Jennifer Linhart Wood

Jennifer Linhart Wood

Jennifer Linhart Wood

Assistant Professor

Literature: Renaissance drama, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Shakespeare

Jennifer Linhart Wood is term Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, where she teaches both literature and composition. She is the author of Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel: Uncanny Vibrations in the English Archive (Palgrave, 2019), which won the 2021 Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society’s David Bevington Award for Best New Book, and the editor of Dynamic Matter: Transforming Renaissance Objects (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022). She has articles published or forthcoming in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Shakespeare Studies, the Shakespearean International Yearbook, the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and various edited collections. Her current book project examines cues for music and sound effects in early modern dramatic texts.