Susannah Monta

Biography

Susannah Brietz Monta is Associate Professor of English. Her books include Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England (Cambridge UP, 2005, paperback 2009; winner, Book of the Year award, Conference on Christianity and Literature); Teaching Early Modern English Prose (MLA, 2010, co-edited with Margaret W. Ferguson); A Catholic Reads The Faerie Queene: Anthony Copley’s A Fig for Fortune (Manchester UP, 2016); and Catholic Aristocrats, Jesuits, and Life Writing in Early Modern England: The Manuscript Biographies of Philip Howard and Anne Dacre Howard, the Earl and Countess of Arundel (with Earle Havens and Elizabeth Patton; forthcoming PIMS, 2027). She edited Religion and Literature from 2008 to 2015, co-edited Spenser Studies from 2016 to 2024, and is the current editor of Religion and Literature. She is a founding co-editor of the series Catholicisms, ca. 1450-1800 for Durham University's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and has served as vice-president and president of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. She has published over thirty-five articles on topics including martyrology, hagiography, devotional poetry and prose, and religion and literature methodology. She is part of a team editing the King James Bible for Oxford UP. Current projects also include a five-volume complete works of Robert Southwell for Oxford University Press (with Peter Davidson, Daniel McClurkin, and Emily Ransom) and two monographs on poetry and prayer in the Reformation period. Her work has been funded by the ACLS, the American Philosophical Society, the Folger Library, the Huntington Library, Notre Dame's Institute for Advanced Study, and Oxford University’s John Fell Fund.