Background
Enders, Jody was born on May 22, 1955 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Hward and Corinne Engelsberg Enders.
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Why did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle Ages. Theories of rhetoric and law of the time reveal, she points out, that the ideology of torture was a widely accepted means for exploiting such essential elements of the stage and stagecraft as dramatic verisimilitude, pity, fear, and catharsis to fabricate truth. Analyzing the consequences of torture for the history of aesthetics in general and of drama in particular, Enders shows that if the violence embedded in the history of rhetoric is acknowledged, we are better able to understand not only the enduring "theater of cruelty" identified by theorists from Isidore of Seville to Antonin Artaud, but also the continuing modern devotion to the spectacle of pain.
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Enders, Jody was born on May 22, 1955 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Hward and Corinne Engelsberg Enders.
Bachelor in French and Russian summa cum laude, University Virginia, 1977. Master of Arts in French Literature, University Virginia, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy in Romance Languages, University Pennsylvania, 1986.
Assistant professor French University Illinois, Chicago, 1986-1992. Associate professor French University California, Santa Barbara, 1992-1996, professor French, since 1996. Dramaturge Chicago Medieval Players, 1989-1992.
Visiting Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1997.
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Member Phi Beta Kappa (Mary Isabel Sibley award 1986-1987).
Married Eric D.Hoker, August 7, 1996.