Jolie Alexandra Sheffer

Assistant Professor, English Department

Ph.D., English, University of Virginia
M.A., English, University of Virginia
B.A., English, Northwestern University

Office: 414 East Hall
Phone: 419-372-0589

E-mail: jsheffe
Departmental Faculty Page

Research Interests:

20th-century American literature; ethnic literature; cultural studies; national identity and citizenship; intersectional analysis; Asian American studies; critical theory.

Selection of Recent & Reoccurring Courses:

Asian American Literature and Culture (ENG 480/580), Multiethnic American Literature (ENG 310), Literary and Critical Theory (ENG 607), Urban Identities

Selected Publications:

“Recollecting, Repeating and Walking Through: Immigration, Trauma, and Spatiality in Mary Antin’s The Promised Land” (forthcoming)

Entries on Onoto Watanna, Ruth Ozeki (My Year of Meats) in The Encyclopedia of Asian American Popular Culture, Greenwood Press, ed. Felicia Campbell (forthcoming).

“Standing on Top of the World:  Masculinity and Imperialism on Everest” in Sport, Rhetoric, Gender, and Globalization: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations, Palgrave/Macmillan, ed. Linda K. Fuller (forthcoming).

Essay on The Promised Land by Mary Antin in Facts on File Companion to the American Novel, ed. Abby H. P. Werlock, (2006).

Book review, Left of the Color Line:  Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States, ed. Bill V. Mullen and James Smethurst (2003), in Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2004.

Book review, “3 Asian American Writers Speak Out on Feminism” in Iris: A Journal About Women, Fall 2003.

Awards and Honors:

Raven Society, University of Virginia Honor Society, 2004.

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 2000-2004.