Jennifer Waldron
Assistant Professor of English
412-624-3246
jwaldron@pitt.edu
CL 617-G
Jennifer Waldron 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, Eloquence of the Body: Aesthetics, Theology, and English Renaissance Drama, examines Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in light of post-Reformation debates over the sacramental and symbolic powers of the human body.
Publications
- “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
- Undergraduate Courses
- Early Modern Literatures in English
- Introduction to Shakespeare
University Service
- Member, Graduate Placement and Professional Development Committee
- Member, Literature Curriculum Committee