Career
Paranque started off teaching French at Queen Mary University of London [3] before moving to King's College London (KCL) as an assistant. In 2015, she made her television debut in an installment of the France 2 documentary Secrets d'Histoire about Elizabeth I. [4]
After completing her PhD in 2016, Paranque was promoted seminar leader of the Early Modern Britain course and guest lecturer at KCL. She also secured a position the University of Winchester as an associate lecturer of Introduction to Early Modern Europe. During this time, she co-edited her first essay collection with Nate Probasco and Claire Jowitt titled Colonisation, Piracy & Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens, [5] published in 2017 via Palgrave Macmillan.
In autumn 2017, Paranque joined the New College of the Humanities (NCH) as a Visiting Lecturer in Early Modern History in autumn 2017 and became an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. [1] She has since become Associate Lecturer at the former (which is now part of Northeastern University London). Paranque next co-edited the 2018 volume Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Political Agency, Myth-Making, and Patronage with Valerie Schutte. [6]
Via Springer Nature and Palgrave Macmillan, [7] [8] Paranque published her PhD thesis as an academic monograph book titled Elizabeth I of England Through Valois Eyes: Power, Representation and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen, 1558-1588 in 2018. [9] [10]
Paranque featured in the 2021 BBC Two docuseries The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family, which also aired on PBS in the United States. [11]
Announced in 2020, [12] Ebury Press pre-empted the rights to publish Paranque's second book Blood, Fire and Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici in 2022. [13] Blood, Fire and Gold was named The Times Book of the Week [14] and appeared on The Smithsonian's list of the 10 best history books of 2022. [15]
In 2023, Paranque featured in and contributed to the first episode of the Channel 4 docuseries The Queens Who Changed the World. [16]
Paranque reunited with Ebury Press for the publication of her third book Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn. [17] The book examines Anne Boleyn's life over 20 years, with additional focus on her seven years spent as a young lady-in-waiting in France, and how she was viewed by French and Spanish sources. [18] Paranque featured in the Gloucester History Festival that year. [19]
As of 2024, Paranque was working with a team of computer scientists and historians to translate 50 of Mary Queen of Scots' letters, written in a medieval French cipher. [20] [21]
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