Elizabeth Kinne

Dr. Elizabeth Kinne is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the American University of Paris, holding dual PhDs from Harvard University and Sorbonne Université. Her research specializes in Renaissance literature and medical humanities.

Key research areas include:

• Representations of plague in early modern literature
• Medical discourse in 16th-century texts
• Gender and political dynamics in conduct literature
• French-English translation studies
• Intertextuality in Renaissance writing

Her monograph 'La Peste à la Renaissance' (2020) received the Prix Monseigneur Marcel from the Académie Française. Current work examines corporeal metaphors in Rabelais and plague narrative conventions in Renaissance translations of classical texts. She teaches courses on Shakespeare, medieval and Renaissance literature, and writing-intensive seminars.