Stephen Murphy

Stephen Murphy earned his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches all levels of French language, literature, and culture, including Poetry (FRH 363) and seminars (FRH 370) on “Literature and truth in autobiography” and “Adventures in narrative.” He is program director and regularly directs the WFU study abroad program in Dijon. He has published a book about the poetics of Renaissance humanism, The Gift of Immortality, an edition of Marsilio Ficino’s Le Banquet d’amour de Platon (1546), an edition (with François Rouget and Colette Winn) of L’Album de poésies des Villeroy, and articles on early modern French and Neo-Latin literature. His current research centers on autobiography, history, and polemic during the French civil wars of the 16th-17th centuries.

FRH 111-112: Elementary French
FRH 212: Exploring the French and Francophone World
FRH 213: Encounters: French and Francophone Literature and Culture
FRH 216: Studies in French and Francophone Literature and Culture: “Travels to the End of the Earth, or Encounters with Cannibals”
FRH 216: “Caractère et personnage”
FRH 363: French and Francophone Poetry
FRH 370: Seminar in French and Francophone Studies: “Autobiography: Literature and Truth:
FRH 370: “Adventures in Narrative”

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