Jill P Ingram

Jill Ingram is a Professor at the Civitas Institute and a fellow in the Program on Humanities and the Western Tradition at the University of Texas at Austin.

Ingram’s research focuses on the intersection of economics and literature in the English Renaissance. Author of Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England (Notre Dame University Press, ReFormations series [James Simpson, David Aers, and Sarah Beckwith, eds.] March 2021), Idioms of Self-Interest: Credit, Identity, and Property in English Renaissance Literature (Routledge, 2006; paperback, 2009), and the New Kittredge edition of Shakespeare’s play Love’s Labour’s Lost (Hackett, 2011), she has also recently published essays in the collection Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Taylor and Francis, 2021), and in the journals Shakespeare Studies, English Literary Renaissance and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She also studies theater history and festive culture, with a particular interest in London’s Lord Mayor’s shows in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Ingram received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia. She previously taught at the University of Florida, Ohio University and Macalester College. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Earhart Foundation.