Gary Ferguson
Gary Ferguson, a specialist of French Renaissance literature and culture, is the Douglas Huntly Gordon Distinguished Professor of French at the University of Virginia. From 1989, he taught at the University of Delaware, where he held the Elias Ahuja Professorship of French from 2012-2015. He graduated from St Chad's College, Durham University, receiving a BA with first-class honours in 1985 and a Ph.D. in 1989.
He is the author of Mirroring Belief: Marguerite de Navarre's Devotional Poetry, Queer Readings in the French Renaissance: Homosexuality, Gender, Culture, and Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome: Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe, as well as of numerous articles dealing in particular with questions of gender and sexuality, women's writing, devotional literature and the cultural history of religion. He has edited or co-edited a number of collections of scholarly essays, including Inventing the Past: Essays on French Early Modern Culture, Literature and Thought in Honour of Ann Moss, Narrative Worlds: Essays on the ‘Nouvelle’ in 15th- and 16th-Century France, L’Homme en tous genres : masculinités, textes et contextes, and A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre. He has also published a critical edition of Anne de Marquets’s Sonets spirituels.
