Gregory David de Rocher
Department of Modern Languages & Classics
The University of Alabama
P.O. Box 870246
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0246
Tel: (205) 348-5059 fax: (205) 348-2942
e-mail: gderoche@woodsquad.as.ua.edu
home page: http://www.bama.ua.edu/~gderoche/
Education
Employment
Scholarly Publications
Books
Website Editions, Exercises,
and Home Pages
Articles
Reviews
Pedagogical publications
Book
Articles
Reviews
Creative Publications
Work in preparation
Papers Presented, Panels Chaired
Papers Read at Professional
Conferences
Panels Chaired
Grants: Description of Projects Submitted as Director
Prepublication Reviews for Professional
Journals and University Presses
Society Memberships
Offices Held
Administrative Experience
Honors and Awards
Certificat d'Aptitude à l'enseignement du français à
l'étranger,
Certificat d'Études françaises, Université de
Poitiers, 1964-65
B.A. University of Detroit, 1966
M.A. University of Michigan, 1967
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1972
University of Alabama
Instructor, 1971-72
Assistant Professor, 1972-78
Associate Professor, 1978-84
Professor, 1984 to date
The Second Part of the Popular Errors. (By Laurent Joubert) Edited, translated, and annotated by Gregory de Rocher. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995.
Popular Errors. (By Laurent Joubert) Edited, translated, and annotated by Gregory de Rocher. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989.
Treatise on Laughter. (By Laurent Joubert) Edited, translated, and annotated by Gregory de Rocher. University: University of Alabama Press, 1980.
Rabelais's Laughers and Joubert's `Traité du Ris'. University:
University of Alabama Press, 1979.
Website Editions, Exercises, and Home Pages
Laurent Joubert. Erreurs popolaires. Bordeaux: S. Millanges, 1578 (in-8º): http://www.bama.ua.edu/~gderoche/joubert/ (posting date: 000324) Première partie [work fully completed 001003]
Laurent Joubert. La Pharmacopée. Lyon: Antoine de Harsy, 1588 (in-8º): http://www.bama.ua.edu/~gderoche/joubert/ (posting date: 980224)
Laurent Joubert. Traitté des arcbusades. Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1574 (in-8º): http://www.bama.ua.edu/~gderoche/joubert/ (posting date: 981016)
Personal and Political Aspects in the Correspondence of Henry IV: Moral Maxims; Religious, Civic, and Political Attitudes; Love Letters By Bernerd C. Weber and Gregory David de Rocher: http://www.bama.ua.edu/~gderoche/henriiv/ (posting date: 990224)
Web exercises for French 101, 102, and 103: http://bama.ua.edu/~fderoche/fr100/links.html (posting dates 990825 and 000130)
Can8 exercises for French 201 and 202: Language Resource Center, Can8, Student Menu, French, French 201 exercises, French 202 exercises (posting date 991030)
Can8 exercises and examinations for French 324: Language Resource Center, Can8, Student Menu, French, French 324 (posting date 001015 and 010321)
Gregory de Rocher, Professor of French: http://www.bama.ua.edu/~gderoche/
(posting date: 971111)
"Légendes de la dignité humaine: du cas Rabelais au casum de Montaigne." Actes du Colloque International De Rabelais à Montaigne et leurs lecteurs (1495-1995): De la dignité de l'homme et de la femme. To appear.
"Montaigne and Mollities: Problems with the Essayist's Public "Filthie frigging." Montaigne Studies 9.1-2 (1997): 121-34.
"L'Épitaphe de François de Montmorency par Laurent Joubert." Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 55.1 (1993) 77-80.
Review article of The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991). SubStance 70 22.1 (1993) 108-112.
"Laughter as Metaphor: Ronsard and D'Aubigné on Energy and Identity." French Forum 18.1 (1993) 5-22.
"Laurent Joubert et les passions impossibles." La Peinture des passions de la Renaissance à l'Âge classique: Actes du Colloque International. Saint-Étienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, 1995, 271-79.
"Ronsard's Dildo Sonnet, the Scandal of Poissy and Rasse des Noeux." in Writing the Renaissance: Studies in Honor of Floyd Gray. Lexington: French Forum Publications, 1992), 149-164.
"Inverted Erotic Imagery in Scève's Délie: Hand in Glove." Romanic Review 82.4 (November 1991): 434-442.
"The Renaissance Wound: The Discourse of Power in Sixteenth-Century Medicine." Romance Quarterly 38.2 (May 1991): 131-37.
"Joachim Du Bellay ou le retour à la souffrance." Actes du Colloque International d'Angers du 26 au 29 Mai 1989. 2 vols. Angers: Presses de l'Université d'Angers, 1990, 2, 453-59.
"Vers un nouvel humour rabelaisien." Études Rabelaisiennes 21 (1988): 301-08.
"The Trouble with Women; Some Medical Musings from SixteenthCentury France." Renaissance Papers 1987, 39-47.
"The Curing Text: Maurice Scève's Delie as the Delie," Romanic Review 78.1 (January 1987): 10-24.
"Ronsard, ou le désir de l'imaginaire." Studi di Letteratura Francese 12 (1986): 38-52.
"Pierre LeMoyne's Saint Louis: The Destruction of Another French Epic." Renaissance Papers 1984, 69-79.
"Note sur le mot destil." Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 44 (1982): 615-16.
"Agrippa d'Aubigné's Erinyes: The History of a Field of Poetic Imagery." Renaissance Papers 1981, 45-54.
"Quelques précisions sur l'oeuvre de Laurent Joubert." Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 43 (1981): 345-46.
"Autour de Nicole Estienne: virtuose de l'art dédicatoire et égérie de Jacques Grévin." Revue des Langues Romanes 84 (1980): 95-97.
"The Fusion of Priapus and the Muses: Rabelaisian Metaphors in the Prologue to the Quart Livre." Kentucky Romance Quarterly 27 (1980): 413-20.
"Dépliage cosmique dans un sonnet de Ronsard." Revue Belge de Philo-logie et d'Histoire 58 (1980): 588-94.
"Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre, Prologue: The Homomorphic u/v." Romance Notes 20 (1979): 114-15.
"L'Anamorphose: vers une précision de la définition du Baroque." Revue des Langues Romanes 83 (1979): 87-93.
"Une Oraison de Clément Marot: Formation de `l'élégant badinage." Revue des Langues Vivantes 44 (1978): 301-07.
"Le Plan rhétorique de Montaigne." Bulletin de la Société des Amis de Montaigne 22-23 (1977): 103-07.
"Le Rire au temps de la Renaissance." Revue Belge de Philologie et
d'Histoire 56 (1976), 629-40.
François Rabelais: Critical Assessments. Ed. by Jean-Claude Carron (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995) in Romance Quarterly 46.2 (Spring 1999): 125-128.
Rabelais et le comique du discontinu by Floyd Gray (Paris: Champion, 1994) in French Forum 21.3 (Sept 1996): 365-66.
The Love Aesthetics of Maurice Scève: Poetry and Struggle by Jerry C. Nash (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) in Romance Quarterly 41.3 (Summer 1994): 187-88.
Le Signe et le texte: Études sur l'écriture au XVIe siècle en France. Textes réunis par Lawrence D. Kritzman (Lexington: French Forum, 1990) in French Forum 17.2 (May 1992): 216-18.
Voyage et Écriture: Étude sur le Quart Livre de Rabelais by Paul J. Smith. Études Rabelaisiennes, xix (Genève: Droz, 1987) in French Forum 14:1 (January 1989), 92-94.
Ideal Forms in the Age of Ronsard by Margaret M. McGowan (Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 1985) in Romance Quarterly 88:4 (1988), 481-82.
Every Man for Himself: Social Order in Its Dissolution in Rabelais by Richard M. Berrong. Stanford French Studies, 38 (Saratoga: Anmi Libri, 1985) in The French Review 61 (1987), 286-87.
The Ideology and Language of Translation in Renaissance France and Their Humanist Antecedents by Glyn P. Norton. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, cci.(Genève: Droz, 1984) in French Forum, 10.2 (1985): 236-37.
The Poetry of Pierre Le Moyne (1602-1671) by Richard G.Maber (Berne-Francfort/Main: Peter Lang, 1982) in Romance Quarterly, 32.4 (1984): 431.
Le Curieux, le glorieux, et la sagesse du monde dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle by Gérard Defaux (Lexington: French Forum, 1982) in The French Review, 58 (1984): 281-82.
The Palace Academy of Henry III by Robert. J. Sealy, S.J. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, clxxxiv (Geneva: Droz, 1981) in Kentucky Romance Quarterly 31 (1984): 341-42.
Rabelais grammairien: de l'histoire du texte aux problèmes d'inauthenticité by Mireille Huchon. Études Rabelaisiennes, xiv. (Genève: Droz, 1981)in The French Review 56 (1983): 476-77.
Rhetoric at Play: Rabelais and Satirical Eulogy by Debora N. Losse (Berne-Francfort/Main: Peter Lang, 1980) in The French Review 55 (1981): 262-63.
Les Odes Latines de Jean Dorat, ed. Geneviève Demerson (ClermontFerrand: Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines, 1979) in Kentucky Romance Quarterly 28 (1981): 428-29.
Rabelais et la Renaissance by Madeleine Lazard (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1979) in The French Review 53 (1980): 931.
French Criticism from Proust and Valéry to Structuralism. Ed. Philip A. Crant (Chicago-London: University of Chicago Press, 1972) in South Atlantic Bulletin 44 (1979): 116-17.
Rabelais tel quel by G.-André Vachon (Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1977) in The French Review 51 (1978): 600.
Formes métaphoriques dans la poésie lyrique de l'âge baroque en France by Fernand Hallyn, Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire, 150 (Genève: Droz, 1975) in The French Review 50 (1977): 636-37.
Rabelais et l'écriture by Floyd Gray (Paris: Nizet, 1974) in Revue des Langues Romanes 82 (1976): 363-63.
Joachim Du Bellay by L. Clark Keating, TWAS 162 (New York: Twayne, 1971) in South Atlantic Bulletin 38 (1973): 77-78.
Jacques de La Taille's `La Maniere' by Pierre Han (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1970) in South Atlantic Bulletin
37 (1972): 78-79.
Options: Aperçus de la France (New York: John Wiley &
Sons, 1980) [coauthored with Françoise de Rocher].
"Band Saw Primer, " Words from WaWa 1.7 (November 1998): 2-3.
"Humidor Construction," Words from WaWa 1.3 (February 1998): 1-2.
"Jigs and Safety," Words from WaWa 1.3 (February 1998): 2.The Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science.
"Vitiligo as a Clue to Endocrine Disorders," WJournal of the Alabama Academy of Science 58.3 (July 1987): 135 [Abstract, coauthored with Dr. Robert E. Pieroni].
"Marguerite de Valois: A Queen and a legend," The Monarchist 60 (1982): 38-39 [coauthored with B. C. Weber].
"Louis XII: Father of the French People and Guardian of French Culture," The Monarchist 49-50 (1977): 8-9 [coauthored with B. C. Weber].
"Marguerite de Navarre: A Monarch's Devoted Sister and Protectress of French Renaissance Culture," The Monarchist 47-48 (1976):63-65. [coauthored with B. C. Weber].
"Renaissance in France: Its History and Its Literature: An Interdisciplinary
Study," Journal of theFaculty of Arts of the Royal University of Malta
6 (1976): 299-302 [coauthored with B. C. Weber].
A Venetian Family and Its Fortune, 1500-1590: The Donà and the Conservation of Their Wealth by James C. Davis (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1975) in Revue des Langues Romanes 83 (1979): 172-72 [coauthored with B. C. Weber].
Edward IV by Charles Ross (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of
California Press, 1974) in Revue des Langues Romanes 82 (1976):
369 [coauthored with B. C. Weber].
"La Cigale," Poésie-USA, 2.4 (1979): 6.
"Sept Apostrophes Lunaires," Poésie-USA, 1.2 (1977): 2-3.
"Alabama" in L'Oiseau Solaire (Carpentras: Cercle Français de
Poésie, 1977): 16 (extract).
"Mothers' Willows," in A Collection of Poems by the Alabama
Society of Poets (Riverview: National Society of
Published Poets, 1976): 138.
Four poems in Sahara 6 (1975): 5-8.
Book
Theological, Medical, and Legal Subjection of Women in French Renaissance Texts [seeking funding for collection of materials].
Website exercises
Sabbatical leave during fall semester 2000 for production of Can8 and website exercises for elementary and intermediate French.
Website editions
Sabbatical leave during fall semester 2000 for continued posting of Laurent Joubert's Erreurs populaires [1578 Millanges edition].
Articles
Montaigne et le voyage (by invitation, presented at SAMLA 1997); under revision for publication.
Vox clamantis in deserto: In Memory of Clément Marot (SAMLA,
1996), recently revised for publication.
Papers Presented, Panels Chaired
Papers Read at Professional Conferences
"An Oraison of Clément Marot: Élégant badinage in the making," Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 1975.
"Cosmic Climax in a Sonnet from Pierre de Ronsard's Amours: Magnified Echoes of Petrarch's dolce riso," Annual Meeting, Southeastern Renaissance Conference, April 1976.
"Montaigne's Sweet Bitterness: The Paradox of philosophizing over Death," Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, April 1977.
"Rabelaisian Metaphors and the Twofold Theme of Creation and Procreation," Twenty-Seventh Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, October 1977.
"Paul Verlaine's Clair de Lune: Still More on bergamasques," TwentyEighth Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, October 1978.
"Renaissance Mirth: Laurent Joubert's Traité du Ris," Conference on Comedy in Western Literature and Art, UAB, November 1979.
"Sex and Medicine: Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth-Century France," Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 1980.
"Academic Programs in France: Problems and Some Solutions," Conference on American Academic Programs Abroad, Omaha, November 1980.
"Agrippa d'Aubigné's Erinyes: The History of a Field of Poetic Imagery," Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, Raleigh, April 1981.
"L'Anamorphose comme signe du Baroque," Thirty-Second Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, October 1982.
"Maurice Scève's Delie Revisited: One Year Later," Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, December 1982.
"Laughter as Metaphor: French Poetry of the Renaissance," Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, December 1982.
"Energeia in the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard and Agrippa d'Aubigné," Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, October 1983.
"Pierre Le Moyne's Saint Louys: or, the Destruction of Another French Epic," Southeastern Renaissance Conference, April, 1984.
"Vers un nouvel humour rabelaisien," International Colloquium on François Rabelais in Tours, France, September 1984.
"The Renaissance Wound: The Discourse of Power in Sixteenth-Century Medicine," Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November, 1985.
"The Trouble with Women," Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, April 1987.
"Joachim Du Bellay ou, le retour à la souffrance," Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November, 1988.
"La Nostalgie de Joachim Du Bellay: Plaisir ou Déplaisir?" International Colloquium on Joachim Du Bellay in Angers, France, May 1989.
"Ronsard's Dildo Sonnet: Poetic Consolation,"Southeastern Renaissance Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 1990.
"Inverted Erotic Imagery in Scève's Delie,"Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1990.
"Laurent Joubert et les passions impossibles," Intertional Colloquium at the Institut Claude Longeon (La Peinture des passions de la Renaissance à l'âge classique) Saint-Étienne, France, April 10-13, 1991.
"Légendes de la dignité humaine: du cas Rabelais au casum de Montaigne." International Colloquium (De Rabelais à Montaigne et leurs lecteurs (1495-1995): De la dignité de l'homme et de la femme) held at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 1995.
"Vox clamantis in deserto: In Memory of Clément Marot," Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association in Savannah, Georgia, November 1996.
"Montaigne and Mollities," Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, April 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
"Les Voyages de Montaigne: à la recherche de l'insolite." Annual
Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association in Atlanta, Georgia,
November 1997.
French I Section of the Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 1980.
Special Section ("Prefaces and Prologues to French Renaissance Prose
Texts") of the Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association,
October 1983.
Grants: Description of Projects Submitted as Director
Grant-in-aid from the Research Grants Committee, 1975, for preparation of a portion of an annotated translation of Laurent Joubert's Traité du Ris (1579), $1,700.00.
Grant-in-aid from the Research Grants Committee, 1976, for preparation of a portion of an annotated translation of Laurent Joubert's Traité du Ris (1579), $1,500.00.
Grant-in-aid from the Research Grants Committee, 1977, for preparation of a portion of an annotated translation of Laurent Joubert's Traité du Ris (1579), $2,000.00.
Grant-in-aid from the Research Grants Committee, 1978, for gathering of materials for the preparation of an annotated translation of Laurent Joubert's Erreurs Populaires (1578), $1,250.00.
Grant-in-aid from the Research Grants Committee, 1981, for manuscript preparation of a portion of an annotated translation of Laurent Joubert's Erreurs populaires (1578), $2,500.00.
Grant-in-aid from the Research Grants Committee, 1985, for preparation
of a theoretical article on laughter as metaphor, $1,500.00.
Prepublication Reviews for Professional Journals and University Presses
"Du Fail's Observations of Peasant Life in Propos Rustiques" for the South Atlantic Bulletin.
"Saint-Gelais's Use of Mythology and Legend in Le Sejour d'Honneur" for the South Atlantic Bulletin.
"A Critical Analysis of Robert Garnier's Antigone" for the South Atlantic Bulletin.
"Du Fail's Debt to Rabelais: Reflections of Gargantua and Pantagruel in the Stories of Propos Rustiques" for the South Atlantic Bulletin.
"Message and Symbol in French Renaissance Love Poetry" for the South Atlantic Bulletin.
"Relativity in 'Des Cannibales'" for the South Atlantic Bulletin.
"Genealogies and the Search for an Origin in the Works of François Rabelais" for the South Atlantic Bulletin.
"French Fabliaux Scholarship" for the South Atlantic Bulletin.
"Ronsard's La Lyre: The Poet-Seer and the Creative Process" for the Kentucky Romance Quarterly.
"Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron and Reader Response for The University of Alabama Press.
Translation of Autour de Montaigne by Roger Stéphane for Summa Publications.
One Hundred Renaissance Jokes for Summa Publications.
Towards a Poetics of Desire in Maurice Scève's Délie for French Forum Publishers.
Rabelais in Context: Selected Proceedings of the Vanderbilt Conference for Summa Publications.
"An Enigma: Montaigne, Admirer of Alcibiades" for the South Atlantic
Review.
Modern Language Association of America.
American Association of Teachers of French.
Association Internationale des Seiziémistes.
Institute for Renaissance Interdisciplinary Studies.
The Renaissance Society of America.
The Southeastern Renaissance Conference.
South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers.
Société d'Études du Seizième Siècle
Co-editor of Foreign Language Courier (the newsletter of the Americal Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
Secretary of French I Section of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 1978-1979.
Chairman of French I Section of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 1979-1980.
Member of the Nominating Committee of French I Section of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 1980-82.
Chairman of the Nominating Committee of French I Section of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 1982-83.
Chairman of Special Section on Prologues and Prefaces of French Renaissance Prose Texts, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 1983.
Member of the Nominating Committee of the Southeastern Rennaissance Conference, 1989-90.
Secretary of Graduate Studies Forum, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 1992-93.
Chair of Graduate Studies Forum, South Atlantic Modern Language Association,
1993-94.
Director of Alabama in France Program, 1980.
Director of Alabama in France Program, 1982.
Coordinator of Elementary French Courses, 1983-86.
Director of Alabama in France Program, 1985.
Director of Alabama in France Program, 1989.
Director of Graduate Studies, 1992-1994.
Nomination for the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award of the University of Alabama National Alumni Association, 1979.
Grand Prix du Lauréat Jean Moreas and the Médaille de la Ville de Carpentras, 1977, Cercle Français de Poésie, for a poem entitled "Alabama."
Nomination by Department as outstanding teacher for Arts and Sciences Dean's Award, 1987.
Nomination for the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award of the University of Alabama National Alumni Association, 1989.
Cecil and Ernest Williams Faculty Enhancement Award for 1991-92.