Forsyth, Jennifer C.

Ph.D. University of Nevada, Reno
M.A. Humboldt State University
B.A. Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon

CMP 100, Effective Composition
ENG/WRI 100, Reading and Writing in the Professions
ENG 331, Shakespeare’s Early Plays
ENG 332, Shakespeare’s Later Plays

Shakespeare, Fletcher, and other early modern dramatists
The intersection of the physical and the emotional in early modern writing
Editorial theory and practice
Stylometric approaches to authorship attribution, especially in cases of collaboration
Conditions of early modern dramatic authorship and textual production.

“Kisses and Contagion in Troilus and Cressida,” in Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Textual Editor, Henry 6, Part 1, Norton 3rd edition, 2015.

“Cutting Words and Healing Wounds: Friendship and Violence in Early Modern Drama,” in Violent Masculinities. Palgrave, 2013.

Her current research involves analyzing the way people understood the senses in the Renaissance, particularly through representations of the kiss and, separately, of the lily in early modern drama, poetry, and culture.