Most people just see the sphinx. Then they notice the circles looped onto the sphinx’s backside, connecting it to an inexplicable J shape. Then the eye moves up to the name of a 1920s magazine: “FIRE!

When Jenny Fran Davis set out to write her second book, she had already tasted literary success with her debut novel, 2017’s young adult coming-of-age story “Everything Must Go.” But instead of ...

Rebecca Ann Bach is Professor of English, specializing in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama. She is the author of Birds and Other Creatures in Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare, Descartes, and ...

Trans identity long predates the 20th century, according to this ambitious debut from Gordon, an English professor at Bryn Mawr. Delving into the literature of the Renaissance, mainly religious ...

Renaissance literature and its classical and biblical backgrounds; Elizabeth I and the writers of her court; the Bible and literature; fantasy. Spenser’s Heavenly Elizabeth: Providential History in ...

The senate's highest accolade goes to Distinguished Professor Margaret Ferguson. Margaret Ferguson, a distinguished professor of English at the University of California, Davis, is the recipient of the ...

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies relies on the talents, scholarship and research of affiliated faculty across Saint Louis University, including faculty in the departments of English, ...