Francois-Xavier P. Gleyzon

Associate Professor of English | Director, Medieval & Renaissance Studies Minor, University of Central Florida | Series Editor, Anthem Press Series in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Teaching


My teaching spans early modern literature, comparative and world literature, visual culture, and critical theory. Graduate supervision is central to this work.

Early Modern and Renaissance Studies

Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (UG, G) · John Milton and His Contemporaries (UG, G) · English Renaissance Poetry and Prose (UG) · Renaissance Drama (UG) · Renaissance Women Writers: Protofeminism and Protention (UG) ° · Literature and Law: Early Modern Legal Imagination (UG, G) ° · Early Modern Renaissance Visual Cultures (G) · Early Modern British Literature and its Eastern Roots (G) ° · Shakespeare and the Orient (G) ° · Shakespeare and the Long 18th Century: Creation and Distortion (G)

Comparative and World Literature

Global Shakespeares (G) · Literature as Geography: Spaces and Places (G) ° · Poetry: Identity and Resistance (UG)

Visual Culture, Film and Aesthetics

Texts and Images (UG) · Film as Text (G) · Visual Shakespeare (G) ° · American Cinema and French Theory: David Lynch (G) ° · Illuminated Books: A Voyage through Images (G) °

Critical and Literary Theory

Literary Theory (G) · Literary Aesthetics (G) · Orientalism and Decoloniality (G) · Gilles Deleuze: Politics of Space – Towards a New Spatiality (G) °

° Course conceived and introduced by the instructor. UG = undergraduate; G = graduate.