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Fisher Bennett Hall, Suite 345
Room 343

Scott Francis is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair of the Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A scholar of sixteenth-century French literature, culture, and thought, Scott published his first book, Advertising the Self in Renaissance France: Lemaire, Marot, and Rabelais, with the University of Delaware Press in 2019. It describes how printed editions of Lemaire de Belges, Marot, and Rabelais anticipate modern advertising techniques in their use of rhetoric and self-fashioning to represent the author and reader. He is working on a second book project whose goal is to give Marguerite de Navarre and her circle the place they deserve in the history of tolerance. He has published articles on a range of medieval and Renaissance authors and texts, and he is also the founding member of the Marguerite de Navarre Society/Société Marguerite de Navarre, an informal association of scholars from multiple disciplines working on Marguerite, her associates and networks, and the early French Renaissance in general.