English Department
Hugh Jenkins

Hugh Jenkins

Job Title
Professor of English
Karp Hall 207

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

Personal Interests

mandolins; “The Simpsons”; and the Arsenal Football Club

Academic credentials

B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Cornell University