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Diane Kelley’s expertise is in early modern 17th- and 18th- century French culture and literature. Her dissertation analyzed fiction by women writers at the turn of the 18th century, including Mme de Lafayette, Catherine Bernard, and Mme de Tencin. She has also published on Mme de Graffigny, Voltaire, and Diderot in journals such as Dalhousie French Studies, New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Her most recent article studies how early modern French interior design and museum culture informs the ending of Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne. Her next project will analyze the fictional presentation of characters of African descent living in France in the eighteenth century. Other interests include the book trade of the 18th century, correspondences of the time, material culture and creative approaches to teaching language, history, and literature, including Reacting to the Past pedagogy.