Mélinda Caron

Mélinda Caron is a professor of French language and literature at the Université TÉLUQ (Université du Québec), and previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fordham University, and Concordia University. She is the author of a monograph on Louise d’Épinay entitled Écriture et vie de société: Les Correspondances littéraires de Louise d’Épinay (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2017), and she prepared the critical edition of the year 1764 of Friedrich Melchior Grimm’s Correspondance littéraire (Centre international d’étude du XVIIIe siècle, Ferney-Voltaire, 2018). Her research interests include women’s history, eighteenth-century French literature, literary periodicals of the ancien régime, women’s representation, social imagination, and sociability.