Kendall Tarte

Kendall Tarte, Professor of French Studies, received her Ph.D. in French Renaissance literature from the University of Virginia. She has published a book, Writing Places: Sixteenth-Century City Culture and the Des Roches Salon (University of Delaware Press, 2007), and articles in such journals as Romanic Review, Sixteenth Century Journal, Renaissance et Réforme, and French Review. Dr. Tarte is co-editor (with Jeff Persels and George Hoffmann) of Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature (Brill, 2017) and (with Anne Hardcastle and Roberta Morosini) of Coming of Age on Film: Stories of Transformation in World Cinema (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).

Her current research, which was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, studies how geographers, historians, and visual artists depicted France during the Wars of Religion in the sixteenth century. Dr. Tarte enjoys teaching courses at all levels, especially her French Studies seminars “Perspectives on Paris” and “Life of the Book” (FRH 370), and her First Year Seminar, “Paris: From Department Stores to Mystery Stories” (FYS 100).

FRH 111-154: Elementary and Intermediate French
FRH 212: Exploring the French and Francophone World
FRH 213 and 214 (Honors): Encounters in French and Francophone Literature and Culture
FRH 216: Studies in French Literature and Culture: “Growing up”
FRH 319: Composition and Review of Grammar
FRH 320: French Conversation
FRH 350: Studies in French Language and Culture (in Dijon, France)
FRH 370: Seminar in French and Francophone Studies: “Perspectives on Paris”; “Life of the Book”
FYS 100: First Year Seminar: “Paris: From Department Stores to Mystery Stories”

Tarte CV