The Bible and the Bard: How Conservative Protestants Made Shakespeare “Secular Scripture”

Join us for a public lecture by Professor Jillian Snyder, the Assistant Director of the Glynn Family Honors Program at University of Notre Dame, where she also serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor. Her research focuses on the intersection of religion and literature, past and present. Professor Snyder’s book project, Sincere Performances: Scripting the Body in Post-Reformation England, examines how preachers and players in Shakespeare’s England grappled with the lived bodily experience of Protestant reform. She also writes on the reception of Shakespeare in American religious communities from the 19th through the 21st century, exploring how these communities find in Shakespeare a source of cultural capital.

Professor Snyder received her Ph.D. (2019) from the University of Notre Dame. Prior to joining the Glynn Honors Program, Professor Snyder taught at Christ College, Valparaiso University’s Honors Program.