Gary Ferguson

Before joining UVA’s French department in Fall 2015, Gary Ferguson held the Elias Ahuja Professorship of French at the University of Delaware. He has been a visiting professor at the Université Paris 13–Paris Nord (2005), the Université Rennes 2­–Haute Bretagne (2010), the Université Jean Monnet–Saint-Étienne (2012), the University of Pennsylvania (2013), and the University of Virginia (2014-2015), as well as a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin’s Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2010).

His latest book, "Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome: Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe," appeared with Cornell University Press in 2016. He has published two earlier monographs, "Mirroring Belief: Marguerite de Navarre’s Devotional Poetry" (Edinburgh, 1992) and "Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance: Homosexuality, Gender, Culture" (Ashgate, 2008); a critical edition of Anne de Marquets’s Sonets spirituels (Droz, 1997); five edited or co-edited collections of essays, including "A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre," with Mary McKinley (Brill, 2013); and over thirty journal articles and book chapters.