Fields of Specialization

• Women's Writing
• La Querelle des Femmes
• Embodiment
• Comparative Literature
• Fairy Tales
• Health Humanities
• Marguerite de Navarre

Awards and Honors

• 2021-22 BTAA DEO Fellow (CAS Representative)
• 2019 Honors Program Distinguished Teacher Award
• 2016 UNL CAS Distinguished Teaching Award

Professional Service

• Reviewer for Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, the University of Delaware Press French Studies 
• Delegate, MLA LLC 16th Century French forum (through 2025)
  Panel Chair, SCSC (2022, 2021, 2019)
• 2020-21 Participating Scholar, 72 days of Heptaméron (public reading project, Nov. 1, 2020-Jan. 11, 2021). https://72daysofheptameron.com/
• Founding Member, Marguerite de Navarre Society Co-organizer, ACLA 2012 conference in Providence, RI.
   

Affiliated Faculty

• Women's and Gender Studies
• Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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