Jennifer Jenkins

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 and Cultural History
• Hermann Broch
• Theories of the masses
• Aesthetics
• Modern Scandinavian Literatures
• Spoken languages: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Swiss German
• Research languages: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, French

Responsibilities

Selected Presentations

• 45^th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association (GSA), ’Die Bildsehnsucht des panikbedrohten Menschen’: Visual Framing in Hermann Broch’s Theorizing of the Masses, Indianapolis, IN (virtual) (September 30-October 3, 2021)
• 43^rd Annual Conference of the German Studies Association (GSA), The End of Portraiture: Hermann Broch’s ‘Über die Möglichkeit des modernen Porträts’, Portland, OR (October 3-6, 2019)
• German Studies Association of Australia (GSAA) Biennial International Conference, Confounding Casanova with the Theory of Relativity: Hermann Broch’s Rediscovered Early Work, "Ungedrucktes aus dem Duxer Casanova-Archiv", Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (November 28-30, 2018)
• 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. Translation of excerpts from Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Natur-Historie des Schweitzerlandes (Natural History of Switzerland) (1716). Mountains and the German Mind: Translations from Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009. Eds. Sean Ireton and Caroline Schaumann. Rochester: Camden House, 2020: 49-75.
• Jennifer Jenkins. "Der Tod des Vergil. Art and Power, Language and the Ineffable." A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch. Eds. Graham Bartram, Sarah McGaughey, and Galin Tihanov. Rochester: Camden House, 2019: 189-206.
• Jennifer Jenkins. "Edition und Kommentar zu K. L. Hib (Hermann Broch) 'Ein offiziöser Gschaftlhuber der Kultur' (1918)." Studia austriaca. Vol. 26, 2018: 5-17.
• Jennifer Jenkins. "'Ein Fiasko des Geistes'. Hermann Broch’s Rediscovered Early Critique 'Ein offiziöser Gschaftlhuber der Kultur' (1918)." Studia austriaca. Vol. 26, 2018: 19-44.
• Jennifer Jenkins. "Hermann Brochs ‘Ungedrucktes aus dem Duxer Casanova-Archiv’ (1918): Notizen zu einem unbekannten Frühwerk." Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte. Vol. 93:1, Sept. 2017: 297-310.
• 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: 311-320.
• Jennifer Jenkins. "Stig Dagerman." Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World. Eds. Helena Forsås-Scott, Mary Hilson, and Titus Hjelm. Aarhus University (Denmark) and University of Helsinki: (Forthcoming).
• Jennifer Jenkins. "Torgny Lindgren." Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World. Eds. Helena Forsås-Scott, Mary Hilson, and Titus Hjelm. Aarhus University (Denmark) and University of Helsinki: (Forthcoming).
• Jennifer Jenkins. "Birgitta Trotzig." Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World. Eds. Helena Forsås-Scott, Mary Hilson, and Titus Hjelm. Aarhus University (Denmark) and University of Helsinki: (Forthcoming).
• 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

• K.T. Tang Award for Excellence in Research, December 2017, Pacific Lutheran University
• Beinecke Visiting Research Fellow, 2016-17, Yale University
• Suhrkamp Fellow, 2016-17, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (German Literary Archive in Marbach, Germany)
• PLU Provost’s Office travel funds, March 2014, “Crossing the Disciplinary Divide: Conjunctions in German and Holocaust Studies,” Washington University, St. Louis
• 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