Rate My Professor Charlotte Trinquet du Lys

Charlotte Trinquet du Lys is Professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Central Florida, where she has been on the faculty since 2005, initially as Visiting Instructor (2005-2006), then Assistant Professor (2007-2013), Associate Professor (2013-present), and full Professor. She also holds affiliate appointments in Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Women and Gender Studies since 2018. She directed the French Program from 2013 to 2020 and serves as editor of The Pegasus Review, UCF's Undergraduate Research Journal. Her academic background includes a Ph.D. in Romance Languages (major: French; secondary languages: Spanish, Italian; minors: Comparative Literature, Folklore) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001, with dissertation "La petite histoire des contes de fées littéraires en France (1690-1705)". She earned an M.A. in French from UNC Chapel Hill in 1996 and a Masters in Communications from Ecole Française des Attachés de Presse, Paris, in 1986.

Trinquet du Lys specializes in women's literature of the Early Modern French era, relationships between fairy tales and folklore, adaptations and dissemination of European fairy tales, and French popular culture. Her key publications encompass the monograph Le conte de fées français (1690-1700): Traditions italiennes et origines aristocratiques (Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2012); co-edited collections including Gender Fluidity in Early-Modern to Post-Modern Children’s Literature and Culture (De Gruyter, 2021, with Sophie Raynard-Leroy), Creation, Re-creation, and Entertainment: Early Modernity and Postmodernity (Narr Verlag, 2019, with Benjamin Balak), and Disappearances and Endings (Papers in French Seventeenth-Century Literature, vol. 42, no. 83, 2015); peer-reviewed chapters such as “Fairy Tale Adaptation” in A Cultural History of the Fairy Tale: The Long Eighteenth Century (Bloomsbury, 2021); and articles like “Women Soldiers’ Tales during Louis XIV’s War Conflicts” (Marvels & Tales, 2019) and “Gender Fluidity: From Euphemism to Pride” (Open Cultural Studies, 2021). Awards include Scroll and Quill Society Inductee (UCF, 2020), Research Incentive Award (UCF, 2019), Teaching Incentive Program Award (UCF, 2018), and College of Arts and Humanities Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (UCF, 2016). Her contributions advance understanding of gender, economics, and cultural transmission in early modern fairy tale scholarship.