Jennie Youssef holds a BA and MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut. As a doctoral student in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY, she on the Graduate Student Essay Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies for, “A Querelle of Queens: An Alternate Reading of Antoine de Montchrestien’s La Reine D’Escosse,” in 2017. Recently, her essay, “Zambra, Codes of Honor, and Moorish Dress: Transculturation in Calderón’s Love after Death,” at the International Conference of Young Researchers for Theatre Studies, which received The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society’s Alexandra Johnston Award in 2020.
