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, history and culture - 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, Flights of Fancy: Avian Themes in Renaissance France, examines the relationship between ornithological knowledge and the imaginative representation of sixteenth-century birds and of what they can symbolise. I teach language and literature at all levels as well as an Honours Module on imitation, interpretation and imagination in 16th-century literature, "Discovering the Renaissance".
Publications
Censured and Censored: Reactions to Obscenity
Herdman, E.
2011
In:
Obscénités renaissantes.
Roberts, H., Peureux, G. & Wajeman, L. (eds.). Geneva:
Droz
,
p. 367-378.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Folie and Salmacis: Labé's Re-Writing of Ovid
Herdman, E.
2013
In :
Modern Language Review
.
108
,
2
,
p. 464-483.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Article
"Amethystus Princeps Sobrietatis": Signing a Sixteenth-Century Pledge
Herdman, E.
2013
In :
Renaissance Studies
.
27
,
p. 114-132.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Article
The Parrot as Paramour: Yourcenar's Amant Vert
Herdman, E.
2011
In :
French Studies
.
65
,
2
,
p. 212-224.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Article
Louis Des Masures, Claude Goudimel, et Jean de Tournes
Herdman, E.
2004
In :
Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
.
66
,
p. 607-616.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Article
Theatricality and Obscenity in Graphic Histories of the Wars of Religion
Herdman, E.
2010
In :
EMF: Studies in Early Modern France
.
14
,
p. 91-113.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Special issue
Lupa in fabula
: Figures of Threat in the Pastoral World
Herdman, E.
2006
In :
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature
.
33.1-2
,
p. 98-114.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Special issue