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 Corrozetā€™s ā€˜Domesticā€™ Emblems: the Home in the _Hecatomgraphie_ and Emblems in _Cebes_.. Emblematica / AMS Press 20 , pp. 111-140.
Black, E. (2012). Weā€™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 HeptamƩron (I.8). Mediaevalia, SUNY Press 31 (1).

Book Chapters

Black, E. (2017). Cocteauā€™s Queen: Sissi between Monarchy and Anarchy in _Lā€™Aigle Ć  deux tĆŖtes_. Sissiā€™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 Corrozetā€™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 ā€œCursor Mundiā€ Series.
Black, E. (2014). One Gender in the French Legal System? Implications of Galenic Medicine on Coustauā€™s Sixteenth-Century Emblems. Gender Matters. Re-Reading Violence in Early Modern Literature and Culture (pp. 197-209) Amsterdam: Rodopi.