Department of Languages & Literatures

Education

• Ph.D., Modern German Literature and Culture, University of Wisconsin, 2008
• M.A., Scandinavian Studies, Swedish Emphasis, University of Wisconsin, 2001
• M.A., Modern German Literature and Culture, University of Wisconsin, 1997
• B.A. (Honors), German, Miami University, 1996

Areas of Emphasis or Expertise

• 18^th and 20^th Century German Literature
• Hermann Broch
• Peter Weiss
• Aesthetics
• Modern Scandinavian Literatures
• Spoken languages: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Swiss German
• Research languages: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, French

Responsibilities

Selected Presentations

• Seminar Series for Fellows of the German Literary Archive (Deutsches Literaturarchiv), Neues aus der Broch-Forschung, Marbach, Germany (March 29, 2017)
• 113^th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), "…vom Blick erschaffene Einheit": Images and Seeing in Hermann Broch’s Der Tod des Vergil, Portland, OR (November 6-8, 2015)
• 37^th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association (GSA), "In eines Anderen Sache zu sprechen": Postwar Discourses on the Legitimacy of Literature in Celan, Bachmann, Hildesheimer, Denver, CO (October 3-6, 2013)
• American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), What remains? Ekphrasis and theory transfer, Toronto, Canada (April 4-7, 2013)
• 127^th Annual Convention, Modern Language Association (MLA), Panel Co-organizer and Commentator, Hermann Broch and the Modern Novel, Seattle, WA (January 5-8, 2012)
• 100^th Annual Meeting, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS), Nesser’s metafiction, Seattle, WA (April 22-24, 2010)
• 3^rd Annual Powell and Heller Family Holocaust Conference, Pacific Lutheran University, The Holocaust and the Function of Literature – Two Case Studies, Tacoma, WA (March 18-20, 2010)

Selected Articles

• Jennifer Jenkins. "Der Tod des Vergil. Art and Power, Language and the Ineffable." A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch. Ed. Graham Bartram, Sarah McGaughey, and Galin Tihanov. Rochester: Camden House, 2018: (Forthcoming).
• Jennifer Jenkins. "’Ungedrucktes aus dem Duxer Casanova-Archiv' (1918): Notizen zu einem unbekannten Frühwerk Hermann Brochs." Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte Vol. 93:1, Sept. 2017: (Forthcoming).
• K. L. Hib (Hermann Broch). "‘Ungedrucktes aus dem Duxer Casanova-Archiv’ (1918). Ediert und kommentiert von Jennifer Jenkins." Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte Vol. 93:1, Sept. 2017: (Forthcoming).
• Jennifer Jenkins. "Stig Dagerman." Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Nordic Culture. Ed. Helena Forsås-Scott, Mary Hilson, and Titus Hjelm. London: Hurst, 2018: (In press).
• Jennifer Jenkins. "Torgny Lindgren." Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Nordic Culture. Ed. Helena Forsås-Scott, Mary Hilson, and Titus Hjelm. London: Hurst, 2018: (In press).
• Jennifer Jenkins. "Birgitta Trotzig." Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Nordic Culture. Ed. Helena Forsås-Scott, Mary Hilson, and Titus Hjelm. London: Hurst, 2018: (In press).
• Jennifer Jenkins. "Out of Place: Geographical Fiction(s) in Håkan Nesser’s Inspector Van Veeteren Series." The Cartographic Journal Vol. 48:4, Nov. 2011: 285-92.
• Gottfried Boehm. "Pictorial versus iconic turn. Translated from the German by Jennifer Jenkins." Culture, Theory and Critique Vol. 50.2-3, 2009: 103-12. Translation also appears in: The Pictorial Turn. Ed. Neal Curtis. New York: Routledge, 2010: 8-16.

Accolades

• Beinecke Visiting Research Fellow, 2016-17, Yale University
• Suhrkamp Fellow, 2016-17, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (German Literary Archive in Marbach, Germany)
• Robert Bosch Foundation travel grant, June 2011, “Momentaufnahme, Familiengedächtnis, Erzählverfahren: Die Poetik des Albums in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur“ Seminar at the German Literary Archive in Marbach, Germany
• The Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg and the German-American Fulbright Commission grant, June-July 2010, Baden-Württemberg Seminar for American Faculty in German and German Studies
• Volkswagen Foundation travel grant, March 2010, The 20^th St. Louis Symposium on German Literature, Washington University: “The Ethics of Literature: Contemporary German Writers”
• Fulbright Research Award for 2004-5 academic year at Universität Konstanz, Germany, German-American Fulbright Commission