English Department || Jeffers

Dr. Jennifer Jeffers

Dr. Jennifer Jeffers
Associate Professor
20th Century British Literature
Office : RT 1838
Phone : (216) 687-3975
Email : j.m.jeffers53 @csuohio.edu

Academic Areas of Interest:

Literary theory and 20th-century British literature. Her current research is in 20th century art and literature, and the contemporary Irish novel.

Educational Background:

Professor Jeffers took her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Emory University in Atlanta.

Professional Background:

Her first teaching post was at the University of South Dakota where she taught a variety of 20th Century British and Irish Literature courses, critical theory, culture studies and film courses.

Publications:

She has edited a collection of essays on Samuel Beckett's drama, Samuel Beckett: A Casebook (Garland, 1998); she is co-editor of an anthology of aesthetics and critical theory, Contextualizing Aesthetics: From Plato to Lyotard (Wadsworth 1998); she has two new books under contract, Gender, Bodies and Power: The Irish Novel in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century (St. Martin's Press) and Uncharted Space: The End of Narrative (Peter Lang), which combines her interests in 20th Century aesthetics, theory, painting and literature. Professor Jeffers has articles in Mosaic, The Journal of Narrative Technique, Text & Presentation and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (forthcoming).

Personal:

Dr. Jeffers is originally from Southeastern Ohio.