Donald RUNG
Associate Professor of French and French Studies
Gailor 217
(931) 598-1521
drung@sewanee.edu
Courses:
French Language Courses
French 403: The Seventeenth Century
French 410: French Senior Seminar
Education:
M.A., Ph.D. Romance Languages (French), Princeton University
B.A. History and Literature, Harvard College
Profile:
Donald Rung was inspired by a seventh-grade French teacher, Mrs. Kasmala, to continue French in high school and college, but unable to commit himself to a single subject, majored in History and Literature of England and France. At Harvard, a seminar given by Anna Cancogni exposed him to the beauties of French structuralist criticism, the study of which he pursued at the University of Hawaii and then Princeton. At Princeton he wrote his dissertation on Descartes' use of classical rhetoric, a subject that he continues to research. Other research interests include emblematics and, most recently, the place of money in the transition to the modern age.
Coming to Sewanee directly from the Northeast, where he grew up, he has fallen in love with the natural beauty of Sewanee's environment and the warmth of its people. He enjoys playing sports, playing the guitar, reading science fiction, and accompanying his children on their journey to adulthood.
