Jolie Sheffer, Assistant Professor

jsheffe@bgnet.bgsu.edu

414 East Hall
419-372-0589

Degrees and Institutions:

Ph.D. English Language & Literature, University of Virginia, Fall 2006
M.A. English Language & Literature, University of Virginia, 2003
B.A. English, Northwestern University, 1998

Courses Taught: ENG 310, Multi-Ethnic American Literature, ENG 480/580 Asian American Literature and Culture

Area: Literature

Research Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature & Culture, Race & Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, Psychoanalysis

Recent Publications:

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

Essay on The Promised Land by Mary Antin, Facts on File Companion to the American Novel, ed. Abby H. P. Werlock. New York: Facts on File, 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). Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2004.

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