Jennifer Brady was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1952 and became an American citizen in 1999. She won the Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1993. She has taught at Rhodes since 1984, after earning her B.A. from the University of Toronto and her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She has published extensively on John Dryden and Ben Jonson. Her teaching interests include seventeenth-century English literature, the novel of manners, authorial studies, and literary history.
Vita (PDF) August 2009
1980, Ph.D., English Literature, Princeton University
1977, M.A., Princeton University
1974, B.A., English Literature, University of Toronto
- English 221 - NOVEL OF MANNERS
- English 323 - RENAISSANCE DRAMA
- English 340 - RESTORATION DRAMA
- English 385 - JOHN FLETCHER: THE CASE FOR COLLABORATIVE WRITING
- English 385 - THE OTHER TITANS: JONSON AND FLETCHER
- English 385 - 17TH-CENTURY SATIRIC COMEDY, JONSON TO CONGREVE
Books
Jennifer Brady, Greg Clingham, David Kramer and Earl Miner, Literary Transmission and Authority: Dryden and Other Writers, edited by Earl Miner and Jennifer Brady. Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought, 17. (Cambridge University Press, 1993). Paperback reprint, 2005.
Ben Jonson′s 1616 Folio, edited by Jennifer Brady and W. H. Herendeen (University of Delaware Press, 1991).
Articles and Book Chapters
"Reading Dryden′s Prefatory Texts," forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden, eds. Jayne Lewis and Lisa Zunshine (New York, MLA).
“Dryden on Epicoene’s ‘Malicious Pleasure’: The Case of the Otters,” in Renaissance Papers 2005, eds. Christopher Cobb and M. Thomas Hester (Rochester, N. Y.:Camden House, 2005), pp. 103-120.
“Wish-Fulfillment Fantasies in Dryden′s Aureng-Zebe,” Philological Quarterly 83 (Winter, 2004 [published 2006]): 41-60.
"Anxious Comparisons in John Dryden′s Troilus and Cressida," in Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden, eds. Maximillian E. Novak and Jayne Lewis (University of Toronto Press, 2004), pp. 185-202.
“Ben Jonson, Revisited,” Renaissance Quarterly 55 (2002): 272-86.
"Dryden and Congreve′s Collaboration in The Double Dealer," in John Dryden: Tercentenary Essays, edited by Paul Hammond and David Hopkins (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 113-139.
"Progenitors and Other Sons in Ben Jonson′s Discoveries," in New Perspectives on Ben Jonson, edited by James Hirsh (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997), pp. 16-34.
“Collaborating with the Forebear: Dryden′s Reception of Ben Jonson,” MLQ: A Journal of Literary History 54 (September, 1993): 345-69.
"Dryden and Negotiations of Literary Succession and Precession," in Literary Transmission and Authority, eds. Miner and Brady, pp. 27-54.
"′Noe fault, but Life′: Jonson′s Folio as Monument and Barrier," in Ben Jonson′s 1616 Folio, eds. Brady and Herendeen, pp. 192-216.
“′Beware the Poet′: Authority and Judgement in Jonson′s Epigrammes,” Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900 23 (Winter, 1983): 95-112.
“Readers in Richardson′s Pamela,” English Studies in Canada 9 (June, 1983): 164-76.
“Points West, Then and Now: The Fiction of Joan Didion,” Contemporary Literature 20 (Autumn, 1979): 452-70. Reprinted in Joan Didion: Essays and Conversation, edited by Ellen G. Friedman (Ontario Review Press, 1984), pp. 43-59.
Brady′s reviews have appeared in the following journals: Renaissance Quarterly, Modern Philology, Comparative Drama, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, University of Toronto Quarterly, and The Dalhousie Review.