Faculty and Staff
Faculty and Staff
PhD Northwestern
Office: Watson 424
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Extension: 74442
E-mail: dujardin@queensu.ca
Alphabetical letters and literary identity, early modern elementary pedagogy, the cultural history of English spelling, Renaissance poetics, poetic theory and metrics, erotics and poetics, English philology (a “new philologism”), gender theory and sexuality, modes and methods of “close reading.”
Wrapping up publications on depictions of elementary instruction in Shakespeare and the “perversion” of Edmund Spenser’s spelling in The Shepheardes Calender (1579), Professor Dujardin is working on her book on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English language reform and the formation of English literary identity. This work traces seminal iterations of English authorship to early modern disputes over English letters (the ABCs), and devises new ways of understanding concepts of literary identity in relation to elements of language.
A study of the cultural foundations of Renaissance poetics is also in the works. This project will feature Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth (among others), to consider how and why certain poetic forms “take,” or become canonized in English, while others (e.g., English quantitative verse) do not.
New to the English department at Queen’s, Professor Dujardin has thoroughly enjoyed teaching the undergraduate seminar and lecture on Renaissance Poetry and Prose, and looks forward to teaching graduate courses in English poetry, early modern education, and English philology. This spring, she will be presenting the keynote address at the “Inquiry@Queen’s” conference on undergraduate teaching.
Last modified on 31/08/2009