Brenton Kirk Hobart received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Romance Languages and Literatures in 2012 and is currently Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris. He holds the degrees of Licence, Maîtrise and Diplôme d’Études Approfondies from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne where he is also in the completion stages of his Doctorat. His theses deal with representations of the plague in sixteenth century French literature, taking into account narratives by Marot, Rabelais, Nostradamus, Boaistuau, Paré, Montaigne and d’Aubigné.