About the Author

The Author: John Lewis is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at The Queen's University, Belfast. He received his undergraduate and postgraduate studies from University College London, completing a Ph.D. on Para-Rabelaisian literature under the supervision of M. A. Screech. He has published widely in the field of French Renaissance literature, particularly on Rabelais and Ronsard, and is the author of Adrien Turnebe: A Humanist Observed (1998).