Academic Specialty:
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Classes:
ENG 4860, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, MWF 10-10:50
ENG 2050, Studies in British Literature, MWF 12-12:50
ENG 3000, Approaches to Literary Studies, MWF 1-1:50
Office Hours:
By appointment.
Education:
- Ph.D., University of Georgia
- M.A., University of Georgia
- B.M., DePauw University
Selected Publications:
“The Embodied Mind of Boswell’s The Hypochondriack and the Turn of the Century Novel.” Boswell and the Press: The Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell, Esq. Ed. Donald J. Newman. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, forthcoming early 2021, 128-143.
“Things of the Spirit: Vibrant Matter in A Sentimental Journey.” Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey: ‘A Legacy to the World.’ Ed. W.B. Gerard and M.C. Newbould. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, forthcoming early 2021, 150-168.
“’the true State of our Condition’: The 21st-Century Worker as Castaway.” Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade Across Languages, Cultures, and Media. Ed. Jakub Lipski. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2020. 135-147.
“’I had made it myself’: Convergence of Past and Present Selves in Villette.” Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday. Ed. Jarrad Cogle, N. Cyril Fischer, Lydia Saleh Rofail, and Vanessa Smith. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. 91-108.
“’I have you in my eye, sir’: The Spectacle of Kingship in The Madness of King George.” The Cinematic Eighteenth Century. Ed. Srividhya Swaminathan and Steven Thomas. New York: Routledge, 2018. 58-71.
"'We know only names, so far'": Samuel Richardson, Shirley Jackson, and Exploration of the Precarious Self." Co-author with Michael T. Wilson. Shirley Jackson: Influences and Confluences. Ed. Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger. Burlington, VT: Routledge, 2016. 7-24.
Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Henry Fielding. Co-editor and contributor with Elizabeth Kraft. New York: MLA, 2015.
Jennifer Wilson specializes in British Literature with interests in influence and adaptation studies.
Title: Professor
Department: Department of English
Email address: Email me
Phone: (828) 262-2338