Marc Bizer
PhD, Princeton University
Professor of French Studies

Contact
- E-mail: mbizer@utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-7780
- Office: HRH 3.112B
- Campus Mail Code: B7600
Interests
Reception of Classical Texts in Early Modern France, Renaissance Latin Literature; Classical Tradition, Tragedy and the Tragic, history of emotions
Biography
Marc Bizer, originally from Amherst, Massachusetts, has taught at UT since 1992. He holds an A.B. in Comparative Literature from Brown University, a Maîtrise ès lettres modernes from the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University. He is the author of three books in addition to many articles: Homer and the Politics of Authority in Renaissance France (Oxford University Press, 2011), Les Lettres Romaines de Du Bellay: Les Regrets et la Tradition Epistolaire (University of Montreal Press, 2001), and La Poésie au Miroir: Imitation et Conscience de soi dans la Poésie Latine de la Pléiade (Champion, 1995). He is the recipient of sabbatical fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the American Philosophical Society, and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. He won a silver award for innovative instructional technology for his Reading Between the Lines web site (2008).
Courses
ITL 382 • Reference Works And Rsch Meths
37490 • Fall 2021
Meets TH 2:00PM-5:00PM PAR 210
T C 302 • Hunger
42750 • Fall 2021
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM CRD 007B
Wr
ID
FR 325E • Representing Difference-Wb
36890 • Spring 2021
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM
Internet; Synchronous
GC
FR 325C • Crisis And Conflict-Wb
35685 • Fall 2020
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM
Internet; Synchronous
GC
FR 325E • Representing Difference
36295 • Spring 2020
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM MEZ 1.208
EGC
FR 391K • Deconstructing Tragedy
36328 • Spring 2020
Meets TH 2:00PM-5:00PM HRH 2.106C
FR 325D • Self And Society
35805 • Fall 2019
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM HRH 4.102B
GC
T C 302 • Hunger
41305 • Fall 2019
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM CRD 007A
GCWr
ID
FR S380C • Fr For Grad Stds/Other Depts
81074 • Summer 2019
Meets MTWTHF 1:00PM-2:30PM BEN 1.106
FR F380C • Fr For Grad Stds/Other Depts
81865 • Summer 2018
Meets MTWTHF 1:00PM-2:30PM BEN 1.106
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
36285 • Spring 2018
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM MEZ 2.102
GC
FR 326L • Intro Fr Lit II: Fr Rev-Pres
36770 • Fall 2017
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM MEZ 1.118
GC
FR 358 • French Literature & Gastronomy
36780 • Fall 2017
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM BEN 1.108
FR S380C • Fr For Grad Stds/Other Depts
82295 • Summer 2017
Meets MTWTHF 1:00PM-2:30PM BEN 1.106
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
36750 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM HRH 2.112
GC
FR 390K • Self-/Portraiture Medvl-17c
36795 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM HRH 2.106C
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
36600 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM MEZ 1.118
GC
T C 302 • Hunger
42785 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM CRD 007B
GCWr
ID
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
35925 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM MEZ 1.210
GC
FR 391K • Deconstructing Tragedy
35985 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM HRH 2.106C
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
35795 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM BEN 1.108
GC
FR 358 • French Literature & Gastronomy
35815 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MEZ 2.122
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
36035 • Spring 2015
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MEZ 1.210
GC
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
36965 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MEZ 2.124
GC
EUS 347 • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
36770 • Fall 2013
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM MEZ 2.122
GC
(also listed as FR 326K)
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
37120 • Fall 2013
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MEZ 2.122
GC
FR 180P • Intro To Studies In Lit & Cul
37185 • Fall 2013
Meets W 5:00PM-6:00PM HRH 2.112
(also listed as ITL 180P)
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
36840 • Spring 2013
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM HRH 2.112
GC
FR 326L • Intro Fr Lit II: Fr Rev-Pres
36850 • Spring 2013
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM HRH 2.112
GC
FR 180P • Intro To Studies In Lit & Cul
36840 • Fall 2012
Meets W 5:00PM-6:00PM HRH 2.112
(also listed as ITL 180P)
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
36695 • Spring 2012
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MEZ 1.208
GC
FR 326L • Intro Fr Lit II: Fr Rev-Pres
36705 • Spring 2012
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM MEZ 1.208
GC
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
36625 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM GAR 1.122
GC
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
36890 • Spring 2011
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM BEN 1.106
GC
FR 326L • Intro Fr Lit II: Fr Rev-Pres
36895 • Spring 2011
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM GAR 1.126
GC
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
36650 • Spring 2010
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MEZ 1.206
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
36965 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM BEN 1.106
WGS 345 • Writing Alienated Self-Hon-W
47960 • Spring 2009
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MEZ 2.210
C2
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18c
37200 • Fall 2008
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM BEN 1.106
UGS 302 • Writing From The Margins-W
66545 • Fall 2008
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM MAI 220C
C1
C L 385 • Theories Of Literary Criticism
32725 • Spring 2007
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM PAR 8A
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18 C
37075 • Fall 2006
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM BEN 1.106
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18 C
37080 • Fall 2006
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BEN 1.106
WGS 345 • Writing Alienated Self-Hon-W
47623 • Spring 2006
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM BUR 128
C2
FR 320E • Adv French I: Written Emphasis
34883 • Fall 2005
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM BEN 1.106
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18 C
33850 • Spring 2005
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MEZ 1.122
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18 C
34620 • Fall 2004
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BEN 1.106
WGS 345 • Writing Alienated Self-Hon-W
47190 • Fall 2004
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM CBA 4.340
C2
WGS 345 • On Road: Homer To Coen Bros-W
44557 • Spring 2004
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM CAL 221
C2
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18 C
33195 • Fall 2003
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM PHR 2.114
FR 358 • Travel In French Literature-W
32335 • Spring 2002
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM CAL 419
C2
FR 506 • First-Year French I
32820 • Fall 2001
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:00AM BAT 105
FR 506 • First-Year French I
32830 • Fall 2001
Meets MTWTHF 11:00AM-12:00PM BAT 105
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18 C
32805 • Fall 2000
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM WEL 3.260
FR 322E • Adv French II: Oral Emphasis
32205 • Spring 2000
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM BAT 302
FR 326K • Intro Fr Lit I: Mid Ages-18 C
32230 • Spring 2000
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM BEN 204
External Grants
Fellowships
- 2018 CES research travel grant ($2,000)
- 2007-8 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship (year); Renaissance Society of America Senior Scholar Research Grant for research in Paris (one month).
- 2002-3 Sabbatical Fellowship, American Philosophical Society.
- 2001 Marandon Fellowship, Society of American Professors of French, 6 mos.
- 1996-97 Fulbright-Hays senior research fellowship (Paris, France), 6 mos.
Publications
Bizer, M. (2019). “Literary Hard Labor: Hercules, Lyric, and Autobiography in Erasmus and Du Bellay,” The Exemplary Hercules, eds. Valerie Mainz and Emma Stafford. Leiden: Brill.
Bizer, M. (2016). “Poetry and Modernity,” The Cambridge Companion to French Literature, ed. John Lyons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 34-41.
Bizer, M. (2011). Homer and the Politics of Authority in Renaissance France. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 272pp. Oxford Scholarship Online. Oxford University Press. January 2012.
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ClassicalStudies/?view=usa&ci=9780199731565
Bizer, M. (2010). "From Lyric to Epic and Back: Joachim Du Bellay's Epic Regrets." Modern Language Quarterly 71.2. 107-127.
Bizer, M. (2008). “Homer, La Boétie, Montaigne, and the Question of Sovereignty.” In Zahi Zalloua and Reinier Leushuis (Eds.), “Esprit généreux, esprit pantagruélicque”: Essays by His Students In Honor of François Rigolot. Geneva: Droz, 259-277.
Bizer, M. (2006). “Men are from Mars: Jean de Sponde’s Homeric Heroes and Vision of Just French Leaders.” In Philip Ford and Paul White (Eds.), Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century France. Cambridge: Cambridge French Colloquia, 167-179.
Bizer, M. (2006). “Garnier’s La Troade between Homeric Fiction and French History: the Question of Moral Authority.” Romance Notes 46.3 (2006). 331-39.
Bizer, M. (2004, September). What’s in a Name? Biography vs. Wordplay in Du Bellay’s Regrets. Early Modern France, 9, 99-109.
Bizer, M. (2002). ‘Qui a païs n'a que faire de patrie’: Joachim Du Bellay’s Resistance to a French Identity. Romanic Review 91.4, 375-395.
Bizer, M. (2002). A Source of Du Bellay’s Most Famous Sonnet: ‘Heureux qui comme Ulysse’. Romance Notes, 42.3, 371-375.
Bizer, M. (2001). Les Lettres Romaines de Du Bellay: Les Regrets et la Tradition Epistolaire. Montreal: University of Montreal Press. 302pp.
Bizer, M. (1999). “Letters from Home: The Epistolary Aspects of Joachim Du Bellay’s Regrets.” Renaissance Quarterly 52.1, 140-79.
Bizer, M. (1996). “The Reflection of the Other in One’s Own Mirror: The Idea of the Portrait in Renaissance imitatio.”Romance Notes 36.2, 191-9.
Bizer, M. (1995). “Ronsard the poet, Belleau the Translator: The Difficulties of Writing in the Laureate’s Shadow”. In K. Lloyd-Jones & J. Beer (Eds.), Humanist Translators and their Craft. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 175-226.
Bizer, M. (1995). La Poésie au Miroir: Imitation et Conscience de Soi dans la Poésie Latine de la Pléiade. Paris: Honoré Champion. 227pp.
Bizer, M. (1995). “Salammbô, Polybe et la rhétorique de la violence.” Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de la France 6, 974-88.
Bizer, M. (1994). “The Genealogy of Poetry According to Ronsard and Julius Cesar Scaliger.” Humanistica Lovaniensia 43, 304-318.