Edwin M. Duval (born 11 January 1947) is a literary scholar specializing in works of the

French Renaissance The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period is associated with the pan-European Renaissance, a word first used by the French historian Jules Michelet to define ...

. Duval completed his bachelor's degree at

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in 1968, followed by a master's degree and doctorate from

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in 1971 and 1973, respectively. Upon obtaining his doctorate, Duval joined the

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

faculty. In 1977, he began teaching at the

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. Duval returned to Yale as a professor in 1987, and was named Henri Peyre Professor of French in 2012.

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