Hall Bjørnstad

Associate Professor of French and Director, Center for Renaissance Studies

Department:: French and Italian
Campus:: IU Bloomington

Global and International Studies 3135

Hall Bjørnstad is associate professor of French at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Renaissance Studies Program. He is: the author of The Dream of Absolutism: Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and of a monograph on Blaise Pascal; coeditor with Katherine Ibbett of an issue of Yale French Studies entitled Walter Benjamin’s Hypothetical French Trauerspiel; co-editor with Helge Jordheim and Anne Régent-Susini of Universal History and the Making of the Global; and the editor of Borrowed Feathers: Plagiarism and the Limits of Imitation in Early Modern Europe.

Hall Bjørnstad

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