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鈥檚 Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio鈥檚 Poetaphysics. New York: St. Martin鈥檚 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.
鈥淒ante and the Falasifa: Religion as Imagination.鈥� Dante Studies 125 (2007): 133-56.
鈥淭he Nameless Wild One: The Ethics of Anonymous Subjectivity鈥擬edieval and Modern.鈥� Common Knowledge 12, 2 (2006): 219-251.
鈥淪odomy, Diversity, Cosmopolitanism: Dante and the Limits of the Polis.鈥� Dante Studies 123 (2005): 89-132.
鈥淭he Prick of the Rose: Boccaccio鈥檚 Bisexual Hermeneutics,鈥� in Boccaccio
and Feminist Criticism, ed. Regina Psaki and Thomas Stillinger. Annali
d鈥橧talianistica, 2005.
鈥淩amon Llull.鈥� In The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: The Literature of Al-Andalus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
鈥淓cocriticism鈥檚 Middle Ages (On Genesis 1:28b and Humankind鈥檚 鈥楧ominion over the Earth鈥�).鈥� The Year鈥檚 Work in Medievalism 1999 (Studies in Medievalism, 1999): 47-65.
鈥淭he Philosophical Beast: On Boccaccio鈥檚 Tale of Cimone.鈥� In Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History, ed. Jennifer Ham and
Matthew Senior, 23-40. New York: Routledge, 1997.
鈥淩amon Llull vs. Petrus Alfonsi: Postmodern Liberalism and the Six Liberal Arts.鈥� Medieval Encounters 3 (1997): 70-93.
鈥淐hr茅tien de Troyes and Cultural Materialism.鈥� Arthuriana 6, 2 (1996): 69-87.
鈥淭he Age of Others: On Maria Rosa Menocal鈥檚 Shards of Love.鈥� Medieval Encounters 2 (1996): 155-63.
鈥淒ante鈥檚 Averroistic Hermeneutics (On 鈥楳eaning鈥� in the Vita Nuova).鈥� Dante Studies 112 (1994): 133-159.
鈥淭he Insistence of the Body in the Old French Fabliau Estormi.鈥� Exemplaria 2 (1990).