Phillip J. Usher

Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture

Education

BA, Royal Holloway, University of London

MA and PhD, Harvard University

Academic Focus

Professor Phillip John Usher researches Comparative and French literature. He is especially known for his work on premodernity’s relationship to contemporary ecotheory.

External Affiliations and Awards

Editorial Board, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), 2019-present.

Discipline Representative, Renaissance Society of America (RSA), 2018-2021.

Member, then Chair, LLC French 16th-Century Literature, Modern Languages Association (MLA), 2015-2018.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Ryskamp Fellowship, 2013-14.

Major Publications

Early Modern Écologies. Beyond English Ecocriticism. Volume co-edited by Pauline Goul and Phillip John Usher. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020).
 
Exterranean: Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene. (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2019).
 
The Tragedy of Pious Antigone (1580) by Robert Garnier, translated, annotated, and introduced by Phillip John Usher (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018).
 
L'aède et le géographe: Poésie et espace du monde à l'époque pré-moderne (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018).
 
Epic Arts in Renaissance France. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
 
Illustrations inconscientes: écritures de la Renaissance. Volume co-edited by Bernd Renner and Phillip John Usher. (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014).
 
Building the Louvre: Architectures of Politics and Art. Special issue of L’Esprit créateur (54:2, summer 2014), co-edited by Patrick Bray and Phillip John Usher.
 
Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance. Volume co-edited by Phillip John Usher and Isabelle Fernbach. (London: Boydell and Brewer, 2012.)
 
Errance et cohérence : Essai sur la littérature transfrontalière à la Renaissance. (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2010).
 
The Franciad (1572) by Pierre de Ronsard. Translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Phillip John Usher. (New York: AMS Press, 2010; paperback issued 2016).