Kelly Digby Peebles, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of French
Contact
Department of Languages
Office: 710 Strode
Email: kpeeble@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia (2010); M.A., University of South Carolina (2001); B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman's College (1999)
Kelly Digby Peebles is an Associate Professor of French in the Languages Department, specializing in early modern French literature and culture. Her research interests include royal studies, textual editing, book history, women's leadership in early church reform, and the Huguenot diaspora in South Carolina. Her recent publications have focused on Renée de France, a sixteenth-century princess, patron of the arts, and protector of religious refugees, including two books co-authored and co-edited with Gabriella Scarlatta (U of Michigan-Dearborn): Surviving Voices: Honoring Renée de France's Legacy (forthcoming) and Representing the Life and Legacy of Renée de France: from Fille de France to Dowager Duchess (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). In her new book project, Grieving Communities in Sixteenth-Century France , Dr. Peebles is studying how early modern communities processed grief through publicly performed ceremonies and court poetry, as well as private correspondence. She currently serves as Layout Editor for the Royal Studies Journal.
Selected Professional Works
Books (Published)
Peebles, Kelly D. and Gabriella Scarlatta (Eds.) Representing the Life and Legacy of Renée de France: From Fille de France to Dowager Duchess. 2021. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Jeanne Flore. Tales and Trials of Love: a bilingual edition and study. Edited and translated by Kelly Digby Peebles. Poetry translated by Marta Rijn Finch. (Toronto: CRRS/Iter, 2014).
Books (In Production or Under Contract)
Peebles, Kelly Digby, and Gabriella Scarlatta. Surviving Voices: Honoring Renée de France's Legacy. (in preparation for The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
Peebles, Kelly Digby. “Renée of France: Valiant Protector of Religious Dissidents.” Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe: Profiles, Texts, and Contexts. Ed. Kirsi Stjerna. Minneapolis: 1517 Media/Fortress Press, 2022. 163-175.
Peebles, Kelly Digby. "Renée de France as Dowager Duchess and Epistolary Diplomat." Representing the Life and Legacy of Renée de France. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2021. 333-358.
Peebles, Kelly Digby, and Gabriella Scarlatta. "Introduction: Renée de France’s Life and Legacy." Representing the Life and Legacy of Renée de France. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2021. 1-19.
Peebles, Kelly D. “Reincarnating the Forgotten Francis II: from Puerile Pubescent to Heroic Heartthrob.” Remembering Queens and Kings in Early Modern England and France: Reputation, Reinterpretation, Reincarnation, ed. Estelle Paranque. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 219-239. ISBN: 978-3-030-22343-4
“Embodied Devotion: the Dynastic and Religious Loyalty of Renée de France (1510-1575).” Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty, ed. Caroline Dunn and Elizabeth Carney. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 123-37. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75877-0_9
“Renée de France's and Clément Marot's Voyages: Political Exile to Spiritual Liberation.” In special issue “Les Femmes et le voyage / Women and Traveling,” ed. Catherine Montfort and Christine Probes. Women in French Studies Special Issue 7 (2018): 33-60. DOI: 10.1353/wfs.2018.0002
“The Head, the Heart, and Hysteria in Jeanne Flore's Tales and Trials of Love (c. 1542).” In special issue “Imagining Contexts for Mental Illness,” ed. Woods Nash. Journal of Medical Humanities 39.1 (2018): 73-91. DOI: 10.1007/s10912-017-9482-0
Peebles, K. “Renée de France.” In The Literary Encyclopedia, “French Writing and Culture in the Renaissance” volume, ed. Bob Hudson.
"Anne de Parthenai," Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries (1803). Chawton House Library Series: Women’s Memoirs, ed. Gina Luria Walker, Memoirs of Women Writers Part II. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Vol. 10, 47-8, editorial notes, 555-56.
“Renata, Duchess of Ferrara," Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries (1803). Chawton House Library Series: Women’s Memoirs, ed. Gina Luria Walker, Memoirs of Women Writers Part II. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Vol. 10, 81-9, editorial notes, 573-77.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Accepted or Submitted)
Peebles, Kelly Digby. "Mourning Claude de France from Blois to St Denis." Re-viewing Claude de France. Ed. Cynthia J. Brown and Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier. (forthcoming, Brepols)
