Kansas State University

Professor of French

corum@ksu.edu
Eisenhower Hall 214
(785) 532-1919

Books:

Reading Boileau: An Integrative Study of the Early Satires
La Poésie Française du Premier 17ème Siècle
Other Worlds and Other Seas: Art and Vision in Saint-Amant's Nature Poetry. Lexington: French Forum, 1979.
César de Nostredame, "Les Perles, ou les Larmes de la Saincte Magdeleine," édition critique. Exeter: Textes Littéraires, 1986.

Born near Chicago and raised in Virginia, Robert Corum received his Ph.D. in French language and literature from the University of Virginia in 1975.  He was a faculty member in French at the University of Southern of California before coming to the Department of Modern Languages at Kansas State.  Promoted to Professor in 1990, Corum served as Department Head from 2000 to 2011.  He has taught a wide array of French courses at KSU, currently concentrating on several graduate seminars on 17th and 18th century literature and a survey on medieval, early modern, and 18th century texts.  His publications have focused on the poetry of seventeenth-century France, with articles and books on such authors as Boileau, Saint-Amant, Tristan l’Hermite, Théophile de Viau, and such devotional poets as César de Nostredame.

Dr. Corum has won four teaching awards at K-State, and has been cited in other sources as an exemplary teacher.  He has received numerous grants from such sources as the National Endowment for the Humanities, The American Philosophical Society and the American Council of Learned Societies.