Title: Graduate Student

Research Group: Early Modern
Department: English

Office: 467 Buttrick
Phone: na
Email: jennifer.l.clement@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• PhD, Vanderbilt University, 2007
• MA, University of New Hampshire, 2002
• BA, University of New Hampshire, 1992

Research Area

• Religion and women's devotional writing
• Gender and queer theory
• Elizabeth I
• Shakespeare

Current Research

• Folger Shakespeare Library - Martin Luther seminar (Fall 2006)

Current Courses

• English 210 - Representative Shakespeare

Professional Societies

• Shakespeare Association of America
• Renaissance Society of America
• Modern Language Association

Professional Honors

• Vanderbilt College of Arts & Science Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
• Vanderbilt Graduate Student Fellowship
• Martha Rivers Ingram Graduate Fellowship
• Vanderbilt University Dissertation Enhancement Grant
• Vanderbilt University Summer Research Grant

Publications

• "Elizabeth I and the Politics of Gender: Empire and Masculinity in John Banks's The Unhappy Favorite." Restoration, 31.1 Spring 2007.
• "Silencing the Shrew: 10 Things I Hate About You, Feminism, and the Romance Genre." Borrowers and Lenders. To be published in Winter 2007.

Biography

Jennifer was born in Seoul, South Korea, but was soon taken to the United States, where she grew up on a sheep farm in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. She has subsequently lived in Durham NH, London, Los Angeles, Dover, NH, and now Nashville, TN.