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Dr. William 'Rusty' Jones  
Dr. William (Rusty) Jones
Assistant Professor of English
 
Joined MSU in 2008
 
Education
 
PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
MA, University of California, Santa Cruz
BA, Occidental College
 
 
Areas of Interest
 
Shakespeare; English Renaissance Poetry and Drama, 1500-1720; Satire (classical through modern, emphasis on Renaissance and Restoration); Politics of Theater; Genre Theory, Latin Poetry and Classical Drama
 
 
Recent Works
 
"'Say The Are Saints, Although Saints They Show Not': Reassessing John Weever's Epigrams on Marston, Johnson an Shakespeare", forthcoming in "The Huntington Library Quarterly" (Fall 2009)

"'People Have to Watch What They Say': What Horace, Juvenal, and 9/11 Can Tell Us About Satire and History"; "Helios" 36.1 (Spring 2009)

"'Lashing the Lewdness of Britannia': The Ideology of English Renaissance Imitative Satire and Conceptions of the Empire"; forthcoming in an edited volume entitled "Classical Disjunctions"

Author of the entry for "Satire" in the forthcoming edition of "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics" (Fall 2009)

Participant in the seminar "Generic Change in Context" at the 2009 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America (Washington, D.C.)
 
 
  William (Rusty) Jones
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Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky 42071

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