Associate Professor of French Cultural Studies
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program | Women’s and Gender Studies Program | Global Studies Program
Publications
- Monograph
-Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2016).
-Monograph in progress,
From Law to Custom: Institutional Discourses in the Heptaméron
an exploration of the intersections of the Heptaméron and legal, religious, and courtly discourses of the Renaissance
- Editions and Collections
-Editor: Miracles of Love: French Fairy Tales by Women, edited by Nora Martin Peterson, with translations by Jordan Stump. MLA Texts and Translations Series (2021).
-Co-editor (with Lisa DeTora, Jodi Cressman, and Jeannie Ludlow), Embodiment in the Health Humanities. Forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan, expected 2023.
- Selected Peer-reviewed articles
-"What Does Rape Look Like? Textual and Visual Representations of Sexual Assault in the Heptaméron (1559)." Explorations in Renaissance Culture, vol. 49, no. 1 (2023): 82-120.
-"'Il me prit un frisson si grand': Writing the Body in the Mémoires and Letters of Marguerite de Valois." Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 17, no 1 (Fall 2022): 56-75.
-“Parler ou mourir: Speech and Danger in the Heptaméron.” Forthcoming, French Forum, vol. 27, no. 2-3, pp. 109-123.
-"Tracing the Origins of Success: Implications for Successful Aging," co-authored with Peter Martin, Iowa State University. Contribution: 75%. The Gerontologist 2014. DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnu054.
-"Competing Codes and Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in the Princesse de Clèves." The Romantic Review 103.1-2 (2012): 233-253.
-"'Innocence Interrupted:' Bewusstsein and the Body in Heinrich von Kleist." Colloquia Germanica 45.2 (2012): 129-143.
-"'The Truth Will Out:' Blushing Involuntary Confession and Self-Knowledge in the Heptaméron." Renaissance and Reformation 32.2 (2009): 33-52.
Courses Taught at Nebraska
- MODL/GLST 101, Windows to the World
- MODL 189H, Gender in World Literature
- MODL 291, Becoming American
- FREN 201/2/210, Intermediate French
- FREN 204, Advanced Composition
- FREN 301, Survey of French Literature I
- FREN 302, Themes in French Literature (Happiness)
- FREN/ENGL/WMNS/MRST 388, Body Language: Love, Politics, and the Self in French Literature
- FREN 445/845, Topics in Medieval and Early Modern French Writing: Love and Death
- FREN 445/845, French Autofiction
- FREN 457/857, Modern French Writing: The Refugee Experience
- FREN 482/882, Short Fiction: French Fairy Tales
- FREN 491/891, Forbidden Love
- MODL 870, Introduction to Literary Theory
- FREN 929, Survey of Medieval and Renaissance Literature
- FREN 929, French Women Writers
- FREN 929, Slow Reading Series: The Heptaméron
- FREN 929, Slow Reading Series: Montaigne
- FREN 929, La querelle des femmes