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  Marc D. Schachter, Affiliated Faculty
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  Marc D. SchachterAssistant Professor; French of Romance Studies and Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Program

Office Location:  317 Languages Bldg.
Office Phone:  919-660-2421
Email Address:  send me a message
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/womstud/~marc.schachter

Office Hours:

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday: 11:00am - 12:00noon
Education:

  • PhD University of California at Santa Cruz 2000
  • MA University of California at Los Angeles 1994
  • AB Princeton University 1990

Specialties:

French
Italian
Research Interests:

Teaching and research focus on sixteenth-century France but include medieval and early modern French and Italian literatures more generally. 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.

Curriculum Vitae
Representative Publications   (More Publications)
  1. M.D. Schachter. Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship: From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern France.  Ashgate, Forthcoming (Sept. 2008).
  2. Martin Eisner and Marc Schachter. "Libido Sciendi: Apuleius, Boccaccio and the Study of the History of Sexuality." Publications of the Modern Language Association  (March, Accepted, forthcoming in May 2009).
  3. 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  (Accepted, accepted).
  4. Marc Schachter. "Friendship and Tyranny in Novella 12 of Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron." Friendships “New Begun”: Discourses of Early Modern Friendship  (Accepted, accepted).
  5. M.D. Schachter. "'Qu'est-ce que la critique?’: La Boétie, Montaigne, Foucault." Montaigne after Theory, Theory after Montaigne  (Accepted, forthcoming in October 2008).
  6. 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, January, 2008): 185-206.
  7. M.D. Schachter. "Louis le Roy's Sympose de Platon and Three Other Renaissance Adaptations of Platonic Eros." Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006): 406-39.