EDUCATION

Ph.D. in French literature. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  2000.
Dissertation: Neither Male nor Female in Christ? The Construction of Gendered Identities in Women’s Writing of the French Reformation (1521-1561).
M.A. in French literature. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  1996.
B.A. in English literature and French. DePauw University. 1993. Summa cum laude.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor of French.  DePauw University.  2006-
Assistant Professor of French.  DePauw University.  2000-2006.
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Department of French, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  1993-94, 1995-98, 2000.
Assistante d’anglais.  Lycée Camille Guérin, Poitiers, France.  1994-95.

TRANSLATION

Jeanne de Jussie, The Short Chronicle.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

EDITION

Marguerite de Navarre, L’Heptaméron.  Newark, Delaware: European Masterpieces, 2008.

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

“Jeanne de Jussie’s Petite chronique: A Reformation Story from within the Cloister Walls.”  In Teaching French Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Colette H. Winn.  New York: Modern Language Association.  (Forthcoming in 2008.)

“Keeping Ahead of the English?  A Defence of Jews by Cornélie Wouters, Baroness of Vasse (1790).  In Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800, eds. Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green.  Dordrecht: Springer, 2007.  171-88.

“Reading Jeanne de Jussie’s Short Chronicle with First-Year Students.”  In Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe, eds. Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil, Jr.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.  127-36.

 “ ‘Une école des moeurs & de la morale: How the Wouters sisters made English theater French.”  Palimpsestes 20 (2007): 79-96.

“Secret Marriages and Cell Phones: Teaching Boccaccio’s Decameron and Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron Through Storytelling.”  Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction 5:2 (2005): 108-14.

 “Architecture and Sexual Identity: Jeanne de Jussie’s Narrative of the Reformation of Geneva.”  Feminist Studies 29: 2 (2003): 279-97.

DICTIONARY AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“Jeanne de Jussie.”  The Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France and England.  Eds. Anne Larsen, Carole Levin, and Diana Robin.  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007. 192.

 “Cornélie Wouters, Baronne de Vasse (Wasse).”  Dictionnaire en ligne des femmes de l’Ancienne France.  Ed. Eliane Viennot et al.  Paris: Société Internationale pour l’Étude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime. http://www.siefar.org/DictionnaireSIEFAR/SFWoutersC.html

“Marie Wouters.”  Dictionnaire en ligne des femmes de l’Ancienne France.  Ed. Eliane Viennot et al.  Paris: Société Internationale pour l’Étude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime.  http://www.siefar.org/DictionnaireSIEFAR/SFWoutersM.html

REVIEWS

Review of Writing Places: Sixteenth-Century City Culture and the Des Roches Salon, Kendall B. Tarte.  Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 2007.  Women in French Studies.  (Forthcoming in 2008.)

Review of Women, Gender and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe, ed. Sylvia Brown.  Leiden: Brill, 2007.  Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal.  (Forthcoming in 2008.)

Review of Voix des abbesses du Grand Siècle: La Prédication au féminin à Port-Royal, Thomas M. Carr, Jr.  Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006.  Renaissance Quarterly.  (Forthcoming in 2008.)

Review of Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage, eds. John Witte, Jr., and Robert M. Kingdon.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2005.  Vol. 1 of Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin’s Geneva, eds. Don S. Browning and John Witte, Jr.  Journal of the History of Sexuality.  (Forthcoming in 2008.)

Review of Sur le vif!, 4th ed., Hannelore Jarausch and Clare Tufts.  Boston: Heinle Thomson, 2006.  The French Review 81:2 (2007): 394-95.

Review of Oeuvres spirituelles: Textes originaux et traductions françaises inédites du XVIe siècle, Catherine Parr; ed. Guy Bredouelle.  Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006.  Renaissance Quarterly 60:1 (2007) 283-85.

Review of L’Enfant noir, Camara Laye; eds. Myrna Bell Rochester and Natalie Schorr.  Newburyport, Massachusetts: Focus/R. Pullins, 2005.  Women in French Studies 14 (2006): 153-55.

Review of Lettres de femmes: Textes inédits et oubliés du XVIe au XVIIIe siècles, eds. Elizabeth C. Goldsmith and Colette H. Winn.  Paris: Honoré Champion, 2005.  Renaissance Quarterly 59:1 (2006): 178-80.

Review of La Grammaire à l’oeuvre, 5th ed., John Barson.  Boston: Heinle Thomson, 2004.  The French Review 79:3 (2006): 631-32.   

Review of Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin, Marie Dentière; ed. and trans. Mary B. McKinley.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.  Women in French Studies 13 (2005): 142-44.

Review of The Power and Patronage of Marguerite de Navarre, Barbara Stephenson.  Hants, England: Ashgate, 2004.  Sixteenth Century Journal 36:3 (2005): 833-34.

Review of Langue Atout, Anne-Marie Boucher and Jean-Pierre Gagné.  Québec: Franco Son, 2004.  The French Review 78:5 (2005): 1038-39.

Review of Excentricité et humanisme: Parodie, dérision et détournement des codes à la Renaissance, Patricia Eichel-Lojkine.  Geneva: Droz, 2002.  Sixteenth Century Journal 36:1 (2005): 217-19.

Review of Argumentaires de l’une et l’autre espèce de Femme: Le statut de l’exemplum dans les discours littéraires sur la femme (1500-1550), Marie-Claude Malenfant.  Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2003.  Renaissance Quarterly 57:4 (2004): 1421-22.

Review of ClassPak for French: Online Proficiency-Based Classroom Lesson and Quiz Creation.  Eugene, OR: Language Learning Solutions, 2003.  The French Review 78:1 (2004): 167-68.

Review of Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing, Floyd Gray.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.  Women in French Studies 11 (2003): 103-04.

Review of Early Modern Women’s Letter Writing, 1450-1700, ed. James Daybell.  New York: Palgrave, 2001.  Sixteenth Century Journal 33:4 (2002): 1183-84.

Review of Le Jeu du Prince des Sotz et de Mere Sotte, Pierre Gringore;  ed. Alan Hindley.  Paris: Editions Honoré Champion, 2000.  Sixteenth Century Journal 33:3 (2002): 845-46.

CONFERENCES AND TALKS

“Jeanne de Jussie’s Short Chronicle and the Perils of Translation.”  Invited participant on panel on “Editing and Translating Early Modern French Texts” arranged by the Division on Sixteenth-Century French Literature.  Modern Language Association Annual Convention.  San Francisco, California.  December 2008.  (Upcoming)

“Vamps and Villains in the Classroom.”  Workshop organizer.  Attending to Early Modern Women—and Men.  University of Maryland.  November 2006.

“ ‘Une école des moeurs & de la morale’: How Cornélie Wouters made English Theater French.”  Translation as Commentary: Going from Translation as Commentary to Commenting on Translation.  Institut du Monde Anglophone, Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France.  October 2006.

“ ‘I am amaz’d, but must conceal my Wonder’: Gazing at Stars with Aphra Behn.” Aphra Behn Society Annual Meeting.  Daytona Beach, Florida.  October 2005.

“A Defense of Jews by a Transnational Baroness in Revolutionary France.”  Toward a History of Women’s Political Thought: 1400-1800.  Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.  July 2005.

“ ‘Nothing but what I wanted it to be’: Cornélie Wouters’ Allegory of Revolution in America.”  Midwest America Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference.  St. Louis, Missouri.  October 2004.

“Divine Disruptions: Early Modern Female Mystics and Prophets.”  Workshop organizer.  Attending to Early Modern Women: Structures and Subjectivities.  University of Maryland.  November 2003.

“Scoring a Trip to the Moon in Eighteenth-Century France: Cornélie Wouters’ Le Char volant (1784).” Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference. The Huntington Library; San Marino, California.  February 2003.

“Spiritual geography in the Guerre et deslivrance de la ville de Genesve (1536).”  Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.  San Antonio, Texas.  October 2002.

“Manger et boire: The Taste of Earth and Heaven in Marguerite de Navarre’s Prisons.” 2nd Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film, and the Other Arts.  University of Texas at San Antonio.  February 2002. 

“ ‘C’est vertu virille’: The Virago in Guillaume Briçonnet’s Letters to Marguerite d’Angoulême (1524).”  Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.  Denver, Colorado.  October 2001.

“Un lieu à son advantaige: Negotiations of Space in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron.”  Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting.  Chicago, Illinois.  March 2001.

“Telling Women’s Lives: The Representation of Intimate Space.”  Workshop organizer.  Attending to Early Modern Women: Gender, Culture, and Change.  University of Maryland.  November 2000. 

“From Pescheresse to Prescheresse: Women and the Word in the French Reformation.”  Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.  Cleveland, Ohio.  November 2000. 

“Convent walls and the woman’s body: Shaping a narrative of the Genevan Reformation.”  First Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History.  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  March 2000.

“(Re)dressing John Calvin: The Gendered Body of the Christian in Reformed Geneva.”  Constructing Identity: Republics, Nations, and Cultures.  Second Colloquium of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.  University of Sydney.  February 2000.

“Theology in the Cloister: Jeanne de Jussie’s Miracle Tales.”  French Forum.  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  November 1999.

“La présence réelle:  Le genre du corps chrétien selon Jean Calvin.”  Work in progress presented at the Faculté de Théologie Protestante in Strasbourg, France, and at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours, France.  April 1999.

“Lutes and Ladies: The Re-gendering of Sonnet Space by Louise Labé and Mary Wroth.”  Graduate Student Conference. The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies; Chicago, Illinois. June 1998. 

“Bon pied, bon œil: Focalization in Rabelais’ Pantagruel.”  Eleventh Annual Medieval- Renaissance Conference.  Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia.  September 1997. 

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

AP Faculty Consultant.  Scored essay component of French language AP exam for Educational Testing Service (ETS).  June 2002, 2003, 2006.

Déléguée régionale.  Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d’Amérique.  January 2003 -  .