Cathy Yandell

Cathy Yandell is a professor at Carleton College, teaching courses in French and Francophone literature and culture, contemporary cultural and political issues in France, and the French language. Having published articles on early modern writers, she has also authored, edited, and co-edited several books including Carpe Corpus: Time and Gender in Early Modern France, Vieillir à la Renaissance, and Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France. In 2019, by some quirk of fate, she was knighted by the French government into the Order of Academic Palms. When not buried in books, she loves dance, yoga, and flying trapeze. The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everday World is her first book for a general audience.