Susannah Monta
Associate Professor
Speciality
Renaissance Literature
Degrees
B.A., B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Profile
Susannah Monta's research focuses on the relationships between Reformation-era religious changes and literary culture. Her first book, Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England (Cambridge UP, 2005; winner, Book of the Year award from the MLA-affiliated Conference on Christianity and Literature), studies the impact of competing Protestant and Catholic martyrologies on major (Shakespeare, Donne) and traditionally non-canonical (Southwell, Copley) authors. Her new project, tentatively titled Uncommon Prayer?, explores areas of overlap and exchange between traditionally Catholic forms of devotional writing and emergent Protestant ones. She is the co-editor of Teaching Early Modern English Prose, forthcoming from the MLA's Options for Teaching series, and is working as co-editor to develop a definitive volume on John Foxe's influential Actes and Monuments. She has published articles on history plays, early modern women writers, and pedagogy; articles in progress concern early modern Catholic women patronesses, providential narratives, and Henry Vaughan's hagiographic prose.
Recent Publications
Recent Honors and Awards
Contact Information
355 Decio Hall
(574) 631-7201
Susannah.B.Monta.1@nd.edu