School of Modern Languages and Cultures
French Section

Amy Wygant (B.M., A.M., M.A., Ph.D.)
Senior Lecturer

Room 114
Modern Languages Building
16 University Gardens
telephone: 0141-330 4588
fax: 0141-330 4234
electronic mail: A.Wygant@french.arts.gla.ac.uk

Editor, Seventeenth-Century French Studies
Guest editor, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2007: 'Stagecraft and Witchcraft'
Course Co-ordinator: Level 2, Image and Imagination, 1150-1789
Co-founder: Women in French in Scotland
Publicity Officer: Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies www.c17.org.uk

    Research Interests
  • Early modern culture and literature
  • Freud
  • Historical witchcraft and demonology
  • Reception studies
    Books
  • Medea, Magic, and Modernity. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, forthcoming 2007.
  • Ed. ‘Stagecraft and Witchcraft’. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2007.
  • Ed. Magic: God, Science, and Culture from the Bible to Buffalo Bill. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006.
  • Towards a Cultural Philology: Phèdre and the Construction of ‘Racine’. Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre, 1999.
  • Ed. 'New Directions in Emblem Studies'. Glasgow Emblem Studies 4 (1999).
    Articles
  • ‘“Should Women Study the Classics?” Or French, For That Matter?’ In progress.
  • ‘Montaigne’s Witches, His Stages’. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2007. In progress.
  • ‘Fire, Sacrifice, Iphigénie’. French Studies, 60 (2006) 305-19.
  • 'The Golden Fleece and Harry Potter'. In Magic: God, Science, and Culture from the Bible to Buffalo Bill. (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006) 179-98.
  • ‘Salvador Dalí, lecteur de Montaigne’. In Montaigne et le dialogue des arts. Eds. Tom Conley, Alexia Duc, and Dominique Bertrand. Paris: Champion, 2005.
  • 'La Mesnardière and the Demon'. In Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Actes du 34e congrès de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Eds. John D. Lyons and Cara Welch. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 323-34.
  • ‘Introduction: Ours is a Magical Age’. eSHARP (Social Sciences Humanities Arts Review for Postgraduates) Vol.1, no.1 (2003). http://www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk/issue1/wygant.htm
  • 'D’Aubignac, Demonologist, II: St Anthony and the Satyr', Seventeenth-Century French Studies 24 (2002) 71-85.
  • 'D’Aubignac, Demonologist, I: Monkeys and Monsters'. Seventeenth-Century French Studies 23 (2001) 143-64.
  • 'Medea, Poison, and the Epistemology of Error in Phèdre'. MLR 95 (2000) 62-71.
  • 'Poppea and the Goddess Fortuna in Music'. Glasgow Emblem Studies 4 (1999) 137-51.
  • 'Corneille, Rubens, and the Heroic Emblem'. Emblematica 9 (1995) 111-32.
  • 'Boileau and the Sound of Satire'. Forum for Modern Language Studies 31 (1995) 128- 39.
  • 'Leo Spitzer’s Racine'. MLN 109 (1994) 632-49.
  • 'Pierre Corneille’s Medea-Machine'. Romanic Review 85 (1994) 535-50.
  • '"Goin’ Home": Melody from the New World in Tristes Tropiques'. MLN 104 (1989) 899-912.



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