Biography

Dr. Jessica Tvordi is an Associate Professor of English at SUU. She teaches introductory writing and literature courses, as well as courses in British Literature through the Romantic Period. Dr. Tvordi’s research interests include Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton, as well as non-public drama (the court masque, Inns of Courts plays, and university performances), all of which she examines within a New Historicist framework that considers the role the rhetoric of social deviance plays in narratives of nation formation in early modern England.

Dr. Tvordi's first novel, The Schoolmaster, is available for pre-order on Amazon and Kobo.

A native of Connecticut, Dr. Tvordi headed west in 1993, when she earned an M.A. in English at the University of Wyoming. After completing her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 2002, she taught for a year at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA before joining the English Department at SUU in 2003. When she's not reading for pleasure, she can be found cycling the mountain bike trails and gravel roads in and around Cedar City.