Gary Ferguson (born March 19, 1963), a specialist of

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and culture, is the Douglas Huntly Gordon Distinguished Professor of French at the University of Virginia. From 1989, he taught at the

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, where he held the Elias Ahuja Professorship of French from 2012 to 2015.http://garyferguson.weebly.com/index.html Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures - R. Gary Ferguson Personal Page He graduated from

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, receiving a BA with first-class honours in 1985 and a Ph.D. in 1989. He is the author of ''Mirroring Belief: Marguerite de Navarre's Devotional Poetry'' (Edinburgh University Press, 1992), ''Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance: Homosexuality, Gender, Culture'' (Ashgate, 2008; London and New York : Routledge, 2016), and ''Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome: Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe'' (Cornell University Press, 2016), as well as of numerous articles dealing in particular with questions of gender and sexuality, women's writing,

devotional literature Christian devotional literature (also called devotionals or Christian living literature) is religious writing that Christianity, Christian individuals read for their personal growth and spiritual formation. Such literature often takes the form of C ...

and the cultural history of religion. He has edited or co-edited a number of collections of scholarly essays, including ''(Re)Inventing the Past: Essays on French Early Modern Culture, Literature and Thought in Honour of Ann Moss'' (2003, with Catherine Hampton), ''Narrative Worlds: Essays on the ‘Nouvelle’ in 15th- and 16th-Century France'' (2005, with David LaGuardia), ''L’Homme en tous genres : masculinités, textes et contextes'' (2008), and ''A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre'' (2013, with Mary B. McKinley). He has also published a critical edition of Anne de Marquets's ''Sonets spirituels'' (Geneva : Droz, 1997).

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Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome: Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe - Gary Ferguson - (Cornell, 2016)
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Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance: Homosexuality, Gender, Culture - Gary Ferguson - (Ashgate, 2008)
* Alumni of St Chad's College, Durham Living people University of Delaware faculty Place of birth missing (living people) 1963 births Scholars of French literature {{US-academic-bio-stub