FACULTY 
Glyn Norton
Professor of Romance Languages
Professor of Romance Languages
Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of International Studies
Areas of Expertise and Interest
- French and Italian Literature and Criticism of the Renaissance
- The Theory and Practice of Translation
Courses Taught (RLFR)
- Intermediate French I (RLFR 104)
- Studies in French Language and Culture (RLFR 105)
- Introduction to French Literature: The Literature of Desire and Repression (RLFR 109)
- The Spirit of the Renaissance: Rediscovery and Invention (RLFR 203)
- Rites of Lust, Blood, Power, and Words: French Tragedy in the Age of Absolutism (RLFR 208)
- The Age of Mirrors: Proportions and Disproportions in the Seventeenth-Century Text (RLFR 208)
- Travels, Topographies, Curiosities, and Encounters: The Renaissance Sense of Place (RLFR 214)
- Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 1968-71
- Professor of French, Pennsylvania State University, 1971-1988
- Director, Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Williams College, 1990-92
Education
- A.B. University of Michigan, 1963
- A.M. University of Michigan,1965
- Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1968
Publications
- "Cultural Exchange and Translation in the European Renaissance: 1450-1550". International Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. Eds Frank et al. [Forthcoming; New York and Berlin, Walter de Gruyter]
- The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism; Volume III, The Renaissance. The Supreme Council on Culture, Cairo, Egypt [Arab-language edition in press]
- "Quintilian and the Discourse of Time: From Practice to Transfiguration in Institutio Oratoria (X,vii)". In Inspiration and Technique: Theories of Beauty and Art from Antiquity to Present. Eds. Roe and Stanco [Forthcoming; Cambridge University Press]
- The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism; Volume III (The Renaissance to the late Seventeenth Century) (1999)
- "Image and Introspective Imagination in Montaigne's Essais," in Collections of Criticism on Montaigne (1995).
- "Du Bellay and the Emblematics of Regret." In Writing the Renaissance: Essays on French Renaissance Literature Presented to Floyd Gray (1992).
- "Literary Translation in the Continuum of Renaissance Thought: A Conceptual Overview." In Die literarische Übersetzung: Stand und Perspektiven ihrer Erforschung (1988).
- The Ideology and Language of Translation in Renaissance France and their Humanist Antecedents (1984).
Awards
- Senior Fellowship, NEH, 1973-74
- La Médaille de Melun, France, 1985
- The Pennsylvania State University Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts and Humanities, 1986
- Guggenheim Fellowship, Paris, France, 1986-87
- Distinguished Ph.D. Recipient, Honored by Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, 1988
