Jennifer Waldron

Assistant Professor of English, Director of the Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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Jennifer Waldron, Director of the Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, specializes in the fields of Renaissance Drama and post-Reformation religious controversy in England. Her interests include ritual and performance theory, religious polemic, word/image problems, and histories of gender and the body. She received her BA in Comparative Literature (French, Spanish, and English) from Oberlin College, her MA in English Literature from New York University, and her PhD from Princeton University.

Her current book project, Lively Images: Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Secular Theater in Post-Reformation England, examines Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in light of post-Reformation debates over the sacramental and symbolic powers of the human body.

Publications

"Reading the Body," forthcoming in Blackwell's A Companion to Early Modern Literature and Culture, ed. Michael
Hattaway.
Review of Erica Longfellow, Women and Religion in Early Modern England, in The Journal of Religion 86: 3 (2006): 447 - 79.
“Beyond Words and Deeds: Montaigne’s Soldierly Style,”
Philological Quarterly 82:1 (2003).
Review of Richard McCoy, Alterations of State: Sacred Kingship in the English Reformation, in the Journal of Religion and Society 5 (2003).
“Gaping upon Plays: Shakespeare, Gosson, and the Reformation of Vision,” Critical Matrix 12 (2001).

Teaching

Graduate Courses
- Gender and the Body on the Early Modern Stage
- Word and Image
Undergraduate Courses
- Introduction to Critical Reading
- Junior Seminar: Word and Image
- The Renaissance in England
- Tragedy
- Early Modern Literatures in English
- Introduction to Shakespeare

University Service

Director, Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Member, Graduate Procedures Committee
Member, Graduate Placement and Professional Development Committee
Member, Literature Curriculum Committee