About Anne R. Larsen

Senior Research Professor and Professor Emerita of French

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 Lycée de Sèvres, and finally at Clarendon School in North Wales. After teaching 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 ’39 and Betty DePree ’41 Van Kley Chair in 2011.

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PRINCIPAL AREA OF INTEREST:

Professor Larsen’s 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.

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EDUCATION:

• Ph.D., Columbia University

• M.A., Columbia University

• B.A., French and Spanish, Hope College

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LANGUAGES:

• French: Native Speaker

• Latin: Intermediate Reading competency

• Spanish and Italian: Reading and Speaking competency

• Dutch: Reading competency

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CURRENT SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:

• Board of Editorial Advisors, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (1988-current)

• Board of Editorial Advisors, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2018-current)

• Renaissance Society of America Mentoring Program (2017-current)

• Advisory Board Member of Projectvox (2019-current)

• Iter Press Editorial Board Member for the Iter Other Voice Series (2021-current) https://www.itergateway.org/iter–press/all