heptameron. Modern Language Association, 2007. 170-80.

Randall, Michael. On the Empire of the Senses in Cretin's Débat des deux dames. Proc. of Esprit pantagruelique: in honor of François Rigolot. Geneva: Droz, 2007.

Randall, Michael. "Sword and Subject in Du Haillan's Histoire de France." Yale French Studies (2006): 176-87.

Randall, Michael. "Intoduction." Pantagruel and Gargantua. Ed. F. Rabelais. Barnes and Noble, 2005

Randall, Michael. "On the Evolution of Toads in the French Renaissance." Renaissance Quarterly 57. 1 (2004): 124-64.

Randall, Michael. "La Grande Rhétorique et la théologie." Les Poétiques des XVe et XVIe siècles en Italie et en France. Ed. Perrine Galand-Hallyn. Geneva: Droz, 2001. 238-57.

Randall, Michael. "The Virgin and the Cosmographer: On Notions of Sapce in Jean Parmentier's Chants Royaux,"." Modern Language Notes 113. 1998 (1998): 897-914.

Randall, Michael. "Des Fatrasies surréalistes?." Littérature 108. Décembre 1997 (1997): 35-50.

Randall,Michael. Building Resemblance: Analogical Imagery in the Early French Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.