Kathleen M. Llewellyn, Ph.D.
Professor of French
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Distance Education
College of Arts and Sciences
Education
Ph.D., Washington University
M.A., Washington University
M.B.A., Binghamton University
B.S., Binghamton University
Research Interests
Dr. Llewellyn鈥檚 research focuses on didactic and satirical literature in early modern France and on women as authors and as literary figures during that era. In addition to early modern literature, Dr. Llewellyn鈥檚 teaching interests include contemporary French and Francophone media, as well as medical and scientific French.
Publications and Media Placements
Books
Book: d鈥橝lbret, Jean. Letters from the Queen of Navarre with an Ample Declaration. Ed. and Trans. Kathleen M. Llewellyn, Emily Thompson, Colette H. Winn. Toronto: Iter Academic Press, 2016.
Book: Representing Judith in Early Modern French Literature. Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014.
Articles and Book Chapters
"Gossip, Comm茅rage et Caquets: Women鈥檚 Words in Early Modern France." Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern France. Edited by Nancy M. Frelick and Edith Benkov. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2024. 213-36.
"Jeanne d'Albret (1528-1572): Reformer and Queen." Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe: Profiles, Texts, and Contexts. Edited by Kirsi I. Stjerna. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2022. 177-186.
"A Fantastic Frenzy of Consumption in Early Modern France." Renaissance and Reformation.38.3 (2015) 119-140.
鈥淏eauty and Belief: Attitudes towards Female Beauty in Early Modern French Discourse.鈥� Female Beauty Systems: Beauty as Social Capital in Western Europe and the United States, Middle Ages to the Present. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
"Equal Opportunity Vengeance in the 贬别辫迟补尘茅谤辞苍 of Marguerite de Navarre." Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age. Ed. Albrecht Classen and Connie Scarborough. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2012. 415-35.
"The Example of Judith in Early Modern French Literature." The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across Disciplines. Ed. Kevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti, Henrike L盲hnemann. Cambridge: Open Book Publisher, 2010. 213-225.
"At Play in the Fields and Playing the Field: Le D茅bat amoureux in the Pastourelle and the 贬别辫迟补尘茅谤辞苍." Parergon 27.1 (2010). 105-24.
"Acting for God: Le Myst猫re de Judith et Holofern茅s." Studies in Early Modern France. 13 (2010). 41-64.
"Death Defines Her: Representations of the Widow in Early Modern French Literature." Love, Death and Women's Lives in French and Francophone Literature. Ed. Eilene Hoft-March and Judith Holland Sarnecki. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 214-40.
"Passion, Prayer, and Plume: Poetic Inspiration in the Oeuvres chr茅tiennes of Gabrielle de Coignard." Dalhousie French Studies. 88 (Fall 2009). 77-86.
"Deadly Sex and Sexy Death in Early Modern French Literature." Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: New Approaches to a Fundamental Cultural-historical and Literary Anthropological Theme. Ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2008. 811-35.
"Afin Que Vous Connaissiez, Mesdames: The Heptameron and Conduct Literature for Women." Approaches to Teaching Marguerite de Navarre鈥檚 Heptameron. MLA series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2007. 52-56.
"Love, Death and the Question of Suicide in the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre. " Amour, passion, volupt茅, trag茅die: Le sentiment amoureux dans la litt茅rature fran莽aise du Moyen Age au XXe 蝉颈猫肠濒别. Ed. Annye Castonguay, Jean-Fran莽ois Kosta-Th茅faine, and Marianne Legault. Paris: S茅guier, 2007. 83-97.
"Tears of Anger, Tears of Grief: Madeleine des Roches' Poetry of Widowhood." Allegorica. 26 (2004/2005). 18-32.
"Words to the Wise: Reappropriating the Widow in Early Modern Didactic Literature." Parergon, 21.1 (January 2004). 39-63.
"Les veuves de L鈥櫛岜鸨璩俨钩久┌遣� de Marguerite de Navarre," in Veufs, veuves et veuvage dans la France d'ancien r茅gime, textes r茅unis par Nicole Pellegrin, pr茅sent茅s et 茅dit茅s par Colette H. Winn. Paris: Champion, 2003. 159-68.
Recent Conference Presentations
"Comic Confession in Early Modern France," Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
St. Louis, MO, June 2019.
"Funny Felons and Comic Crimes in Early Modern French Literature," Renaissance Society
of America. New Orleans, LA, March 2018.
鈥淲ise Words or Wasted Breath? Preaching to Women in Early Modern France.鈥� SLU Symposium
on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis, MO, June 19, 2017.
"Anti-Woman Satire in Early Modern France: Complaints of le mal mari茅." Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference. Bruges, Belgium, August 2016.
"L鈥橝me mal coiff茅: Vice, vertu, et beaut茅 f茅minine au d茅but des temps modernes." Invited presentation, Universit茅 de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, October 2015.
"Reading Religieuses: Writing to and about Nuns in Renaissance France." Renaissance Society of America Conference, Berlin, Germany, March 2015.
"The Woman as Sin and as Punishment in Early Modern French Literature." Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference. New Orleans, LA, October 2014.
"Attitudes towards Female Beauty in Early Modern French Religious Discourse." Female Beauty Systems Throughout the Centuries. The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, Netherlands. November 2013.
"La Frenaizie fantastique Fran莽oise: Passionate Consumption of Boots, Baubles, and
Other Tempting Trifles in Early Modern France. " ConsumingPassions: Economies of Desire in French Literature and Arts, 1100-1815. Washington University, St. Louis, MO, October 4, 2013.
"The News in the Pews: Talking in Church and other Early Modern Social Networks."
Renaissance Society of America Conference. San Diego, CA, April 2013.
"Beauty School: Lessons on Female Beauty in Early Modern French Religious Discourse." Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference. Cincinnati, OH, October 2012.
"Writing in a Voice of Gossip: Women Storytellers in Early Modern France." Gossip鈥o much more than hearsay, An International, Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, May 2012.
"Preaching to Women: Early Modern French Sermons." Renaissance Society of America Conference. Washington, D.C., March 2012.