Amanda Ruud

Professor Ruud’s research and teaching focus on the literature and drama of the English Renaissance. A Shakespeare scholar, her research interests include the relationship between English drama and the visual arts, classical reception, and the ethics of representing loss and grief in drama. She brings her theater interest into the classroom through courses that blend study and performance. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California with support from the USC Visual Studies Research Institute and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and served as a Lilly Postdoctoral Fellow from 2021-2023. She has published scholarly essays in multiple journals and collections including Philological Quarterly, The Routledge Companion to Adaptation, English Literary Renaissance and The Shakespearean Death Arts: Hamlet Among the Tombs. In Christ College, she teaches the First Year Program, a “Literature for the Dead” seminar, and a performance based seminar, “Shakespeare Live.”  Professor Ruud coordinates the Oxford Debates and serves as director of the First-Year Production.