Jennifer Linhart Wood

Jennifer Linhart Wood is a member of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and is on the editorial team for Shakespeare Quarterly at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Her first book, Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel: Uncanny Vibrations in the English Archive, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in their “New Transculturalisms” series in spring 2019. The book examines the significance of sound in early modern cross-cultural encounters both abroad and on the Renaissance stage. It won the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society’s 2021 Bevington Award for Best New Book. Each chapter features QR codes that give readers access to sound recordings of the instruments discussed. The book appeals to students and scholars of Renaissance drama, travel literature, British literature, Shakespeare, sound and sensory studies, historical phenomenology, new materialisms, and music history. Her work has been featured in various publications, including Gender and Song in Early Modern England, the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Shakespeare Studies. 

Courses Taught 

ENGH 302-H51: Adv Composition (Humanities) (LINK) 

Spring: Online 

ENGH 302-H52: Adv Composition (Humanities) (LINK) 

Spring: Online 

ENGH 323-001: Supernatural Shakespeare (LINK) 

Spring: 01:30 PM to 02:45 PM TR 

HNRS 122-001: Metatheatrical Shakespeare (LINK) 

Spring: 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR 

Selected Works 

Barclay, B., & Lindley, D. (Eds.). (2017). Shakespeare, Music and Performance. Cambridge University Press. 

Wood, J. L. (2019a). An organ’s metamorphosis: Thomas Dallam’s sonic transformations in the ottoman empire. In Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel (pp. 167–203). Springer International Publishing. 

Wood, J. L. (2019b). “something rich and strange”: Global listening and the tempest. In Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel (pp. 275–318). Springer International Publishing. 

Wood, J. L. (2019c). Sounding otherness in early modern drama and travel: Uncanny vibrations in the English archive. Springer International Publishing. 

Education

PhD, English Literature; Renaissance; Shakespeare, The George Washington University, 2013 

MA, English Literature, University of Miami, 2007