Department of English

Jennifer Greeson

Associate Professor

431 Bryan Hall

434-243-1585

Contact

Office Hours: M 9:00 a.m.-noon

Class Schedule: MW 12:30-3:15 p.m.

Specialties:

American, Early American

Degrees

Ph.D. Yale (American Studies), 2001
M.A., M.Phil. Yale, 1997
B.A. Duke, 1994

Books

Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature (Harvard University Press, 2010)
Ed., with Robert B. Stepto, Charles Chesnutt, The Conjure Stories (W.W. Norton, 2011)
Ed., with Scott Romine, Keywords for Southern Studies (University of Georgia Press, 2016)

Selected Articles

"American Enlightenment: The New World and Modern Western Thought." American Literary History 25:1 (Spring 2013): 6-17.
"The Prehistory of Possessive Individualism." PMLA, October 2012.
“Imagining the South.” The Cambridge History of the American Novel, ed. Leonard Cassuto, Claire Eby, and Benjamin Reiss (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 236-251.
“Expropriating The Great South and Exporting ‘Local Color’: Global and Hemispheric Imaginaries of the First Reconstruction.” Hemisphere and Nation, ed. Caroline Levander and Robert Levine (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2008), pp. 116-39. (Earlier version in American Literary History 18:3:
496-520).
“’Ruse It Well”: Reading, Power, and the Seduction Plot in The Curse of Caste.” African American Review 40:4 (Winter 2006—40th-anniversary special issue on the 19th-century writer Julia C. Collins): 769-778.
“Colonial Planter to ‘American Farmer’: South, Nation and Decolonization in Crèvecoeur’s Letters.” Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies, ed. Malini Johar Schueller and Edward Watts (New
Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2003), 160-186. (Earlier version in Yale Journal of Criticism 12:4: 209-48).
“Wharton’s Manuscript Outlines of The Age of Innocence: Three Versions.” Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence: A Norton Critical Edition, ed. Candace J. Waid (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003), 412-419.
“Mysteries and Miseries of North Carolina: New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”
American Literature 73:2 (June 2001; special issue: “Violence, the Body, and ‘the South’”): 277-309.
“The Historian as Literary Critic: Gail Bederman’s Manliness and Civilization.” Borderlines: Studies in American Culture (Swansea, Wales)5:3 (Autumn 1998): 274-79.

Selected Awards