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Jean Gregorek
Associate Professor of Literature
B.A., Ohio State University; M.A., University of York (England); Ph.D., The Ohio State University.
Teaching Responsibilities
Literary and Cultural Theory; The Post-colonial Text; Literature of Imperialism; Introduction to Multicultural Literature; British Modernism; Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster and the Bloomsbury Group; Modern British Drama; The Nineteenth-Century Novel, Detective Fiction.
Scholarly Interests
Jean’s research and teaching interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century British literature, Caribbean literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, working-class literature, labor issues, and theories of gender and sexuality.
She has recently completed an extensive research project on Victorian self-help literature and narratives of upward mobility. Her first article, on pulp fiction, was published in a collection entitled Delights, Desires, and Dilemmas: Essays on Women and the Media. She has also contributed reviews to The Journal of American Folklore and made contributions to local arts publications on feminist issues.
Recent Presentations
"The Cultural Politics of the Prison-Industrial Complex in the Era of Globalization." Presented at an international conference on "Globalization and Representation: Politics, Visuality, Performance." The University of Brighton, Brighton, England. March 2005.
"Paris Despair: The Failure of Modernist Cosmopolitanism." Presented at the seminar "Views From Elsewhere" at The Annual Meeting of the Modernist Studies Association. Vancouver, British Columbia. October 2004.
"Samuel Smiles and the Empire." The Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Studies Association. Special Topic: Global/Local--The History of Nineteenth-Century Imperialism. London, England. 2003.
"Narratives of Ressentiment: Masculinity and Modernism in Gissing and Nietzsche." The Annual Meeting of the Modernist Studies Association. Madison, Wisconsin. 2002.
"The History of the Prison." Antioch College Summer Documentary Institute. Special Topic: Witnessing Prison. Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. 2001.
"Contemporary Corporate Culture: Two Views From the Left." The Annual Meeting of the Marxist Literary Group. Special Topic: Marxism and its Theoretical Others. The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 2001.
Recent Publications
"The Odd Man: Masculinity and the Modern Intellectual in George Gissing's 'Born in Exile'", forthcoming Nineteenth Century Studies.
"'Factories of Exclusion': The Politics of Prisons in the Era of Globalization," in Made In Prison: Contemporary Art by Incarcerated Men and Women. Catalog for Exhibition. Edited and with an Introduction by Julia Dwonkowski and Kye Potter. 2003.
Conferences Attended
Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC 2005.
Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia 2004.
"Back to the Future: Generations of Feminism," a Conference on the Future of Feminism at the Center for Gender Studies, The University of Chicago, Chicago. February 2004.
Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, New York 2002.
Seminars, Institutes
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Modernist Paris, in Paris, France. July - August 2006.
American Philosophical Society Frontiers of the Humanities Symposium, Special Topic: "Worlds in Motion: Migration, Boundaries, Identities." Potsdam, Germany, October 2007.
Other Activities
Co-Organizer, "Human Rights and Wrongs in the War on Terror," a six-part series of events at Antioch College, Fall 2006.
Speaker on History and Politics of Prisons.
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