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Myra Jehlen
Board of Governors Professor of English
Contact Information
Office: 36 Union Street, 201
Campus: College Ave, New Brunswick
Email: myrajehlen@gmail.com
Telephone: (732) 932-7465
Office Hours:

On leave Spring 2008

Specialization
transatlantic cultural relations; literature and history; literary aesthetics
Biography

B.A., CUNY (City College); Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Professor Jehlen is the author of Readings at the Edge of Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2002), Class and Character in Faulkner's South (Columbia University Press, 1976), American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent (Harvard University Press, 1989), and "The Literature of Colonization" in volume I of the Cambridge History of American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1994).  She has also co-edited a number of volumes, including The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800 (Routledge, 1996), with Michael Warner.  Her essays deal with American writing, with comparative literature, as well as with theoretical issues in literary interpretation and history.

Publications
Readings at the Edge of Literature The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800
Undergraduate Courses Taught Graduate Courses Taught

Principles of Literary Study

American Literature

Science Fiction

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

American-British Transatlantic Relations

Comparative Novel

Cooper, Hawthorne, James: Style in Fiction

Henry James and William Dean Howells: Two Aesthetics of American Realism

 
 
 
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