Dr. Craig Rustici

	Craig M. Rustici, Ph.D. 209 Calkins Hall Hofstra University 516-463-5465 Craig.M.Rustici@Hofstra.edu Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Craig Rustici is an Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University. He received his B.A. from Lafayette College and his M. A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His presentation "Glass Houses: Why the Subjects of Queen Elizabeth Avoided the Subject of Pope Joan" was chosen as Hofstra's Fall 2001 Distinguished Faculty Lecture and included on the 2003-2005 program for New York State Speakers in the Humanities. His book The Afterlife of Pope Joan: Deploying the Pope Joan Legend in Early Modern England has been published by the University of Michigan Press.

Craig Rustici's Publications and Lectures on Pope Joan: The Afterlife of Pope Joan: Deploying the Pope Joan Legend in Early Modern England (University of Michigan Press, 2006) investigates how writers and thinkers in early modern England retold, modified, and manipulated medieval legends concerning Pope Joan, a woman who, as the story goes, disguised herself as a man and ruled over the ninth-century church. "'Ceste Nouvelle Papesse': Elizabeth I and the Specter of Pope Joan." Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman. Eds. Carole Levin, Debbie Barrett-Graves, and Jo Eldridge Carney (Ashgate: Burlington, Vermont and Aldershot, England, 2003). 131-148. "Gender, Disguise, and Usurpation: The Female Prelate (1680) and the Popish Successor." Modern Philology 98.2 (November 2000): 271-98. "Glass Houses: Why the Subjects of Queen Elizabeth Avoided the Subject of Pope Joan." Fall 2001 Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Hofstra University..
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