Dr. Kendall Tarte Associate Professor of French Education Ph.D., French, University of Virginia M.A., French Literature, University of Virginia B.A., English, University of Virginia Research Interests Sixteenth-Century French Women Writers Urban Life in Renaissance France Sixteenth-Century Humanist Salons Strategies for Teaching French Literature and Culture Courses Taught French 111-154: Elementary and Intermediate French French 213 and 214 (Honors): Introduction to Literature French 216: Studies in French Literature and Culture: Muslim Youth in France French 220: Conversation French 370: Seminar in French Studies: Perspectives on Paris First Year Seminar: France in the Twenty-First Century

Office: Greene 536 Phone: (336) 758-5649 tartekb@wfu.edu www.wfu.edu/~tartekb

Departmental Activities Coordinator of the Lower-Division Courses in French Coordinator of French Co-curricular Activities Honors and Awards Academic and Community Engagement (ACE) Fellowship for Service-Learning, 2003-04 Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Research Leave, 2002-03 William C. Archie Fund for Faculty Excellence, multiple awards Representative Publications Writing Places: Sixteenth-Century City Culture and the Des Roches Salon, University of Delaware Press, 2007 “Seductive Topographies: The Languages of Landscape in La Puce de Madame des-Roches,” Romanic Review, May 2004 “Early Modern Literary Communities: Madeleine Des Roches’s City of Women,” Sixteenth Century Journal, Fall 2004 “Prefatory Strategies in La Puce de Madame des-Roches: From the Salon to the Page,” Renaissance et Réforme/Renaissance and Reformation, special issue on Women’s Literary Salons in Renaissance Europe, 2004