Brenton Hobart

Dr. Brenton Hobart is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris, holding doctorates from Harvard University and Sorbonne Université. His research specializes in Renaissance literature and plague representation.

Research focuses on:

• Literary depictions of epidemic disease
• Early modern medical discourse
• Renaissance translation practices
• Monstrosity in early modern texts
• Shakespearean adaptation studies

His monograph 'La Peste à la Renaissance' (2020) received the Académie Française's Prix Monseigneur Marcel. Current projects examine anatomical metaphors in Rabelais and Shakespeare reception in French cinema. He teaches courses on Shakespeare, the Bible as literature, and early modern monstrous imagery, while supervising graduate thesis projects in comparative literature.