Carrie Klaus

Professor of Modern Languages (French) and Dean of the Faculty

A graduate of DePauw, Carrie F. Klaus earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in French from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Her areas of interest include French-language women writers of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries and exchanges between and among eighteenth-century French and English women writers.  She is the translator of the first full-length English-language version of Jeanne de Jussie's Short Chronicle (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), a narrative of the Protestant Reformation of Geneva, and has published articles on Jussie, on Germaine de Staël, and on Brussels-born writer and translator Cornélie Wouters.  Prof. Klaus teaches all levels of French at DePauw.