Susannah Brietz Monta
دانشیار · Renaissance / Early Modern English Literature
University of Notre Dameمعرفی
Susannah Brietz Monta is Glynn Family Honors Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where she researches and teaches Renaissance & Reformation literature with particular attention to early-modern religion, martyrology, and devotional writing. She is co-editor of Spenser Studies, founding co-editor of the Durham University series "Catholicisms, ca. 1450-1800," and has held leadership roles in the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
- M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
- B.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- B.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Professor Monta’s scholarship explores the intersection of literature and religion in the early modern period. She investigates how devotional poetry, prose, and hagiographic narratives shaped confessional identities during the English Reformation. Current emphases include the poetics of prayer, repetition, and affect; recusant reinterpretations of canonical texts such as The Faerie Queene; and collaborative scholarly editions of Catholic martyrs’ lives.
Her monograph Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2005) won the Conference on Christianity and Literature Book of the Year award, and she has published more than thirty articles on topics ranging from Queen Katherine Parr’s psalm translations to John Foxe’s transformation of virgin-martyr legends.
Selected Awards & Fellowships:
- Book of the Year, Conference on Christianity and Literature
- Grants: American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, Oxford John Fell Fund
Current Projects & Editorial Work: Monta is co-editing the Lives of St. Philip Howard and Anne Dacre Howard for the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and preparing a five-volume Oxford edition of the complete works of the Jesuit poet Robert Southwell. She is also completing a monograph on prayer, poetry, and repetition in the Reformation era.
