Bernd Renner (Ph.D. Princeton, 2000) is Professor of French at CUNY (Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center). He has published three books and numerous articles on early modern literature, most notably on Rabelais, on Marot, and on satire.

Twenty-two eminent scholars of Early Modernity offer a thorough examination of the art and the main themes of François Rabelais's work in the larger context of European humanism.