| Marc Schachter received his doctorate in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz in June 2000. His teaching and research focus on early modern France and Italy and the classical tradition. Particular interests include the literature of the Wars of
Religion in France; Montaigne and La Boétie; the history of sexuality; feminism and queer studies; the politics, theory, and practice of translation in the Renaissance; and philology and textual editing. He has recently completed his first book project, Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship: From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern France. Forthcoming with Ashgate, this book focuses on the early modern French authors Etienne de La Boétie, Michel de Montaigne and Marie de Gournay; the classical Greek authors Xenophon, Plutarch and Plato; and the later work of Michel Foucault. His second book, Desiring Philology, explores the adaptation, translation, glossing and editing of classical erotic works by authors such as Ovid, Sappho, Anacreon, Lucian and Plato in early modern France and Italy. Education:
- PhD University of California at Santa Cruz, 2000
- MA University of California at Los Angeles, 1994
- AB Princeton University, 1990
Research Interests:
Teaching and research focus on early modern France and Italy as well as the classical tradition. Particular interests include the Wars of Religion in France; Montaigne, La Boétie and Gournay; Ariosto, Tasso and Spenser; friendship studies; the history of sexuality; feminism and queer studies; the politics, theory, and practice of translation in the Renaissance; and philology and textual editing. Duties:
Director of Graduate Studies, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Representative Publications (More Publications)
- M.D. Schachter. Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship: From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern France. Ashgate, Forthcoming (Sept. 2008).
- Martin Eisner and Marc Schachter. "Libido Sciendi: Apuleius, Boccaccio and the Study of the History of Sexuality." Publications of the Modern Language Association (Accepted, March, 2008).
- M.D. Schachter. "‘Quanto concede la Guerra’: Epic Masculinity and the Education of Desire in Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata." A volume on masculinity in early modern Italy and Spain. Ed. Jane Tylus and Gerry Milligan. Toronto University Press,
Accepted, accepted.
- Marc Schachter. "Friendship and Tyranny in Novella 12 of Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron." Friendships “New Begun”: Discourses of Early Modern Friendship. Ed. Daniel Lochman and Maritere Lopez. Accepted, accepted.
- M.D. Schachter. "'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,
Accepted, forthcoming 2008.
- M.D. Schachter. "Presentation of a Newly Discovered Manuscript of La Boétie's Servitude volontaire and Hypotheses on the Datation of the Known Manuscripts." Montaigne Studies XX (January, 2008): 185-206.
- M.D. Schachter. "Louis le Roy's Sympose de Platon and Three Other Renaissance Adaptations of Platonic Eros." Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006): 406-39.
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