Dr. Stacey E. Battis specializes in early modern France. Her research interests include women's writing and the history of rhetoric, particularly the ways in which early modern women writers deploy rhetorical and discursive strategies to make their voices heard. She is currently pursuing a project on 16th-century author Hélisenne de Crenne and her exploration of the sacrament of confession as an embodied practice. She pursues her interests in Francophone literature, film, medical history, gender studies, genre studies, and science fiction through her research and teaching. Her particular pedagogical interests are twofold: teaching writing as a form of empowerment (in English and in French) and transforming seemingly frivolous topics into subjects of serious intellectual inquiry.
