Jennifer Greeson

(2008)
Assistant Professor
American Literature, American Studies

Degrees

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

B.A. Duke, 1994

Books

  • Our South:  Region, Nation, and World in U.S. Literature (in progress).
  • Ed., with Robert B. Stepto. Charles Chesnutt, The Conjure Tales:  A Norton Critical Edition (in progress).

Articles

  • “Imagining the South.” The Cambridge History of the American Novel, ed. Leonard Cassuto, Claire Eby, and Benjamin Reiss (in progress).
  • “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), 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

  • Class of 1936 Bicentennial Preceptorship, Princeton University, 2006-2008
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (designated “We the People” project), 2006
  • Mellon Fellowship, Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities, 2001-2003
  • Mrs. Giles Whiting Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, 1999-2000
  • Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1995-1999