Dr Emma Herdman, Lecturer
Contact Information
eh58@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 463651
Office: Buchanan 311
Research and Teaching
My research interests are in the literature and history - in French and in Latin, in texts and in images - of Renaissance France. I am particularly interested in themes of transgression and restraint: my recent work has focused on areas such as the literary and artistic representations of the atrocities committed during the French religious wars, attitudes to alcohol in early modern Europe, and (as part of a wider research network) obscenity. My current book-length project, Figures of Female Sexuality in Renaissance France, examines the cultural connotations and associations of the imaginative figures through which female sexuality and particularly homosexuality are represented. I teach language and literature as well as an Honours Module on imitation, interpretation and imagination in 16th-century literature, "Discovering the Renaissance".