Jennifer Clement

Dr. Jennifer Clement serves as Senior Lecturer in English Literature within the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland, part of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of New Hampshire and her Doctor of Philosophy from Vanderbilt University. Before her current role, she held a position at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. An affiliate of the Centre for Critical and Creative Writing, Dr. Clement's academic journey reflects her extensive travels and diverse experiences, having lived in London, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Christchurch.

Dr. Clement's research focuses on early modern literature and religion, adaptation studies, the history of print culture, the history of emotions, Shakespearean film adaptations, and book history. Her monograph, Reading Humility in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2015), explores humility as a virtue, trope, and problem in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English texts. Currently, she is working on a book about early modern English sermons and emotions, which has led to publications including "Bowels, emotion, and metaphor in early modern English sermons" (The Seventeenth Century, 2019), "He being dead, yet speaketh: the preacher's voice in early seventeenth-century posthumous sermon collections" (Renaissance Studies, 2018), "The Art of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century English Sermons" (English Studies, 2017), and "Dearly beloved: love, rhetoric and the seventeenth-century English sermon" (English Studies, 2016). Other significant works encompass "Beyond Shakespeare: early modern adaptation studies and its potential" (Literature Compass, 2013) and contributions to edited volumes such as Georgette Heyer, history and historical fiction (UCL Press, 2021) and Playfulness in Shakespearean adaptations (Routledge, 2020). She has secured funding through a UQ Early Career Researcher grant for "Passions and Preaching: The Early Modern English Sermon, 1603-1660" (2015) and UQ Teaching Innovation Grants (2016-2018). Dr. Clement has successfully supervised multiple PhD candidates to completion, with theses on topics ranging from Shakespearean performance and gender in early modern prose romance to literary exclusions in Shakespeare's plays. Additionally, she has contributed to public lectures and creative works, such as "By the word preached: preaching, emotion, and the Anglican tradition" (2018).

Professional Email: j.clement@uq.edu.au