Jennifer Vaught
Education
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1997
Student Research/Collaboration
- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Renaissance literature
- Spenser and Shakespeare
Publications
Jennifer C. Vaught is author of:
- Spenser鈥檚 Afterlife from Shakespeare to Milton: 鈥楾he Faerie Queene鈥 as Intertextual Environment (Routledge, 2025)
Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser (De Gruyter, 2019)
Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2012)
Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature (Routledge, 2008)
She is co-editor of:
- Textual Respect and Situated Readings of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne: Essays in Honor of Judith H. Anderson (forthcoming De Gruyter, 2026)
Shakespeare and Donne: Generic Hybrids and The Cultural Imaginary (Fordham University Press, 2013)
She is editor of:
- Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England (Routledge, 2010)
Grief and Gender: 700-1700 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
She has published essays on Spenser鈥檚 Faerie Queene, Sidney鈥檚 New Arcadia, Shakespeare鈥檚 Richard III, Richard II, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and The Winter鈥檚 Tale, and the reception of his plays in eighteenth-century England and contemporary American culture.
Selected essays by her include:
- 鈥淭he Faerie Queene as Satirical Intertext for The Alchemist鈥 in Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 30 (2021): 48-66.30 (2021): 48-66
- 鈥淗amlet, Parody, Seinfeld, and American Comedy鈥 in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 26.1 (2019): 61-76
- 鈥淪hakespeare鈥檚 Twelfth Night and the New Orleans Twelfth Night Revelers鈥 in Twelfth Night: New Critical Essays, ed. James Schiffer (Routledge, 2011), 244-57
- 鈥淪penser鈥檚 Dialogic Voice in Book I of The Faerie Queene鈥 in Studies in English Literature 41.1 (2001): 71-89