Associate Professor & Chair
World Languages & Cultures

Elizabeth Black

4002 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529

PhD 2011, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

Ph.D. in French, University of Illinois, (2011)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Black, E. "Summer Research Fellowship Program" $7,000. Old Dominion University. June 01, 2013 - July 31, 2013

Expertise

France
French literature, 16th century, Renaissance, Architectural treatises, visual culture, French film, French language

Research Interests

Sixteenth-century French literature, architecture, visual culture, domesticity, secrecy, privacy. French Renaissance culture. French film.

Articles

Black, E. (2013). Gilles Corrozet’s ‘Domestic’ Emblems: the Home in the _Hecatomgraphie_ and Emblems in _Cebes_.. Emblematica / AMS Press 20 , pp. 111-140.
Black, E. (2012). We’ve Come a Long Way: French Emblems on the Internet. Early Modern Literary Studies Special Edition: Emblem Digitization: Conducting Digital Research with Renaissance Texts and Images 20.
Black, E. (2011). Writing Secret Space in the Heptaméron (I.8). Mediaevalia, SUNY Press 31 (1).

Book Chapters

Black, E. (2017). Cocteau’s Queen: Sissi between Monarchy and Anarchy in _L’Aigle à deux têtes_. Sissi’s World: The Empress Elisabeth in Memory and Myth New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press.
Black, E. (2016). Mirror/Window, Reflection/Deflection: Regulating the Gaze Inside and Outside the House in Gilles Corrozet’s Blasons domestiques (1539) The Mirror in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Specular Reflections. (pp. 16 pages) Turnhout: Brepols. UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies “Cursor Mundi” Series.
Black, E. (2014). One Gender in the French Legal System? Implications of Galenic Medicine on Coustau’s Sixteenth-Century Emblems. Gender Matters. Re-Reading Violence in Early Modern Literature and Culture (pp. 197-209) Amsterdam: Rodopi.