Assistant Professor
jrust2@slu.edu

Jennifer Rust has received M.A. degrees in English Literature from University of Illinois at Chicago and Comparative Literature from University of California, Irvine. She completed her Ph.D. in Early Modern English Literature at UC Irvine in 2007.

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English, University of California, Irvine (June 2007)
M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine (2002)
M.A. in English Literature, University of Illinois at Chicago (1999)
B.A. in English, Northwestern University (1994)

TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Early modern English literature, Shakespeare, Spenser, Renaissance prose fiction, Catholic writing in the English Reformation, political theology, religious studies, critical theory, gender and sovereignty.

PUBLICATIONS

Articles

"Wittenberg and Melancholic Allegory: The Reformation and Its Discontents in Hamlet." Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England. Ed. Dennis Miller and David Beauregard. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. 260-286.

"'Image of Idolatryes': Iconotropy and the Theo-Political Body in the Faerie Queene." Religion and Literature. Winter 2006.

Translation (Under Review)

Carl Schmitt, "Hamlet as Heir to the Throne" (from Hamlet oder Hekuba: Der Einbruch der Zeit in das Spiel, 1956). 2002. Currently under revision for publication. See excerpts from this project at ThinkingwithShakespeare.org.

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