Professor Kinne has been living, studying, and teaching in France for over twelve years, her undergraduate and graduate work including many transatlantic journeys. Having focused on romance languages as an undergraduate, she specialized in French and English medieval literature in graduate school and received a dual PhD in French and Women’s Studies from The Pennsylvania State University in Spring 2013. Her dissertation, “Persuading the Polity: Authority, Marriage, and Politics in Late-Medieval France” studies the interrelatedness of gender and politics in conduct literature for women during the Hundred Years’ War. She has been at AUP since 2010 where her writing and literature courses often discuss gender, sexuality, and the construction of knowledge. She has taught French language and literature in the United States and English language and literature at several French institutions.
Her medieval research interests include the Old French fabliaux, Arthurian literature, conduct literature and women’s writing. As a gender scholar, she explores questions concerning women in the military. She also provides translating, interpreting, research, and consulting services for French government agencies.