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Jennifer Vaught

Professor of English

Ph.D., Indiana University, 1997

Office: Griffin 257
Phone: 337-482-5481
E-mail: jvaught@louisiana.edu

Pronouns: she/her

Teaching and Research Areas

Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Renaissance literature; Spenser and Shakespeare

Noteworthy

Jennifer C. Vaught is author of

  • Spenser’s Afterlife from Shakespeare to Milton: ‘The Faerie Queene’ 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’s Faerie Queene, Sidney’s New Arcadia, Shakespeare’s Richard III, Richard II, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and The Winter’s Tale, and the reception of his plays in eighteenth-century England and contemporary American culture.

Selected essays by her include

  •  “The Faerie Queene as Satirical Intertext for The Alchemist” in Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 30 (2021): 48-66.30 (2021): 48-66
  •  “Hamlet, Parody, Seinfeld, and American Comedy” in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 26.1 (2019): 61-76
  •  “Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and the New Orleans Twelfth Night Revelers” in Twelfth Night: New Critical Essays, ed. James Schiffer (Routledge, 2011), 244-57
  •  “Spenser’s Dialogic Voice in Book I of The Faerie Queene” in Studies in English Literature 41.1 (2001): 71-89