Dr. Greg Stone
Distinguished Professor - French Studies
Bachelor's Degree(s): Bowdoin College, B.A. summa cum laude with highest honors in English
Master's Degree: University of California, Berkeley, French (Scholar Exchange)
PhD: Yale University, Comparative Literature, Ph.D.
Phone: (225) 578-6627
E-mail: stone@lsu.edu
Office: 416 Hodges Hall
Area of Interest
Medieval and Renaissance literature
Selected Publications
Books
Dante’s Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio’s Poetaphysics. New York: St. Martin’s Press [Palgrave Macmillan], 1998.
The Death of the Troubadour: The Late Medieval Resistance to the Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
2. Book chapters and articles.
“Dante and the Falasifa: Religion as Imagination.” Dante Studies 125 (2007): 133-56.
“The Nameless Wild One: The Ethics of Anonymous Subjectivity—Medieval and Modern.” Common Knowledge 12, 2 (2006): 219-251.
“Sodomy, Diversity, Cosmopolitanism: Dante and the Limits of the Polis.” Dante Studies 123 (2005): 89-132.
“The Prick of the Rose: Boccaccio’s Bisexual Hermeneutics,” in Boccaccio
and Feminist Criticism, ed. Regina Psaki and Thomas Stillinger. Annali
d’Italianistica, 2005.
“Ramon Llull.” In The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: The Literature of Al-Andalus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
“Ecocriticism’s Middle Ages (On Genesis 1:28b and Humankind’s ‘Dominion over the Earth’).” The Year’s Work in Medievalism 1999 (Studies in Medievalism, 1999): 47-65.
“The Philosophical Beast: On Boccaccio’s Tale of Cimone.” In Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History, ed. Jennifer Ham and
Matthew Senior, 23-40. New York: Routledge, 1997.
“Ramon Llull vs. Petrus Alfonsi: Postmodern Liberalism and the Six Liberal Arts.” Medieval Encounters 3 (1997): 70-93.
“Chrétien de Troyes and Cultural Materialism.” Arthuriana 6, 2 (1996): 69-87.
“The Age of Others: On Maria Rosa Menocal’s Shards of Love.” Medieval Encounters 2 (1996): 155-63.
“Dante’s Averroistic Hermeneutics (On ‘Meaning’ in the Vita Nuova).” Dante Studies 112 (1994): 133-159.
“The Insistence of the Body in the Old French Fabliau Estormi.” Exemplaria 2 (1990).