Edmund J. Campion

Major Field

Francophone literature ; 16th- & 17th-century French literature

Research Interests

• Francophone literature of Africa and the Caribbean.
• The influence of the classical and neo-Latin traditions on French writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Education

Ph.D., Yale University, 1976

Recent Publications

Several articles on Senghor and Cesaire. He is currently preparing a book-length study on the influence of Teilhard de Chardin on Senghor. A book, Montaigne, Rabelais, and Marot as Readers of Erasmus, was published in 1995. Other recent publications have dealt with Erasmus, the problems involved in preparing critical editions of the French literary works from the early modern period, Mme de Lafayette's novel La Princesse de Clèves, Quinault, and Montaigne, and Senghor’s poetry

Contact Information

Edmund J. Campion
Professor
601A McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-6995
E-Mail: ecampion@utk.edu