Hugh Jenkins

Professor (Ph.D. Cornell)
Seventeenth-Century British Literature


Contact Information:
Office: Humanities 214B
Phone: 518.366.7112
E-mail: jenkinsh@union.edu

 

TEACHING AND INTERESTS

Specialties and interests: Seventeenth- Century literature, especially Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton; political radicalism, then and now; eighteenth-century novel; early American literature; rhetoric; mandolins; "The Simpsons"; and the Arsenal Football Club.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Current Project: "Toward Latinitas: Revising the Defensio" (forthcoming article).

Recent publications include: "'Quid nomine populi intelligi velimus': Defining the People in Milton's 'Second Defense'" in Milton Studies 36, 2006.