Carrie F. Klaus specializes in writing by women, and by writers posing as women, in early modern France (sixteenth through eighteenth centuries). She is the editor and translator, for the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series, of Jeanne de Jussie’s The Short Chronicle (University of Chicago, 2006), and the author of articles on Jussie and on Marguerite de Navarre, including “Shaping the Legacy of Louise de Savoie: A New Reading of the Heptaméron (Romance Notes, 2020). She is the recipient of short-term fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., (2017) and from the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, (2023) in support of her investigation of women’s voices in the political pamphlets of the seventeenth-century Fronde. In fall 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, she led the online collective reading project 72 Days of Heptaméron for the Marguerite de Navarre Society. Her most recent essays, on women’s voices in the Mazarinades of the Fronde, have appeared in Early Modern Women, in the Sixteenth Century Journal, and in edited collections. She has served as Vice President (2024) and as President (2025) of the Sixteenth Century Society.

• Ph.D. in French literature. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2000.
• M.A. in French literature. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1996.
• B.A. in English literature and French. أطة«´«أ½. 1993. Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude.

French language and literature, world literature, writing

PUBLICATIONS AND FELLOWSHIPS SINCE 2017
• “Christina in Paris, 1652: The Queen of Peace amid War in France.” Christina in Context: Queen Christina of Sweden at 400, eds. Theresa Kutasz Christensen, Camilla Kandara, and Ylva Haidenthaller. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. (Forthcoming in 2026.) [chapter in edited collection]
• “Becoming Joan of Arc in the Popular Press of the Fronde.” Women Warriors in the Early Modern World, eds. Lucia Gemmani and Paola Ugolini. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. (Forthcoming in 2026.) [chapter in edited collection]
• “[L]e bonet en teste, la pourpre sur les espaules: Les Dames, la justice, et les mazarinades.” Revue du GRHis (Groupe de recherches d’histoire) 1.1 (2025). http://publis-shs.univ-rouen.fr/grhis/index.php?id=132 [chapter in edited collection]
• “Wouters, Cornélie and Marie.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women’s Writing. Ed. Natasha Duquette. London: Palgrave-Macmillan. (Added to electronic edition November 16, 2024.) [encyclopedia entry]
• Short-Term Fellowship from the Herzog August Bibliothek to consult Mazarinades in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Summer 2023. [fellowship]
• “Shaping the Legacy of Louise de Savoie: A New Reading of the Heptaméron.” Romance Notes 60.3 (2020): 563-74. [peer-reviewed article]
• “Calling for Peace, Preparing for War: The Revolutionary Voice of Saint Genevieve during the Fronde.” Sixteenth Century Journal 51.2 (2020): 367-84. [peer-reviewed article]
• “The Sounds and Silence of the Early Reformation of Geneva in Jeanne de Jussie’s Short Chronicle.” Calvin and the Early Reformation, eds. David Whitford and Brian Brewer. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 96-112. [chapter in edited collection]
• “Eloquence Unchained: Women, Poetry, and Politics during the Fronde.” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 14.1 (2019): 25-49. [peer-reviewed article]
• “From désert to patrie: Marguerite de Navarre’s Lessons from the New World.” L’Esprit Créateur 57:3 (2017): 58-66. [peer-reviewed article]
• Short-Term Fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library for a study of women’s political authority and expression in the Fronde. Fall 2017. [fellowship]

• Vice President of Sixteenth Century Society (2024)
• President of Sixteenth Century Society (2025)
• Member of Executive Committee of SE17 (Société d’études pluridisciplinaires du dix-septième siècle français). Fall 2020-Fall 2021
• Organizer and leader of 72 Days of Heptameron online collective reading project (2020-2021)
• Co-organizer of SE17 (Société d’études pluridisciplinaires du dix-septième siècle français) virtual conference. Fall 2020.
• Reviewer of manuscript submissions to Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal and to Sixteenth Century Journal

• Short-Term Fellowship from the Herzog August Bibliothek to consult Mazarinades in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Summer 2023. [fellowship]
• Short-Term Fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library for a study of women’s political authority and expression in the Fronde. Fall 2017. [fellowship]

• Vice President of Sixteenth Century Society (2024)
• President of Sixteenth Century Society (2025)
• Member of Executive Committee of SE17 (Société d’études pluridisciplinaires du dix-septième siècle français). Fall 2020-Fall 2021
• Organizer and leader of 72 Days of Heptameron online collective reading project (2020-2021)
• Co-organizer of SE17 (Société d’études pluridisciplinaires du dix-septième siècle français) virtual conference. Fall 2020.
• Reviewer of manuscript submissions to Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal and to Sixteenth Century Journal

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS SINCE 2017
• “Des glaces d’Allemagne à la fange des Pays bas: Imaginary Friendships, Loves, and Alliances during the Blockade of Paris (1649).” Les mazarinades et l’international. Fribourg, Switzerland. March 2025.
• “‘La larme à l’oeil’: Tears and Ambivalence in the Heptaméron.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois. March 2024.
• “Misfortune and Memory: Revisiting the Strange, Sad Case of the Maréchale d’Ancre.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Baltimore, Maryland. October 2023.
• “Oh, would you like a longer letter? Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency’s Personal History of the Fronde.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 2023.
• “Chewing Tobacco with Mazarin: New World Tropes and the ‘Glocal’ Fronde.” SE17 (Société d’études pluridisciplinaires du dix-septième siècle français). Reykjavík, Iceland. October 2022.
• “‘[L]e bonet en teste, la pourpre sur les espaules’: Les dames, la justice, et les Mazarinades.” Mazarinades et territoires. Rouen, France. September 2022.
• “ ‘Cette’auguste Christine’: Evoking Queen Christina in Paris during the Late Fronde.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. Dublin, Ireland. March-April 2022.
• “Quarrels, Complaints, Remonstrances, and Tears: Weaponizing Domestic Discord in a Time of Crisis.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. San Diego, California. October 2021.
• “‘Une vraye seconde Pucelle d’Orleans’: Evoking Joan of Arc during the Fronde.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. Virtual conference. April 2021.
• “Mazarinades and Maisons d’Amour: Politics and Prostitutes in Early Modern Paris.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. St. Louis, Missouri. October 2019.
• “ ‘Dame de cent Chasteaux celebre’ : The Dowager Princess of Condé and the Politics of Mourning.” SE17 (Société d’études pluridisciplinaires du dix-septième siècle français). Charlotte, North Carolina. October 2019.
• “ ‘Je farons bien du bruit dans peu de tempt’: The Vociferous Fishwives of the Blockade of Paris in 1649.” SE17 (Société d’études pluridisciplinaires du dix-septième siècle français). Fribourg, Switzerland. December 2018.
• “ ‘Servez-vous de mon exemple’: Offering Queenly Advice to Anne d’Autriche during the Fronde.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico. November 2018.
• “Gendering Political Confrontation: Influence and Agency in Print During the English and French Civil Wars.” Workshop organizer. Attending to Early Modern Women. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. June 2018.
• “Eloquence Unchained: Women, Poetry, and Influence during the Fronde.” South Central Renaissance Conference. Atlanta, Georgia. April 2018.
• “The Watchful Eye of Louise de Savoie in the Heptaméron.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana. March 2018.
• “Shepherdess, Mother, Warrior, Peacemaker: Representing Women’s Power in the Figure of St. Geneviève During the Fronde.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 2017.
• “Jeanne de Jussie, the Sisters of St. Clare, and Resistance to Reformers in Geneva in the 1520s and 1530s.” Calvin Studies Society Colloquium. Baylor University. March 2017.