Cynthia Skenazi

Cynthia Skenazi, Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature, has published numerous articles and several books on Renaissance literature and culture, Belgian literature in French, aging studies, architecture, and rhetoric. She is the author of Marie Gevers et la nature (Brussels : Palais des Académies,1983), Maurice Scève et la pensée chrétienne (Geneva: Droz, 1992), Le Poète architecte en France. Constructions d’un imaginaire monarchique (Paris : Champion, 2003; 2^nd ed. print and e-book, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2006; 3^rd ed., ibid. 2024). Her book Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne (Leiden: Brill, 2013; 2nd ed. open access, OAPEN, 2014) was named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 by Choice Magazine. She edited Marie Gevers. Correspondance 1917-1974 (Brussels: Labor, 1986), was guest editor of a double issue on "Le Voyage en Europe au XVI^e siècle”, The Romanic Review (2003), and co-editor of a special issue on "Altérité et différences à l'aube des temps modernes," French Forum (2018). 

She was awarded a fellowship from the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, and received a Borchard Foundation grant.