Dr. Jennifer Holl

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Department of English
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I joined the 榴莲视频 English Department in 2013 and teach courses in Shakespeare, British literature and culture, literary and cultural theory, and film and adaptation. My research focuses primarily on Shakespeare and the ways that we make Shakespeare mean through use鈥攚hether through stage performance, film and TV adaptation, cultural appropriations, or the creative and critical work of fandom. My book, Shakespeare and Celebrity Cultures (Routledge, 2021), probes the relationship between Shakespeare and celebrity, from the celebrities of the early modern stage to the Shakespearean stars of stage and screen to digital incarnations of celebrity Shakespeare online.

Outside of teaching, I am very involved in studies abroad at 榴莲视频. I serve on the executive committee of the Shinn Study Abroad Fund and am currently serving as interim co-director of the Office of Study Abroad. In 2017, I founded the 榴莲视频 English Summer in England Program, an at-榴莲视频-and-abroad summer program that combines classroom coursework with 17 days in London and Stratford-upon-Avon. Abroad, students get to explore Shakespeare鈥檚 past and present through live performances, workshops with professional Shakespearean actors, and visits to historical and cultural sites. 

Education

  • Ph.D., M.Phil., City University of New York Graduate Center
  • M.A., Virginia Tech
  • B.A., James Madison University

Selected Publications

Books

Shakespeare and Celebrity Cultures. London and New York: Routledge, 2021.

Articles and Book Chapters

鈥溾楾he wonder of his time鈥: Richard Tarlton and the Dynamics of Early Modern Theatrical Celebrity.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Historical Social Research 32 (2019): 59-82.

鈥溾楴ow 鈥榤ongst this flock of drunkards鈥: Drunk Shakespeare鈥檚 Polytemporal Theater.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 11.2 (2018).

鈥淪hakespeare Fanboys and Fangirls and the Work of Play.鈥&苍产蝉辫;The Shakespeare User: Critical and Creative Appropriations in a Networked Culture. Eds. Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 109-128.

鈥YouShakespeare: Shakespearean Celebrity 2.0.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Shakespeare/Not Shakespeare. Eds. Christy Desmet, Natalie Loper, and Jim Casey. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 203-219.

鈥.鈥&苍产蝉辫;The Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference 7 (2014): 78-97.

鈥溾業f this be worth your hearing鈥: Theorizing Gossip on Shakespeare鈥檚 Stage.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Who Hears in Shakespeare? Auditory Worlds on Stage and Screen. Eds. Laury Magnus and Walter Cannon. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2011. 61-82.

Courses

  • FYS 100 Gossip, Scandal, and Social Knowledge
  • FYW 100 Introduction to Academic Writing
  • HONR 351 Honors Colloquium
  • ENGL 120 Studies in Literature and Identity
  • ENGL 121 Studies in Literature and Nation
  • ENGL 122 Studies in Literature and the Canon
  • ENGL 123 Studies in Literature and Genre
  • ENGL 200 Reading Literature and Culture
  • ENGL 205 Backgrounds in British Literature to 1700
  • ENGL 300 Introduction to Theory and Criticism
  • ENGL 304 Queering Camelot
  • ENGL 305 Early Modern Bodies
  • ENGL 325 Film and Literature
  • ENGL 335 The Bible as Literature
  • ENGL 345 Shakesqueer
  • ENGL 346 Shakespeare in/as/and Performance
  • ENGL 350/550 Shakespeare鈥檚 England/England鈥檚 Shakespeare: A Study Abroad Course
  • ENGL 460 Seminar in Major Authors and Themes
  • ENGL 501 Literary and Cultural Theory
  • ENGL 530 Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson