Five College Renaissance Seminar with Nancy Frelick (University of British Columbia)

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Nancy Frelick is associate professor of French Renaissance Literature and English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia where she has been teaching since 1990. 

She is the author of the book Délie as Other: Toward a Poetics of Desire in Scève’s Délie (French Forum, 1994) as well as articles on French Renaissance poetry and prose, including works attributed to men (Maurice Scève, Michel de Montaigne, François Rabelais) and women (Louise Labé, Marguerite de Navarre, Marie de Gournay, Hélisenne de Crenne, and Jeanne Flore). Much of her work explores discourses of desire in early modern texts and is informed by post-structuralist psychoanalytic criticism (Lacan) and gender studies, among others.