English Department
mandolins; “The Simpsons”; and the Arsenal Football Club
Hugh Jenkins
Job Title
Professor of English
Term Abroad (Fall 2025)
Research interests
Seventeenth- Century literature, especially Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton; political radicalism, then and now; eighteenth-century novel; early American literature; rhetoric
Publications
Teaching the Beatles. co-authored and co-edited essay collection, Routledge, 2018; Paperback 2020, ISBN 9780367590321.
“‘Quid nomine populi intelligi velimus’: Defining the People in Milton’s ‘Second Defense'” Milton Studies 46 (2007): 191-209.
Feigned Commonwealths : The Country-House Poem and the Fashioning of the Ideal Community. Duquesne University Press, 1998.
Additional media
Distinctions
Winner of the Stillman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2004
Personal Interests
Academic credentials
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Cornell University
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