Phillip John Usher

Phillip J. Usher

Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture

Areas of Research/Interest

Renaissance Studies and classical reception with certain theorists, thinkers, and practices of geography, ecology, and visual studies

Publications

The Exterranean: Ecologies of Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene
(New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming Spring 2019).

L'aède et le géographe: poésie et espace du monde à l'époque
pré-moderne (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018).

"Untranslating the Anthrpocene," Diacritics 44:3 (2016), p. 56-77.
Epic Arts in Renaissance France. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Illustrations inconscientes: écritures de la Renaissance. Mélanges offers à Tom Conley. Volume co-edited with Bernd Renner (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014).

Building the Louvre: Architectures of Politics and Art. Volume co-edited with Patrick bray. (Volume of L’Esprit créateur, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014).

Virgilian Identities in Renaissance France. Volume co-edited with Isabelle Fernbach (London: Boydell and Brewer, June 2012).

Ronsard’s Franciad. A translation, with introduction and notes. (New York: AMS Press, 2010).

Errance et cohérence: Essai sur la littérature transfrontalière à la Renaissance (Paris: Classiques-Garnier, 2010).