Professor Anne R. Larsen
Professor of French

Anne Larsen grew up overseas. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, she moved to Paris at the age of seven where she lived for ten years, studying at a French primary school, at the Lycée de Sèvres, and finally at Clarendon School in North Wales. She earned her BA at Hope College in French and Spanish, and her MA and Ph.D. at Columbia University. After teaching over a decade at Colgate University and the University of Tulsa, she returned to Hope where she is now professor of French. She is a specialist of French Renaissance and seventeenth-century writings by women intellectuals, and has published reviews, articles, critical editions, translations, and co-edited collections of essays. She has been awarded two year-long fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She enjoys traveling, gourmet cooking, gardening, and classical/jazz/world music.

Teaching Responsibilities

202. French IV	Hope Catalog
The French Connection 2 - French 202 Click here for a Word version of the syllabus

343. Contemporary France	Hope Catalog
Paris - French 343 Click here for a Word version of the syllabus

• FYS - Out of Africa: Narratives on Grace and Vocation
• French III - French Language and Culture
• French IV - Advanced French Language and Culture
• French 313 - Contemporary France
• French 342 - French Society from the Revolution to the 21st Century
• French 442 - Francophone Literature and Culture of Africa and the Americas
• French 495 - Studies in French Language and Literature

Teaching Interests

Intermediate Language and Culture; Paris: Myth and Reality; French and Francophone Drama; Francophone literature: Algeria, West Africa, Caribbean; Literary Theory; Early Modern French Society; Writings by French Women Intellectuals.

Course Links

Spring 2007:

• FREN 201-01: French III
• FREN 342-01: French Soc. from the Revolution to the 21st C.

Other:

• FYS- Fall 2006
• FREN 201-01: French III
• FREN 342-01: French Society from the Revolution to the 21st Century
• FREN 495-01: (Re)Imagining the Stage
• FREN 495-01: "Lettres de femmes, femmes de lettres"
• French Connection - French 201

French Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers; Epistolarity; Literary Theory; Translation; Poetic Theory.

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Madeleine and Catherine des Roches. Les Oeuvres . A Critical Edition. Geneva: Droz. Textes littéraires français, 1993. 459 pp.

Madeleine and Catherine des Roches. Les Secondes Oeuvres . A Critical Edition. Geneva: Droz. Textes littéraires français, 1998. 418 pp. (1998 Edition Honorable Mention, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women)

Madeleine and Catherine des Roches. Les Missives . A Critical Edition. Geneva: Droz. Textes littéraires français, 1999. 450 pp.

Madeleine and Catherine des Roches. From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters by Les Dames des Roches. A Bilingual Edition. Edited and translated by Anne R. Larsen. The Other Voice series. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006, 319 pp. (2006 Award for the Best Translation / Teaching Edition, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women)

EDITED COLLECTIONS

(With Colette H. Winn)
Renaissance Women Writers: French Texts/American Contexts. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994. 235 pp.

(With Colette H. Winn)
Women Writers in Pre-Revolutionary France: From Marie de France to Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 2000. 592 pp.

(With Carole Levine and Diana Robin)
Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance. Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO, 2007, 459 pp.

ARTICLES IN REFERENCE WORKS

Entry on the Dames des Roches, on Sixteenth-Century French Writers for the Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 327 (2006) : 128-132.

Entries on Madeleine and Catherine des Roches (2004), Marie de Cotteblanche (2005). In Dictionnaire des femmes de l'Ancienne France. http.//siefar.org

Entries on Clément Marot, La Pléiade, Lazare de Baïf, François de Malherbe, Etienne de La Boétie, Madeleine and Catherine des Roches, Guy du Faur de Pibrac, Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Joachim du Bellay. In Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Ed. Paul Grendler. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1999.

"Madeleine and Catherine des Roches," "Marie de Cotteblanche", "Renaissance Women and the Bible,". In The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature. Ed. Eva Sartori. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1999. 54-5; 129-30; 470-72.

"Les Dames des Roches," "Marie de Romieu," "Nicole Estienne, Dame Liébault". In An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Ed. Katharina Wilson. New York: Garland Press, 1991.

BOOK CHAPTERS

"Anne Marie de Schurman, Madeleine de Scudéry et les lettres sur la Pucelle." In Lectrices d’Ancien Régime. Ed. Isabelle Brouard-Arends. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2003: 269-279.

"Un combat de plumes: la traduction des lettres d'Anne Marie de Schurman sur l'éducation féminine." In D'une écriture à l'autre. Les femmes et la traduction sous l'Ancien Régime. Ed. Jean-Philippe Beaulieu. Ottowa: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottowa. "Collection Regards sur la Traduction." 2004: 139-153.

"The French Reception of Anna Maria van Schurman's Letters on Women's Education (1646)." In Women's Letters Across Europe 1400-1700: Form and Persuasion.. Ed. Jane Couchman and Ann Crabb. New York and London: Ashgate Press, 2005: 297-314.

"La correspondance de Louise de Bourges et de Gaspar de Saillans." In Lettres de femmes XVI e-XVII e siècle. Ed. Colette Winn and Elizabeth Goldsmith. Paris: Champion, 2005: 33-87.

"Catherine des Roches's Bergerie (1583)." In Women Writers in Pre-Revolutionary France: From Marie de France to Elizabeth Vigée-Le Brun. Ed. A. R. Larsen and C. H. Winn. New York: Garland, 2000: 151-169.

"La réflexivité dans les dialogues de Catherine des Roches," Paragraphes, Special Issue on Dans les miroirs de l'écriture. La réflexivité chez les femmes écrivains d'Ancien Régime, ed., J.-Ph. Beaulieu and D. Desrosiers-Bonin (1998): 61-71.

"Catherine des Roches, the Pastoral, and Salon Poetics." In Women Writers in Pre-Revolutionary France: Strategies of Emancipation. Ed. Colette H. Winn and Donna Kuizenga. New York, NY: Garland Publishers, 1997: 227-241.

"Marie de Cotteblanche: préfacière et traductrice de trois dialogues de Pierre Messie," Études Littéraires, a special issue on Ecrits de femmes à la Renaissance. Ed. Anne R. Larsen and Colette H. Winn, 27 (1994): 111-119.

"Chastity and the Mother-Daughter Bond: Odet de Turnèbe's Response to Catherine des Roches." In Renaissance Women Writers: French Texts/American Contexts. Ed. Anne R. Larsen and Colette H. Winn. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994: 172-188.

"The French Humanist Scholars: Les Dames des Roches". In Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. Ed. Katharina Wilson. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987: 232-259.

Articles in Early Modern Women, Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation, Allegorica, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Symposium, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature

BOOK REVIEWS

Over fifty reviews in The French Review, Sixteenth Century Journal, Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation, Allegorica, L’Esprit Créateur, Renaissance Studies.

CURRENT RESEARCH

The Star of Utrecht. Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-78) and the Seventeenth-Century Debate on Women's Education (monograph)

"Teaching Renaissance Women Writers' Influence on Each Other. The Case of Catherine des Roches," in Teaching French Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Colette H. Winn

MEMBERSHIPS

American Association of Teachers of French, Société française des Etudes du Seizième Siècle, SIEFAR (Société Internationale pour l’Etude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime), Renaissance Society of America, Women in French, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, Sixteenth Century Studies Asoociation

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