Dr. Alison Baird Lovell

Contact Information

Office: Sturges 314
Phone: 740-368-3013
E-mail: ablovell@owu.edu

Specialty

French and Italian literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Education

Ph.D., CUNY Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY
M.Phil., CUNY Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY
B.A., Barnard College of Columbia University, New York, NY

Biography

Alison Baird Lovell holds a PhD in French (2005) from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, with a Certificate in Renaissance Studies. Her graduate advisors were Michel Beaujour (NYU) and Mary Ann Caws (CUNY GC). Alison is working on a book project, The Shadow of Dante in Maurice Scève’s Poetry. She is also publishing an article on Pierre Boaistuau’s Théâtre du monde (1558), and is contributing an essay on Bounin’s tragedy La Soltane (1561) to a forthcoming book on Orientalism in France. Alison’s interests include Maurice Scève; Dante and Petrarch; constructions of rhetoric and genre in Renaissance texts; humanism; evolving views of women; early modern transfigurations of ancient pagan ideas; literary imitation; mysticism; intersections of literature and religion, literature and philosophy. Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio Wesleyan, Alison taught humanities courses as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. Alison’s teaching experience includes French and Italian, literature and humanities, mythology, business, and writing. She holds a BA in Religion from Barnard.

Courses Taught

HMCL 122, Myth, Legend and Folklore: European and Arabian Tales, 12c-17c
HMCL 260, Public Life and Private Lives
HMCL 280, Tragic Vision
HMCL 285, Comic Vision
HMCL 300.7 The Mystic Experience
HMCL 330, Medieval and Renaissance Thought
HMCL 499, Senior Seminar: French & Italian Poetics of Love, 12c-17c

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