Carrie F. Klaus specializes in writing by women, and by writers posing as women, in early modern France (sixteenth through eighteenth centuries). She is the editor and translator, for the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series, of Jeanne de Jussie’s The Short Chronicle (University of Chicago, 2006), and the author of articles on Jussie and on Marguerite de Navarre, including “Shaping the Legacy of Louise de Savoie: A New Reading of the Heptaméron (Romance Notes, 2020). She is the recipient of short-term fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., (2017) and from the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, (2023) in support of her investigation of women’s voices in the political pamphlets of the seventeenth-century Fronde. In fall 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, she led the online collective reading project 72 Days of Heptaméron for the Marguerite de Navarre Society. Her most recent essays, on women’s voices in the Mazarinades of the Fronde, have appeared in Early Modern Women, in the Sixteenth Century Journal, and in edited collections. She has served as Vice President (2024) and as President (2025) of the Sixteenth Century Society.

Scholarly Publications: 

Carrie F. Klaus. “Shaping the Legacy of Louise de Savoie: A New Reading of the Heptaméron.” Romance Notes 60.3 (2020): 563-74.

Carrie F. Klaus. “Calling for Peace, Preparing for War: The Revolutionary Voice of Saint Genevieve during the Fronde.” Sixteenth Century Journal 51.2 (2020): 367-84.

Carrie F. Klaus. “Eloquence Unchained: Women, Poetry, and Politics during the Fronde.” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 14.1 (2019): 25-49.

Carrie F. Klaus. “From désert to patrie: Marguerite de Navarre’s Lessons from the New World.” L’Esprit Créateur 57:3 (2017): 58-66.

Jeanne de Jussie, The Short Chronicle. Edited and translated by Carrie F. Klaus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.