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Dr. Anne R. Larsen grew up overseas. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, she moved to Paris at the age of seven where she lived for 10 years, studying at a French primary school, at the Lyc茅e de S猫vres, and finally at Clarendon School in North Wales. After teaching over a decade at Colgate University and the University of Tulsa, she came to Hope College where she taught French from 1984 to 2016. She was awarded two year-long NEH Fellowships for College Teachers, and the first Endowed Lavern 鈥�39 and Betty DePree 鈥�41 Van Kley Chair in 2011.

Principal AREA OF INTEREST

Professor Larsen鈥檚 main field of research is the literary writings and the intellectual history, biography and education of European Renaissance and seventeenth-century women, particularly in France.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Columbia University
• M.A., Columbia University
• B.A., French and Spanish, 麻豆视频

Books

Anne Larsen鈥檚 first books are on a mother-daughter team in sixteenth-century Poitiers (France):

• Hommage 脿 Madeleine Neveu et Catherine Fradonnet, Dames des Roches de Poitiers, avec des textes d鈥橢. Berriot-Salvadore et d鈥橝. Larsen, La Rochelle: Rumeur des Ages, 1994
• Madeleine and Catherine des Roches, Les Oeuvres, A Critical Edition, Geneva: Droz, Textes litt茅raires fran莽ais, 1993
• Madeleine and Catherine des Roches, Les Secondes Oeuvres, A Critical Edition, Geneva: Droz, Textes litt茅raires fran莽ais, 1998 (awarded 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 litt茅raires fran莽ais, 1999
• Madeleine and Catherine des Roches, From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches. With Critical Introductions and Translation, The University of Chicago Press, 2006 (winner of the 2006 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender鈥檚 Award for a Scholarly Edition in Translation)

Her most recent books are on Anna Maria van Schurman (1607鈥�78), a Dutch Golden Age intellectual proficient in over a dozen languages:

• (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Routledge, 2016
• Anna Maria van Schurman, , edited by Anne R. Larsen and Steve Maiullo, The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, Toronto: Iter Academic Press, 2021 (winner of the 2021 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender鈥檚 Award for a Scholarly Edition in Translation).

Edited Collections

• Renaissance Women Writers: French Texts/American Contexts, with Colette H. Winn, Wayne State University Press, 1994
• Women Writers in Pre-Revolutionary France: From Marie de France to Elisabeth Vig茅e-Le Brun with Colette H. Winn, Garland Publishing, 2000
• Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance, with Carole Levine and Diana Robin, ABC-CLIO, 2007
  (Two Awards: Award for the best collaborative work published in 2007 from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women; The 2008 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Best Reference from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference)
• , with Julie D. Campbell, in the Series 鈥淲omen and Gender in the Early Modern World.鈥� Ashgate, 2009
  (Award: Honorable Mention in the category of Best Collaborative Project published in 2009 from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women)

Anne Larsen has published articles and book chapters on Madeleine and Catherine des Roches, H茅lisenne de Crenne, Louise Lab茅, Marie de Romieu, Marie de Cotteblanche, Marie de Gournay, Marie Bruneau des Loges, Marguerite de Navarre, Marie Crous, Marie Meurdrac, Jeanne Dum茅e, Martine de Bertereau, Madeleine de Scud茅ry, Anne de Rohan, Dorothy Moore, Bathsua Makin, and Anna Maria van Schurman.

Current Projects

• 鈥淎nna Maria van Schurman: Self-Portraiture, Female Scholarly Identity, and the Republic of Letters.鈥� Renaissance Quarterly, 72, No. 1 (Fall 2024), forthcoming.
• Book Review, Marguerite Buffet, New Observations on the French Language, with Praises of Illustrious Learned Women, in Early Modern Women, forthcoming.
• Martine de Bertereau and Marie Meurdrac, , ed. and trans. Anne R. Larsen and Colette H. Winn. Forthcoming from The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. 
• Anna Maria van Schurman, , ed. and trans. Anne R. Larsen and Steve Maiullo; with a foreword by Bo Karen Lee. On the list of volumes at The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series, #126.
• (With Steve Maiullo) 鈥淭he Making of a Woman Scholar: Anna Maria van Schurman (1607鈥�1678), Epistolarity, and the Republic of Letters.鈥� In submission.
• Book Review, Michelle DiMeo, Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle鈥檚 Sister, Sixteenth Century Journal, forthcoming.

Published in 2023鈥�2024

• Ad Navseam Podcast, 鈥�,鈥� Featuring Anne Larsen and Steve Maiullo, Interview by Drs. David Noe and Jeffrey Winkle, February 20, 2024, at 6:00 minutes following announcements.
• 鈥淯n R茅seau de correspondance au f茅minin: Les lettres manuscrites d鈥檃miti茅 entre Anna Maria van Schurman et ses condisciples transnationales dans l鈥橢urope du 17e si猫cle.鈥� In Harmoniques litt茅raires: M茅langes en l鈥檋onneur de Jean鈥揚hilippe Beaulieu, ed. Diane Desrosiers and Ren茅e鈥揅laude Breitenstein, 257鈥�72. Montreal: University of Montreal Press, 2024.
• 鈥楧ieu se servit de Jeanne d鈥橝rc鈥�: The Textual Public Identity and Political Agency of Martine de Bertereau, Baronne de Beausoleil (ca. 1584鈥揷a. 1645).鈥� In , ed. Nancy M. Frelick and Edith Benkov, 381鈥�405. New York/Toronto: Iter Press, 2024.
• (With Steve Maiullo) 鈥�: A Response to Aron Ouwerkerk,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;International Journal of The Classical Tradition, 30 (2023): 227鈥�231.
• (With Julie D. Campbell) 鈥淓arly Modern Women鈥檚 Writing and French Secular Networks.鈥� In Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith (eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women鈥檚 Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). 4
• 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Early Modern Women, 17. No. 2 (2023): 274鈥�98.
• (With Steve Maiullo) 鈥淥n Editing and Translating the 鈥楽tar of Utrecht鈥�: The Autograph Letters of Anna Maria van Schurman (1601鈥�1678) to Andr茅 Rivet and Constantijn Huygens,鈥� Women Writing, No. 4 (2023): 384鈥�402.
• Book Review, , 17. No. 2 (2023): 394鈥�97.

Published in 2022

• 鈥淢y friendship with her is by no means an ordinary one鈥�: The Friendship Alliances of Christian Hebraist Anna Maria van Schurman (1607鈥�1678),鈥�&苍产蝉辫;The Seventeenth Century, 37. no. 2 (2022): 255鈥�80. .
• 鈥�.鈥� In Portraits of Women Who Exemplified Themselves Through Their Faith (XVIth鈥揦VIIth Centuries). Special issue of Cahiers des Recherches M茅di茅vales et Humanistes(Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies), edited by Anne Larsen, Fran莽ois Rouget, and Colette Winn, 43.1 (2022): 329鈥�51.
• (With Julie D. Campbell) 鈥�.鈥� In Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith (eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
• (WithBo Karen Lee) 鈥�.鈥� In Margaret L. King (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018 (revised October 2022).
• Book Review, , in Early Modern Women, 16, No. 2 (2022): 334鈥�36. 

Published in 2020

• (With Colette H. Winn), 鈥�,鈥� Special Issue on 鈥淲riting/Creating in the Feminine in Early Modern France,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;L鈥橢sprit Cr茅ateur, 60. No. 1 (2020): 1鈥�8. DOI: For additional information about this article
• 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;L鈥橢sprit Cr茅ateur, 60. No. 1 (2020): 100鈥�12.
• Review of . Selected Philosophical, Scientific, and Autobiographical WritingsEarly Modern Women, No. 2 (2020): 161鈥�64.

Selected Conference Papers

• 鈥淭he Making of a Woman Intellectual: Anna Maria van Schurman鈥檚 Letter Exchanges with Three Savants.鈥� Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, 2024.
• 鈥淭he 1633 Self-Portrait of Anna Maria van Schurman as Transactional Agency.鈥� Virtual Conference, Renaissance Society of America, November 30, 2022.
• (With Steve Maiullo) 鈥淥n Editing and Translating the 鈥楽tar of Utrecht鈥�: The Autograph Letters of Anna Maria van Schurman (1601鈥�1678) to Andr茅 Rivet and Constantijn Huygens.鈥� International Symposium on Editing Women鈥檚 Letters Across Europe, 1500鈥�1800, 10 June 2022, Queen鈥檚 University, Belfast.
• 鈥溾赌�Dieu s鈥檈st servi de Jeanne d鈥橝rc鈥�: The Textual Public Identity of Mining Engineer Martine de Bertereau, Baronne de Beausoleil.鈥� Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Diego, October 2021.
• 鈥淪alons, Agency, and the Self-Representation of Three French Seventeenth-Century Women of Science.鈥� Women and Agency: Transnational Perspectives, c. 1450鈥�1790, Virtual Symposium, University of Oxford, June 2021.
• 鈥淎n Archived Network: Anna Maria van Schurman鈥檚 Manuscript Friendship Letters.鈥� Virtual Conference, Renaissance Society of America, April 2021.

Languages

• French: Native Speaker
• Latin: Intermediate Reading competency
• Spanish and Italian: Reading and Speaking competency
• Dutch: Reading competency

Selected Awards and Fellowships

• Lavern and Betty DePree Van Kley Endowed Chair
• 麻豆视频 Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Award, 2014
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, January鈥揇ecember 2005
• Visiting Scholar, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA Sabbatical, spring 2005
• Visiting Fellow, University of Notre Dame (sabbatical), fall 2004
• National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, 2002鈥�03
• NEH Institute on A Literature of Their Own? Women Writing: Venice, London, Paris 1550-1700. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001
• NEH Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, January鈥揇ecember 1997
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University, January鈥揇ecember 1997
• American Philosophical Society Travel Grants to Paris and The Hague, 1995 and 2002
• NEH-sponsored Folger Institute Weekend Faculty Seminar on Contextualizing Writing by Early Modern Women, 1995

Current Service to the Profession

• Board of Editorial Advisors, Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature (1988鈥揷耻谤谤别苍迟)
• Board of Editorial Advisors, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2018鈥揷耻谤谤别苍迟)
• Editorial Board Member for the  (2021鈥揷耻谤谤别苍迟)