Klaus, Carrie F., Ph.D. - Faculty Bio

Global French Studies

Laurel H. Turk Professor of Modern Languages and Coordinator of the World Literature Program

A graduate of DePauw, Carrie F. Klaus is Professor of Modern Languages (French). She is the editor and translator of Jeanne de Jussie’s The Short Chronicle (University of Chicago Press, 2006), a Catholic nun’s account of the Protestant Reformation of Geneva, and the author of articles on Jussie, on Marguerite de Navarre, and on eighteenth-century Brussels-born writer and translator Cornélie Wouters. Her essays have appeared in Feminist Studies , Palimpsestes , and L’Esprit créateur , and in volumes published by the University of Chicago, Springer, the MLA, the Voltaire Foundation, and Brill. In 2017-2018, she was the recipient of a short-term fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library for her current research into women’s authority and expression in the political pamphlets of the seventeenth-century Fronde (Mazarinades). Her essay “Calling for Peace, Preparing for War: The Revolutionary Voice of Saint Genevieve during the Fronde” is forthcoming from the  Sixteenth Century Journal  in 2019.  She teaches all levels of French at DePauw.