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Jennie A. Kassanoff
Associate Professor of English
Jennie A. Kassanoff, Associate Professor of English, joined the faculty of Barnard in 1994. She teaches courses in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and culture, including "American Literature, 1871-1945," "American Fiction," "Cultural Approaches to the American Past," "Shakespeare and the American Imagination," and "Sense and Disability." In addition to her teaching duties for the Department of English, she directs the American Studies Program at Barnard.
Her research focuses on post-Civil War American culture. She is currently at work on a book about voting, race and gender in American culture, the working title of which is Pregnant Chad: Gendering the Ballot. She is the author of Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race (Cambridge UP, 1994), and her essays have appeared in various books and journals, including PMLA and Arizona Quarterly.
Selected Publications
Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Editor of and introduction for Daisy Miller and Washington Square, Henry James (New York: Barnes and Noble, 2004).
“Extinction, Taxidermy, Tableaux Vivants: Staging Race and Class in The House of Mirth,” PMLA Vol. 115 (Jan. 2000): 60-74.
“Edith Wharton,” American Writers: Retrospective Supplement, A. Walton Litz ed. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1998): 359-385.
“The Poetry of Edith Wharton,” A Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry, Eric Haralson ed. (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998): 455–460.
“Corporate Thinking: Edith Wharton’s The Fruit of the Tree,” Arizona Quarterly Vol. 53 No. 1 (Spring 1997): 25-59.
“‘Fate has linked us together’: Blood, Gender and the Politics of Representation in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self,” The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, J. Gruesser ed. (University of Illinois Press, 1996): 158–181.
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EDUCATION:
AB, Harvard University
MLitt, Jesus College, Oxford University
PhD, Princeton University
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Turn-of-the-twentieth-century American literature
American studies
Disability studies