Sophie Raynard-Leroy

• Seventeenth-Century French Women’s Literature: Specializing in female authors (conteuses) and their literary contributions, networks, and cultural interactions with male peers.
• The French Literary Fairy Tale (Contes de fées): Specifically the 1690s vogue, paratexts (prefaces and frameworks), and biographies of classic fairy-tale writers.
• "Minor" Literary Genres: Critical examination of marginalized or lesser-studied French literary genres of the Early Modern period.
• Gender and Identity in Literature: Exploring depictions of gender fluidity, female empowerment, and women’s agency from the Early Modern period to postmodernity.
• Modern and Contemporary Fairy-Tale Adaptations: Extending critical fairy-tale poetics to modern media, including deconstructive analyses of Disney adaptations and modern children’s culture.

UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS

• Damsels in Charge: Empowering Fairy Tales from Seventeenth-Century France. Co-authored with Charlotte Trinquet du Lys (UCF-Orlando). Contract with Wayne State University Press dated June 2024. 

MONOGRAPH

• La Seconde Préciosité. Floraison des conteuses de 1690 à 1756. Biblio 17, 130. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002. 512p. 

EDITED VOLUMES

• Gender Fluidity in Early-Modern to Post-Modern Children’s Literature and Culture, co-edited by Sophie Raynard-Leroy and Charlotte Trinquet du Lys. Open Cultural Studies 5:1 (2021). 
• The Teller’s Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy-Tale Writers (trans. and ed. Sophie Raynard): a collection of biographical articles on the most famous European storytellers from the Renaissance to the 19th century (Italy, France, Germany, and Scandinavia). SUNY Press: Albany, 2012. Recipient of the ‘2012 Edited Book Honor Title Award’ by the Children’s Literature Association (ChLA). 
• Fairy Tales Framed: a co-edited volume on para-texts/meta-texts of the fairy tales consisting of English translations of French articles (in most cases translated for the first time) and extensive annotations. SUNY Press: Albany, 2012. 
• Approches diverses du conte de fées littéraire (guest editor: Sophie Raynard), a special issue (double) on the fairy tale, consisting of a collection of articles from most representative fairy-tale scholars to date. The Romanic Review 99:3-4 (May-November 2008). 

BOOK CHAPTERS

• “The Count of Amboise (1689) by Catherine Bernard.” The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Ed. April London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 
• “The Female Prince: or, Frederick of Sicily (1682) by Catherine Bernard.” The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Ed. April London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 
• “Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy” for the Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (LC14-18) series. Layman Poupard Publishing, Fall 2011. 

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

• “Gender Fluidity: From Euphemism to Pride. An Editorial with Comprehensive Bibliography on Gender Fluidity in Children’s Literature and Fairy Tales,” co-authored by Sophie Raynard-Leroy and Charlotte Trinquet du Lys. Gender Fluidity in Early-Modern to Post-Modern Children’s Literature and Culture, co-edited by Sophie Raynard-Leroy and Charlotte Trinquet du Lys. Open Cultural Studies vol. 5, no. 1, 2021. 
• “Le travestissement comme moyen d’expression féminine dans le roman de Mlle Bernard : Fédéric de Sicile (1680).” Ventriloquie: Quand on fait parler les femmes (XVe-XVIIIe siècles), eds. Diane Desrosiers et Roxanne Roy. “Les collections de la République des Lettres.” Paris: Hermann, 2019, pp. 145-164. 
• “Ancients vs. Moderns: The Women’s Riposte.” Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2019, pp. 116–139. 
• “The Modernist Political Agenda of the First Contes de Fées: Mademoiselle Lhéritier, Madame d’Aulnoy, and Madame de Murat’s Paratexts.” The Fairy-Tale Vanguard: The Literary Self-Consciousness of a Marvelous Genre. Eds. Stijn Praet and Anna Kérchy. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, 2019. 
• “Enseigner Disney à l’université: pourquoi a-t-il sa place dans un cours sur le conte de fées?” Creation, Re-creation, and Entertainment: Early Modernity and Postmodernity: Selected Essays from the 46th Annual Conference of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Rollins College & The University of Central Florida, June 1-3, 2016. Eds. Charlotte Trinquet du Lys and Benjamin Balak. Gunter Narr Verlag: 2019. 
• “Les fêtes de Cour: lieux de culte royal et de culture.” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XLIV, vol. 86, 2017, pp. 85-95. 
• “Sexuality and the Women Fairy-Tale Writers of the 1690s,” in Marvelous Transformations : An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Broadview Press: 2012. 
• “De la promenade au conte de fées ou la ‘petite’ littérature de l’enchantement,” in De la conversation au conservatoire. Scénographies des genres mineurs (1680-1780), eds. Aurélie Zygel-Basso and Kim Gladu, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. “Symposiums de la République des Lettres,” 2012. 
• “La magie de Saint-Cloud par Madame d’Aulnoy,” in Relief, vol. 4, no. 2, 2010. 10. “Le défi des conteuses: faire de la femme scandaleuse une héroïne de fiction,” in Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature XXXVII, vol. 72, 2010. 
• “Madame d’Aulnoy’s Re-Enactment of Storytelling Scenes,” in The Conte: Oral and Written Dynamics, eds. Janice Carruthers and Maeve McCusker. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010. 
• “Un exemple de préciosité libertine : le cas particulier de la conteuse Mlle de La Force,” in Libertinism and Literature in Seventeenth-Century France, ed. Richard Hodgson. Biblio 17 # 181. Gunter Narr: Tübingen, 2009. 
• “Perrault et les conteuses précieuses de la génération 1690 : dialogue intertextuel ou querelle masquée ?” in special issue: Approaches to the Literary Fairy Tales, ed. Sophie Raynard. The Romanic Review, vol. 99, no. 3-4, 2008. 
• “Beau langage vaut mieux que riche apanage ou la prose éloquente des conteuses précieuses : l’exemple de Mlle L’Héritier.” Le Conte en ses paroles. La figuration de l’oralité dans le conte merveilleux du Classicisme aux Lumières, eds. Anne Defrance and Jean-François Perrin. Paris: Desjonquères, 2007, pp. 58-67. 
• “New Poetics versus Old Print: Fairy Tales, Animal Fables, and the Gaulois Past.” Fairy Tales, Printed Texts, and Oral Tellings: The Other History, ed. Ruth Bottigheimer. Special Issue of Marvels and Tales, vol. 21, no. 1, 2007, pp. 93-106. 

• CCS 311 Gender and Genre in Film: The Problem With Disney, a course designed to examine the stereotypes in Disney culture by contrasting its fairy-tale films with original folklore, which offers far more complex depictions of gender and society. 
• HUF 211 French Cinema: Contemporary French Films (1995–2021), a course designed to engage students with key cultural and societal issues experienced by French youth and depicted in national cinema—such as racial intolerance and youth alienation.