B.A., Boston University
M.Phil., Ph.D., University of Cambridge

Jennifer Formichelli teaches both first and second-year Core humanities. After receiving a BA in literary history from BU in 1996, she completed an MPhil in American literature and a PhD in English literature at the University of Cambridge, where she wrote her thesis on 'Scenes and Situations in T.S. Eliot's Epigraphs'.

Her interests range widely across English poetry from Shakespeare to Modernism, including Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, the King James Bible, the metaphysical poets, Tennyson, Lear & Carroll, the Great War poets, T.S. Eliot and William Empson. She is particularly interested in allusion and metaphor, paratexts and marginalia, speech-acts and linguistic philosophy, the history of literary criticism and the art of the essay.

Professor Formichelli has published in Essays in Criticism, Notes and Queries and the Cambridge Quarterly. She is currently a co-editor of The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot (Faber & Faber, forthcoming), and is working on a book on T.S. Eliot, humiliation, and humility.

She also recently completed a monograph on Shakespeare's debt to Marlowe, and has just begun work on a series of essays and photographs in honour of George Orwell: 'How the Poor Eat', 'Politics and the American Language', and 'Some Thoughts on the Common Lobster'.

Professor Formichelli lives in Jamaica Plain with her two dogs, Millicent and Charles. She can be often be found walking around the Emerald Necklace and up the Arboretum hills in the best of canine company. She also enjoys figure skating, music, riding the bus, watching films, and reading The New York Times dutifully, day by day.