Cathy Yandell

Cathy Yandell is a writer, professor, and scholar of French literature and culture. She is the W. I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor Emerita of French and Francophone Studies at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, United States.[1] In 2019, she was named a Chevalier (Knight) in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government.[2][3][4][5]

Education and career

Yandell earned a diploma from the Institut des Professeurs de Français à l’Étranger at the Sorbonne in 1970, a Bachelor of Arts in French from the University of New Mexico in 1971 and a Ph.D. in French literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977.[1][6]

Yandell is the W. I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor of French Literature, Language, and Culture at Carleton College, where she teaches in the Department of French and Francophone Studies.[7][8]

Yandell served as Vice President of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in 2010 and subsequently as president in 2011.[9] Yandell has held roles in scholarly organizations, including serving on the executive committee of the Modern Language Association’s division on sixteenth-century French literature and culture, where she also served as Chair for two terms.[10]

She has also served on the editorial boards of French Review[11], Women in French,[12] and French Forum,[13] and in France by her participation in the Société française des études du seizième siècle and in the honorary committees of scholarly. She also served as President of the Faculty at Carleton College.[6] [7] She has received fellowships from the University of California,[14] the Mellon Foundation, the Bush Foundation, Carleton College, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.[6]

Research and scholarly works

Yandell’s scholarship focuses on early modern French literature and culture,[15] a period marked by the convergence of Renaissance humanism,[16] religious conflict, emerging notions of individuality, and major cultural transformation.[17][18]

In Carpe corpus: Time and gender in early modern France (2000), Yandell examines the intersections of time, the body, and gender in sixteenth-century French culture.[19][20]

Her other works include Memory and community in sixteenth-century France (2015), which she co-edited with David P. LaGuardia.[4]

Her work co-edited with Colette H. Winn, Vieillir à la Renaissance (2009; reprinted 2023) examines literary and cultural representations of aging, bodily decline, and social value.[3]

In 2023 she published The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World (2023).[5]

Selected publications

Books

  • LaGuardia, David P.; Yandell, Cathy (3 March 2016). Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-09769-3.
  • Winn, Colette H.; Yandell, Cathy M., eds. (2009). Vieillir à la Renaissance. Colloques, congrès et conférences sur la Renaissance européenne. Paris: Champion. ISBN 978-2-7453-1746-9.
  • Yandell, Cathy (2000). Carpe Corpus: Time and Gender in Early Modern France. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 978-0-87413-704-0.
  • Carpenter, Scott Dominic, ed. (1996). Vagabondages littéraires: initiation à la littérature d'expression française. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-011444-9.
  • Yandell, Cathy (2023). The French art of living well: finding joie de vivre in the everyday world (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-250-77798-0.

Selected articles

References

  1. 1 2 Thompson, Pamela (16 May 2023). "French art of living well explored in Carleton professor's new book". Southernminn.com. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  2. ↑ Misra, Arya. "French professor Cathy Yandell receives knighthood from French government". The Carletonian. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  3. 1 2 Calhoun, Alison; Winn, Colette H (2009). "Review of Vieillir à la Renaissance, Colette H. Winn". Renaissance Quarterly. 62 (4): 1228–1229. doi:10.1086/650042. ISSN 0034-4338.
  4. 1 2 Usher, Phillip John. "Conversations with People who read Montaigne: Cathy Yandell". NYU. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  5. 1 2 Hulstrand, Janet (20 May 2023). "Cathy Yandell, Author of The French Art of Living Well". France Today. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  6. 1 2 3 "Cathy Yandell W.I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Emerita, French and Francophone Studies". www.carleton.edu. 20 July 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  7. 1 2 Daniell, Hulda F. (23 February 2015). "Yandell gives a talk at the University of Minnesota - Carleton College". www.carleton.edu. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  8. ↑ Usher, Phillip John. "Conversations With People Who Read Montaigne Cathy Yandell". NYU. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  9. ↑ "Historical List of Society Leadership". Sixteenth Century Society. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  10. ↑ "Forum Executive Committees French" (PDF). Cambridge.
  11. ↑ Pinet, Christopher P. (2010). "From the Editor's Desk: Report for the French Review, 2009–2010". The French Review. 84 (1): 9–11. ISSN 0016-111X.
  12. ↑ "Project MUSE - Women in French Studies-Volume 27, 2019". muse.jhu.edu. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  13. ↑ "Front Matter". French Forum. 44 (2). 2019. ISSN 0098-9355.
  14. ↑ Payne, Luna Schindler- (22 September 2022). "Cathy Yandell to give annual Argument and Inquiry Seminar Convocation - Carleton College". www.carleton.edu. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  15. ↑ "The Keys to Mastering French Style". Air Mail (magazine). Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  16. ↑ bobhud (17 April 2023). "Eros and Authority: Rereading Pontus de Tyard's Solitaires". Lingua Romana. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  17. ↑ Studies, French and Francophone (3 May 2016). "Cathy Yandell Presents at the Renaissance Society of America in Boston. - Carleton College". www.carleton.edu. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  18. ↑ Hulstrand, Janet. "demystifying the French". Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  19. ↑ Yandell, Cathy (2000). Carpe Corpus: Time and Gender in Early Modern France. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 978-0-87413-704-0.
  20. ↑ Posner, David M. (2002). "Carpe Corpus: Time and Gender in Early Modern France. Cathy Yandell". Modern Philology. 100 (1): 101–104. doi:10.1086/493161. ISSN 0026-8232.
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