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Myra Jehlen
Board of Governors
Professor Emerita of English
At Rutgers since: 1985
Retired since: 2014 |
 Curriculum Vitae
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| Professor Jehlen is the author of Readings at the Edge of Literature (2002), Class and Character in Faulkner's South (1976), American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent (1989), and "The Literature of Colonization" in Volume I of The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 1, 1590-1820 (ed. Sacvan Bercovitch, 1994). She has also co-edited a number of volumes, including The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800 (1996), with Michael Warner. Her essays deal with American writing, comparative literature, and theoretical issues in literary interpretation and history. |
| Education |
Areas of Specialization |
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
BA, The City University of New York |
Literature and Intellectual History; Nineteenth Century American Literature
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| Other Publications |
- “Félicité and the Holy Parrot”
Raritan, Spring 2007
- “Melville’s Concept of Class”
Oxford Companion to Melville (2005)
- “Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans”
Il romanzo (2002)
- “The Seditious Aesthetic of Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables” 6.1, 2002
- “F.P.”
Raritan, Spring 2002
- “Guggenheim in Bilbao”
Raritan, Spring 1999
- "Faulkner and the Unnatural: The Hamlet”
Faulkner and the Natural World: Faulkner and Yoknaptawpha (1999)
- "An Empire of One's Own: Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out"
La tipographia nel salotto: sagi su Virginia Woolf (1999)
- “Multitudes and Multicultures”
After Consensus: Critical Change and Social Change in America (1998)
- "History Beside the Fact: What We Learn from A True and Exact History of Barbadoes”
The Politics of Research (1997)
- "Banned in Concord: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Classic American Literature"
The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain (1995)
- "History before the Fact; or, Captain John Smith's Unfinished Symphony"
Critical Inquiry, Summer 1993
- “The Ties that Bind: Race and Sex in Mark Twain's Pudd’nhead Wilson”
Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson: Race, Conflict, and Culture (1990)
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| Undergraduate Courses Taught |
Graduate Courses Taught |
- Principles of Literary Study
- American Literature
- Science Fiction
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- American-British Transatlantic Relations
- Comparative Novel
- Cooper, Hawthorne, James: Style in Fiction
- Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Henry James and William Dean Howells: Two Aesthetics of American Realism
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| Awards and Distinctions |
- “F.P.” Raritan, Spring 2002; reprinted, Best Essays of 2002; Pushcart Essay, 2002.
- Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1961-1962, Dissertation Fellow 1964-1965;
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellow; 1974-1975;
- National Humanities Center Fellow, 1985-1986; Guggenheim,1990-1991 (declined ACLS Fellowship to accept Guggenheim)
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| Other Information of Interest |
- "Christopher P. Iannini: New Faculty Profiles" by Myra Jehlen (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 1)
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