Marcus Keller
Office: 2107 FLB
Phone: 265-6476
Email: mkeller@uiuc.edu
An Assistant Professor at UIUC since fall 2004, Marcus Keller (PhD UC Irvine, 2004) focuses in his research on early modern French literature (1550-1650) and its rhetorical invention of French national identity. Besides preparing his doctoral dissertation “The Literary Imagination of Early Modern France: Figuring the Nation” for publication, he is also investigating French orientalist discourses of the sixteenth century with a special emphasis on the figuration of the Turk, the representation of Islam, and the imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean. He is also the co-editor of a critical edition of Scipion Dupleix’ Liberté de la langue françoise dans sa pureté (1651), part of the multi-volume editorial project “Observations and Remarks on the French language” (http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/observations/index.html) to appear with Champion in an online and paper edition.