DIRECTORY INFORMATION
farquhar@vt.edu
EDUCATION
PhD The Johns Hopkins University, 1988.
TEACHING INTERESTS
Renaissance literature and theater of the 16-17th centuries, law and
literature,
language, cultural studies, and critical theory.
FRENCH COURSES RECENTLY TAUGHT
CURRENT PEDAGOGICAL PROJECT
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Renaissance ethics, gender, theories of the emotions, legal discourse
and
the academy. Rhetoric and hermeneutics in the Essais of Michel
de
Montaigne: I have just completed a book entitled The Dance of
Ethics in
Montaigne's Essais.
CURRENT SCHOLARLY PROJECT
A book-length study of humanist debates centering on the emotions in
the
Palace Academy of Henry III in late 16th century France.
<>PUBLICATIONS
"Vera Philosophia and Law in Montaigne's 'De la cruaute.'" Montaigne and the Question of Ethics. Ed. Zahi Zalloua. Spec. issue of L'Esprit Créateur XLVI, 1 (2006): 41-51.
"On Civility: the Model of Sparta in Montaigne's
'Defence
de Seneque et de Plutarque.'" French Literature Series XXXIII
(2006):
1-18.
"'Toutes passions mises en arrière...' The
Emotions
in Legal Perspective: Montaigne and the Palace Academy at Blois." Modern
Language Notes 120:1 (Jan.2005): 124-140.
"Montaigne and a Tacitean Discourse." The Classical Heritage in
France. Ed. Gerald Sandy. Studies in Intellectual
History Series. Leiden.
Netherlands: E.J. Brill Publishers, 2002. 187-218.
"Montaigne and the Law: 'De l'experience.'" Montaigne
and Ethics. Ed. Patrick Henry. Spec. issue of Montaigne
Studies XIV (2002): 39-50.
"Montaigne et la théologie naturelle: herméneutique,
religion
et politique," Bulletin de la Société des Amis de
Montaigne 4 (1996): 17-28.
"Essai II, 31: De la colère," in Kenneth Lloyd-Jones, "Translation or Interpretation?" Romance Languages Annual VIII (1996): xi-xiii.
"Irony and the Ethics of Self-Portraiture in Montaigne's 'De la praesumption,'" Sixteenth-Century Journal , XXVI 4(1995): 793-805.
"Venus Unveiled: A Reading of Montaigne's 'Sur des vers de Virgile,'" Of History . Ed. Steven Rendall. Montaigne Studies: VI: 1-2 (Oct. 1994): 203-220.
"From Venus to Venality: Legal Hermeneutics and Montaigne's Use of the Example in I:21-23." Montaigne and the Gods: The Mythological Key to the Essays. Ed. Daniel Martin. Amherst, MA: Hestia Press,1993, 121-30.
"Les tactiques du scepticisme dans 'l'Apologie de Raimond Sebond.'"Bulletin de la Société des Amis de Montaigne 7e série, v. 23-4 (janvier-juin 1991): 19-43.