Jennifer Vaught is author of
Masculinity
and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature (Ashgate, 2008)
and editor of a collection of essays on
Grief and Gender:
700-1700 (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2003). She has also published articles on Spenser’s
Faerie
Queene; Sidney’s
New Arcadia, Shakespeare’s
Richard
II,
Hamlet,
and
The Winter’s Tale; and the reception of his plays in
eighteenth century England and contemporary, American culture.
Select articles
by her include “Spenser’s Dialogic Voice in Book I of
The
Faerie Queene” in
Studies in English Literature (2001); “Shakespeare
in a Sitcom?”: Intertextual Allusions to
Hamlet in Seinfeld’s
Parody “Junk Mail” in
Interdisciplinary Humanities (2003); “Masculinity
and Affect in Shakespeare’s
Winter’s Tale: Men of
Feeling in the Renaissance through the Enlightenment” in 1650-1850:
Ideas,
Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (2004); and “Men
Who Weep and Wail: Masculinity and Emotion in Sidney’s
New Arcadia” in
Literature Compass (2005). Her essay “Shakespeare’s
Twelfth
Night and the New Orleans Twelfth Night Revelers” is forthcoming
in
Twelfth Night: New Critical Essays, ed. James Schiffer (Routledge,
2009). She is currently writing a book entitled
Carnival and
Literature in Early Modern England and editing and introducing a collection
of essays on
Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and
Early Modern England (under contract with Ashgate).
