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Monographs

Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship: From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern France (Ashgate: 2008). 

Essays in journals

     Co-authored with Martin Eisner. “Libido Sciendi: Apuleius, Boccaccio, and the Study of the History of Sexuality.” PMLA 124:3 (2009): 817-37.

         “Presentation of a Newly Discovered Manuscript of La Boétie's Discours de la Servitude volontaire and Hypotheses on the Datation of the BnF Manuscripts.” Montaigne Studies 20 (2008): 185-206.

         “Louis le Roy’s Sympose de Platon and Three Other Renaissance Adaptations of Platonic Eros.” Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006): 406-39.

         “‘That friendship which possesses the soul’: Montaigne Loves La Boétie.” Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Spec. issue of The Journal of Homosexuality 41:3-4 (2001): 5-22.

         “‘Egli s’innamorò del suo valore’: Leone, Bradamante and Ruggiero in the 1532 Orlando Furioso.” Modern Language Notes 115 (2000): 64-79.

         “‘L’Affaire Camus’: An Introduction and some Provocations,” Politics and Culture, 1:4 (2000): <http://laurel.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/>.

Essays in collections

         “Some Notes on the Print History of Illustrated Italian Editions of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass.” Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors. Eds. Louis A. Waldman, Machtelt Israëls, Anthony D’Elia et al. Harvard University Press, 2013. 713-716.

         “The Friendship of the Wicked in Novella 12 of Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron.” Discourses and Representations of Friendship, 1500-1700. Eds. Daniel T. Lochman, Maritere López and Lorna Hutson. Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 165-180.

         “‘Quanto concede la Guerra’: Epic Masculinity and the Education of Desire in Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata.” The Poetics of Masculinity in Early Modern Italy and Spain. Eds. Jane Tylus and Gerry Milligan. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2010. 215-41.

         “‘Qu’est-ce que la critique’: La Boétie, Montaigne, Foucault.” Montaigne After Theory/Theory After Montaigne. Ed. Zahi Zalloua. Whitman College and University of Washington Press, 2009. 122-141

Essays in progress

“Translating Friendship in the Circle of Marguerite de Navarre: Des Periers’ Lysis and De Rozières’ Toxaris” for Imperfect Friends, a volume on friendship in early modern France edited by Rebecca Wilkin and Lewis Seifert, 11,000 words, under review.

“‘Of Tribades, Lesbian Sodomy, and Female Sperm in Premodern Juvenal Commentaries,” an essay for a special issue of Renaissance and Reformation on “Early Modern Sex Acts,” edited by Vanessa McCarthy and Amyrose McCue Gill, submitted.