EMILY E. THOMPSON is a professor of French and international studies in the Department of Global Languages, Cultures and Societies at Webster University in Webster Groves, Missouri. Her work focuses on the evolution of the novella in the sixteenth century, in particular on the role editorial genres played in these changes. She has published on the works of Marguerite de Navarre and Bonaventure Des Périers and contributed an article on Pierre Boaistuau’s edition of Histoires des Amans fortunez to a forthcoming collection with Classiques Garnier (Pierre Boaistuau ou le génie des forms). She co-translated and co-edited Jeanne d’Albret’s Ample declaration with Kathleen Llewellyn and
Colette Winn. She and Colette Winn organized the Isidore Silver Memorial Colloquium on Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France: Medicine, Literature, and the Arts at Washington University in April 2016 where The Negotiation of Shifting Forms first took shape.