Marcus Keller
Office: 2107 FLB
Phone: 265-6476
Email: mkeller@illinois.edu
Office hours Fall 2009: M, W 12-1pm and by appt.
Since his arrival at the University of Illinois in 2004, Marcus Keller has focused his research and teaching on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French literature and culture. He currently explores French orientalisms of the Renaissance, in particular the figure of the Turk and the representation of Islam in literary and political discourses, cosmographical writings, and travel narratives. He is the author of Figurations of France: Literary Nation-Building in Times of Crisis (under review) and 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). Further research and teaching interests include French and European theater and performance studies; the appropriation of early modern literature and culture in contemporary arts and philosophy.