Russ Ganim

Russell Ganim, Associate Professor and Chair (Ph.D. Virginia), specialist in Baroque poetry and Neo-Classical literature, joined UNL in 1993. He has published in various journals such as French Literature Series, Comparative Literature Studies, Dalhousie French Studies, The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Revue francophone, and Romance Languages Annual. His book, Renaissance Resonance: Lyric Modality in La Ceppède’s Théorèmes, was published by Editions Rodopi in 1998. In addition to his interest in early modern literature, he has also taught and written on French/Francophone film. Most recently, he has published, with Jeff Persels, Fecal Matters in Early Modern Litertaure and Art: Studies in Scatology (Ashgate 2004) and with Anne L. Birberick, The Shape of Change: Essays in Early Modern Literature and La Fontaine in Honor of David Lee Rubin (Rodopi 2002). Professor Ganim is also co-editor of the annual EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, and its monograph series, EMF Critiques. Professor Ganim is the President of the North American Society for Seventeenth Century French Literature, which will hold its annual conference at UNL in May of 2007. He has received numerous teaching awards, and has developed a web site: Images of Power in Louis XIV’s France.