Martine Debaisieux
Credentials: PhD, U.C. Berkeley
Position title: Professor Emeritus
Email: baisieux@wisc.edu
Primary Language
French
Specialties and Areas of Research Interest
Late 16th-century and 17th-century literature.
French studies, especially baroque fiction and poetry; women writers; libertine writers.
Teaching and Research Interests: Martine Debaisieux taught courses in French literature and culture as well as in advanced French grammar and stylistics. Her teaching interests also include filmic adaptations. As course chair for fourth- and fifth-semester French, she was involved in the training of teaching assistants. Her main area of research is late 16th and 17th-century literature (baroque fiction; women writers; libertine writers; devotional poetry; literature and painting). Her publication focuses on Hélisenne de Crenne, Marie de Gournay, Charles Sorel,Théophile de Viau, Scarron, Jean Auvray, La Fontaine, etc. She is currently working on a book project dealing with women and libertins’ strategies of rewriting from the Renaissance to the Classical period.
Distinctions
- Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (1986-87)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend (1990)
- Resident Fellowship, Institute of Research in the Humanities (Fall 1990)
- Vilas Associate Research Grant (1996-1997)
- Halverson-Bascom Professorship (2000-2003)
- Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (Spring 2005)
- Carol Mason Kirk Professorship (2010-2013)
- Pickard-Bascom Professorship (2021-2022)
Selected Publications
- Violence et fiction jusqu’à la Révolution. Travaux du IXe colloque international de la SATOR. Ed. with G. Verdier. Etudes Littéraires Françaises. Gunter Narr Verlag, 1998.
- Le Labyrinthe de Versailles: Parcours critiques de Molière à La Fontaine. Ed. Editions Rodopi, 1998.
- Le Procès du roman: Ecriture et contrefaçon chez Charles Sorel, Anma Libri, “Stanford French and Italian Studies”, 1989. Republication, Editions Paradigme, 2000.
- Critical edition — Charles Sorel, Description de l’île de portraiture. Genève: Droz, 2006.