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Dr. Theresa Varney Kennedy Baylor University, Modern Languages & Cultures Division of French & Italian One Bear Place #97392, Waco, TX 76798 [email protected] (Office) 254-710-4425 Education: Ph.D. in Modern French Studies, May 2007 University of Maryland, College Park Dissertation Director: Dr. Hervé Thomas Campangne Françoise Pascal’s ‘Agathonphile martyr, tragi-comédie’: An Annotated Critical Edition M.A. in French, May 2001 University of Maryland, College Park Buffalo State College, Jan 1997−May 1998 Teaching Certificate of Qualification in French Cours de Civilisation Française de la Sorbonne, Sep 1996−Jan 1997 Study abroad through the State University at Oswego in Paris, France B.A. in French, Jan 1997 University at Buffalo, New York B.A. in Music Performance, May 1996 University at Buffalo, New York Academic Employment History: 2020−present Professor of French, Baylor University 2014−2020 Associate Professor of French, Baylor University 2008−2014 Assistant Professor of French, Baylor University 2007−08 Professorial Lecturer, Catholic University & American University 2003−04 Lecturer in English, The University of Nice, France 1999−2003; 2004−07 Graduate Teaching Assistant, The University of Maryland Refereed Publications: Book Kennedy, Theresa Varney. Women’s Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women’s Theater (1650–1750). New York: Routledge, 2018. Dr. Theresa Varney Kennedy 2 Critical Editions Maintenon, Madame de. Proverbes dramatiques. Eds. Perry Gethner and Theresa Varney Kennedy. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. Kennedy, Theresa Varney. Françoise Pascal’s ‘Agathonphile martyr, tragi-comédie’: An annotated critical edition. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, « Biblio 17 », 2008. Articles and Book Chapters Jortner, David and Theresa Kennedy. “Corneille versus the French Academy: Teaching Le Cid through Courtroom Drama.” Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy. Ed. Hélène Bilis and Ellen McClure. New York: Modern Language Association. (Forthcoming 2021). Kennedy, Theresa. “Women’s Honesty in Molière’s Theater.” L’Honnêteté au Grand Siècle: Belles Manières et Belles Lettres. Ed. Marcella Leopizzi. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, « Biblio 17 » (2020): 365−377. Kennedy, Theresa. “The Tyrannical Mother in Madame de Staal-Delaunay's Eighteenth-Century Comedy.” Women in French Studies 27 (2019): 89−99. Kennedy, Theresa. “Early Modern Women’s Mobility in French Women’s Theater.” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 14.1. (2019): 119−130. Kennedy, Theresa. “Revisiting the ‘Woman Question’ in Molière’s Theater.” Molière Re-envisioned. Twenty-first Century Retakes / Renouveau et renouvellement moliéresques. Reprises contemporaines. Ed. Giovanni Dotoli. Paris: Éditions Hermann (2019): 417−441. Kennedy, Theresa. “Theater and Religious Education: The Case of Madame de Maintenon’s Pedagogical Plays.” Journal of Christianity and World Languages 18 (2017): 21−34. Kennedy, Theresa. “From Stage to Cloister: Madame de Maintenon’s Classroom Drama.” Guilty Pleasures: Theater, Piety and Morality in 17th-Century France. Ed. Joseph Harris and Julia Prest. Yale French Studies No. 130 (2016): 110–122. Kennedy, Theresa. “Cultivating Their Gardens: Women and the Art of Home Economics in Madame de Maintenon’s Dramatic Proverbs.” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XLIII, No. 85 (2016): 363–377. Kennedy, Theresa Varney. “‘No Exit’ in Racine’s ‘Phèdre’: The Making of the Anti-Hero.” The French Review 88.1 (2014): 165–178. Kennedy, Theresa Varney. “From mauvaise mère to bonne mère: The Making of Republican Mothers in Women’s Pedagogical Theater.” Dalhousie French Studies 102 (Summer 2014): 81–90. Dr. Theresa Varney Kennedy 3 Kennedy, Theresa Varney. “A Mind of Her Own: La Princesse de Clèves and the Making of the Female Hero in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Tragedy.” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XLI, No. 81 (2014): 365–378. Kennedy, Theresa Varney. “Staging the Impossible femme forte in Maintenon’s Dramatic Conversations.” Women’s Voices: Critical Essays on Francophone Women’s Theater. Ed. Cecilia Beach and Joyce Johnston. Women in French Studies 5 (2014): 62–75. Kennedy, Theresa Varney. “Gender performance in 17th-Century Dramatic Dialogue: From the Salon to the Classroom.” Cahiers du Dix-Septième: An Interdisciplinary Journal 15.1 (2013): 1–18. Kennedy, Theresa Varney. “Female Playwrights and their filles rebelles in 17th-century France.” Rebelles et criminelles chez les écrivaines d’expression française. Ed Colette Trout and Frédérique Chevillot. Atlanta/Amsterdam: Rodopi, “Faux Titre” (2013): 45−61. Kennedy, Theresa Varney. “Madame de Maintenon’s Proverbes Inédits: Words to Live By.” Women in French Studies 18 (2010): 29−42. Kennedy, Theresa Varney. “Metatheatricality and Subversion in the Comtesse de Murat’s Voyage de Campagne.” Neophilologus 94.4 (2010): 557−567. Kennedy, Theresa Varney. “Tragic Irony in Catherine Durand’s Comédies en proverbes.” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XXXVII, No. 72 (2010): 117−128. Book Reviews Van Elslande, Jean-Pierre. L’Âge des Enfants (XVIe-XVIIe Siècles). French Studies: A Quarterly Review 74.3 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knaa114. Théâtre et Peuple: De Louis-Sébastien Mercier à Firmin Gémier. Ed. Olivier Bara. Nineteenth- Century French Studies 47.1-2 (2018), http://www.ncfs-journal.org/?q=node/1572. Théâtre de femmes de l'Ancien Régime: XVIIIe siècle. Ed. Aurore Evain, Perry Gethner, and Henriette Goldwyn. Women in French Studies 25 (2017): 201–203. Madame de Villedieu, Les Amours des grands hommes. Ed. Nathalie Grande. French Studies: A Quarterly Review 71.3 (2017): 410−411. Madame de Souza, Eugénie et Mathilde, ou Mémoires de la famille du Comte de Revel. Ed. Kirsty Carpenter. New Zealand Journal of French Studies 36.1 & 2 (2015): 161−162. Legault, Marianne. Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature. The French Review 88.1 (2014): 234−35. Dr. Theresa Varney Kennedy 4 Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers. Ed. and Trans. Lewis C. Seifert & Domna C. Stanton. Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 7 (2012): 338−339. Théâtre de femmes de l'Ancien Régime: XVIIe siècle. Ed. Aurore Evain, Perry Gethner, and Henriette Goldwyn. Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature 36.71 (2009): 300−303. Translation Redalié, Yann. “‘Working with one’s Hands’: One Model, Many Applications.” Paul and the Heritage of Israel: Paul’s Claim upon Israel’s Legacy in Luke−Acts in the Light of the Pauline Letters. Ed. D. Marguerat, D. P. Moessner, M. Parsons and M. Wolter. Trans. Michael D. Thomas, Alexandre Thiltges, and Theresa Varney Kennedy. Vol. 2. New York: T & T Clark, 2012. Published Conference Proceeding Kennedy, Theresa. “La Comédie et la Tragédie à la cour de La Bruyère.” Francographies: Actes du sixième Colloque: Création et Réalité d’Expression Française, N Spécial 4 Nouvelle Série (2002): 83−98. Work in Progress: Critical Edition and Translation Maintenon, Madame de. Madame de Maintenon’s Dramatic Proverbs. Trans. Paige Tierney. Ed. and introduction by Theresa Varney Kennedy. (Placed at # 53 on the list of future volumes at The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series: http://www.othervoiceineme.com/othervoice-toronto.html) Book Chapter Kennedy, Theresa. “Enchantment and Disenchantment in Madame de Maintenon’s Pedagogical Theater.” (Under review at Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal). Peer-Reviewed Book Review Databases, Revenues, and Repertory: The French Stage Online, 1680-1793 / Données, recettes, & repertoire. La scène en ligne (1680-1793). Ed. by Sylvaine Guyot and Jeffrey S. Ravel. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2020. (Slated to appear in H-France Review) Conference Papers: La Folie sur scène: L’angoisse de l’auctorialité chez les femmes dramaturges. International Dr. Theresa Varney Kennedy 5 Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude des Femmes de l'Ancien Régime on “Femme et folie sous l’Ancien Régime,” L’Université d’Arras, France, Mar 25−26 2021. Early Modern French Women Playwrights and Authorial Strategies. The Renaissance Society of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Apr 2−4 2020. Conference canceled. From the Margins to Center Stage: Early Modern French Women Playwrights and Authorial Strategies. 10e Conférence Internationale Women in French “Voix et voies des marges,” Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, May 14−16 2020. Conference canceled. Children’s Literature in French: A Window into the Seventeenth-Century. Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Oct 10–12 2019. Enchantment and Disillusion in Madame de Maintenon's Dramatic Proverbs. 49e Congrès de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 16–18 2019. Mlle Huau, Heroines, and The Hague French Comedy. South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, Texas, Oct 11–14 2018. Women’s honesty in Molière’s theater. 48e Congrès de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, Jun 27–30 2018. The Tyrannical Mother in Marguerite-Jeanne de Staal's Eighteenth-Century Comedy. Women in French International Conference, The Winthrop-King Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, Feb 8–10 2018. Women Behaving Badly in the Théâtre de Société of the Early Modern Period. Women in French UK 14th Biennial Conference, Hinsley Hall, Leeds, United Kingdom, May 19–21 2017. Deliberating the Rational