Bizer has authored a number of articles and three books: Poetry in a Mirror: Imitation and Literary Self-Consciousness in the Latin poetry of the Pleiade (Paris: Champion, 1995), a study of literary bilingualism (French-Latin) in 16th-century France; Du Bellay's Roman Letters: The Regrets and the epistolary tradition (Montreal: University of Montreal Press, 2001) shows how a French poet on diplomatic mission in 16th-century Rome used sonnets as letters to maintain relationships with men who shared his views on poetics and politics; and, his latest book Homer and the Politics of Authority in Renaissance France (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) examines how, in sixteenth-century France, when the French monarchy traced its origins back to ancient Troy, Homeric epic was destined to play a significant political role as classical scholars and readers of the classics transitioned from being monarchical advisers to stirring crowds as actors on the larger political stage.
Ph.D.
in Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, 1993
M.A.
in Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, 1990
M.A.
in Maîtrise ès lettres modernes, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1985
B.A.
in Comparative Literature, Brown University, 1982
Early Modern French identities: national, social, religious, authorial, gendered; gastronomy; tragedy and the tragic
Editorial Board,
Explorations in Renaissance Culture (2012 - Present)
Manuscript reviewer,
Renaissance Quarterly, Journal of the History of Ideas, French Studies, Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, Political Studies, Romance Notes and Oxford University Press
Humanities Research Award
- The College of Liberal Arts, UT Austin (2012 - 2015)
Silver Award for Web-based and Multimedia Learning for Lyre Entre Les Lignes
- Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program (2008)
Research Grant for Senior Scholars
- Renaissance Society of America (2008)
Dean's Fellowship
- The University of Texas at Austin (2007 - 2008)
Fellowship
- Loeb Classical Library Foundation (2007 - 2008)
Fellowship
- Humanities Institute (2005)
Sabbatical Fellowship
- American Philosophical Society (2002 - 2003)
Senior Research Fellowship
- Fullbright-Hays (1996 - 1997)
