Jennifer L. Fleissner (Email; phone 812-855-2834)
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Brown University 1998
M.A. Brown University 1993
B.A. Yale University 1989

RESEARCH INTERESTS
19th- and 20th-century American literature, realism and naturalism, feminist and critical theory, theories of modernity, literature and science, history of psychology, cultural studies

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PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Books:
Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism (University of Chicago Press, 2004)

Articles:
“Obsessional Modernity: The ‘Institutionalization of Doubt,’” Critical Inquiry, forthcoming

“The Biological Clock: Wharton, Naturalism, and the Temporality of Womanhood,” American Literature, forthcoming

“Women and Modernity,” in Peter Stoneley and Cindy Weinstein, eds., The Blackwell Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900-1950 (Blackwell, forthcoming)

“Poe’s Imp, Melville’s Formula,” Fictions, forthcoming

“The Future of Scholarly Publishing,” Profession 2002 (co-authored with fellow members of the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Scholarly Publishing): 172-186

“Is Feminism a Historicism?” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 21, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 45-66

“Dictation Anxiety: The Stenographer’s Stake in Dracula,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 22, no. 3 (Fall 2000). Reprinted in Leah Price and Pamela Thurschwell, eds., Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture (Ashgate, 2004)

“The Work of Womanhood in American Naturalism,” differences: a Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 8, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 57-93

Recent Talks:
“Feminism and Rationalization: Rethinking the Gender of Modernity.” The Lora Romero Memorial Lecture, Stanford University, 2004

“Animals Feed, Individuals Taste: Surviving on Scraps in James’s ‘Cage,’” Cooking Cultures Conference, Institute of English Studies, London, 2004

Session organizer and chair, “Obsession and the Narratives of Modernity,” Modern Language Association, San Diego, 2003

“The Epidemic of Doubting,” Modern Language Association, San Diego, 2003

Respondent and chair, “Narratives of Affect in Fin-de-Siècle America,” Narrative: An International Conference, Berkeley, 2003

“’A Nature of the Tropics’: Regionalism, Psychology, and Race in Turn-of-the-Century Writing,” Southern American Studies Association, Tallahassee, 2003