Deborah Steinberger is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Delaware. She currently serves as Associate Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and directs the program in Comparative Literature. Her research areas include seventeenth-century theater and writing by early modern women. She has published articles on these subjects, as well as critical editions of epistolary and dramatic works by the seventeenth-century writer and painter Françoise Pascal. Her current research focus is early modern French journalism, and she has published several articles and is currently writing a book on the early French newspaper Le Mercure Galant. She recently collaborated with colleagues at Yale University and the Université de Fribourg (Switzerland) on a digital humanities project onLes Nouvelles Nouvelles, a 1663 novella collection by the editor of the Mercure Galant, Donneau de Visé.