Jennifer Greiman
Department of English 188 Jay Street
333 Humanities Albany, NY 12210
University at Albany, SUNY 518 – 210 – 3696 (mobile)
Albany, NY 12222 [email protected]
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Department of Comparative Literature, May 2003. Dissertation: Theatres of Reform: Forms of the Public in Antebellum American Literature. Committee: Nancy Ruttenburg (Director), Samuel Otter, Judith Butler.
B.A., University of Virginia. Departments of English and French, graduated with honors 1994.
Educational Employment
University at Albany, SUNY. Associate Professor, Department of English. 2011-present.
University at Albany, SUNY. Assistant Professor, Department of English. 2004-2010.
University of California, Berkeley. Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Comparative Literature. 1997-2002.
Other Professional Employment
Associate editor, The Sheep Meadow Press (Riverdale, NY), August 2003 – April 2004.
Editorial assistant, University of California Press, Acquisitions Department (Berkeley, CA), 1996-1997.
Research
Books:
Democracy’s Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing. (Fordham University Press and
the American Literatures Initiative, January 2010).
The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire, collection of essays, co-edited with Paul Stasi
(under contract with Continuum Press).
“Melvillean Affect: Sianne Ngai’s Ugly Feelings,” book review essay solicited by Leviathan: A Journal of Melville
Studies (under review).
“Circles upon Circles: Tautologies of Democracy in Tocqueville and Melville” (article under revision for re-submission to American Literature).
“The Atlantic Wreck: Figuring Political Order in Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and Géricault’s
Raft of the Medusa” (article under revision for ESQ).
“Theatricality, Strangeness and the Aesthetics of Plurality in The Confidence-man.” Melville and Aesthetics. Eds. Geoffrey Sanborn and Samuel Otter (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011): 173-92.
“Racial Violence and the Theatrics of Opinion in Beaumont’s Marie.” Arizona Quarterly, 60.1 (Spring 2004): 1-38.
Work in progress:
“Melville’s Aesthetics of Democracy,” invited essay contribution to The Cambridge Companion to Herman
Melville, second edition, edited by Robert Levine (under contract with Cambridge University Press).
Melville’s Many, book project in progress on Herman Melville’s political imagination.
Fellowships, Awards and Grants
Individual Development Awards Program Grant, New York State / UUP, 2007-08
Dr. Nuala McGann Dresher Leave Award, Spring 2007.
Faculty Research Awards Program Grant (B), University at Albany SUNY, 2006-07.
Individual Development Awards Program Grant, New York State / UUP, 2006-07
Chancellor’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship, 2002-2003, one of 13 U.C. Berkeley fellows named.
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2002-2003.
Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-2000.
University of California Departmental Grants, 1997 and 1999.
Invited presentations
“Why Read Moby-Dick?: Recent Work on Melville”; public lecture and book review; Albany Public Library, January 2012.
“Theatricality and Strangeness in The Confidence-man”; Syracuse University, October 2006.
Conference papers
“Impossible Adjuncts: Democracy, Exceptionalism and Pierre”; Melville in Rome; Rome, June 2011.
“Confidence, Cosmopolitanism, and the Strangeness of Plurality”; American Comparative Literature Association Conference, New Orleans, April 2010.
“The Atlantic Stench: Corruption, Contagion, Empire”; Rhetorics of Plague, University at Albany, SUNY, February, 2009.
“Sovereignty and Democracy in 19th-century US Literature”; MLA Convention, “Provocations: New Paradigms in the Study of 19th-century US Literature,” San Francisco, December 28, 2008.
“‘The Thing is New’: Subjection and Domestic Tyranny in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America”; American Studies Association Annual Convention, Oakland, CA, October 2006.
“The Transatlantic Wreck: Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and Géricault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa’”; “Transatlanticism in American Literature: Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe,” Oxford University, July 2006.
“A State of the Disciplines Roundtable: The Space of the Public Sphere”; panelist, CHATS Conference: “Structure, Space, Transmigration,” University at Albany, SUNY, April 2005.
“Mimetic Reform: Hawthorne’s Romance and 19th-century Prison Reform”; Northeast MLA Convention, “The Pen: Prisons in American Fiction,” Pittsburgh, March 2004.
“The Prison Reform Movement and The Blithedale Romance”; MLA Convention, “New Perspectives on The
Blithedale Romance,” New York City, December 2002.
“The Gladiator and the Astor Place Riot: Melodrama and Violence in Antebellum New York”; MLA
Convention, “Melodrama,” Washington, D.C., December 2000.
Teaching
Courses taught at the University at Albany: English 498, Thesis Seminar I, Fall 2011. English 720, Textual Studies II, Fall 2011.
English 372, Transnational Literature: “Global Fictions”, Spring 2011. English 710, Textual Studies I (for first-year Ph.D. students), Fall 2010. English 343, “Studies in an Author: Herman Melville,” Spring 2010. English 771, “Practicum in Teaching Writing & Literature,” Fall 2009.
English 413, “Literature of Association in Antebellum America,” Spring 2009.
English 337, “Nineteenth-century American Literature,” Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Summer 2010, Spring 2011. Englsih 580, “The Literature of Transatlantic Revolution and Empire, 1750-1850,” Fall 2008.
English 210, “Introduction to English Studies,” Spring 2008, Spring 2009.
English 305Z, “Studies in Writing about Texts,” Fall 2006.
English 205Z, “Introduction to Writing in English Studies,” Spring 2006, Spring 2010, Fall 2010. English 580, “Models of History in Literary Criticism: The Transatlantic Wreck,” Fall 2005. English 261, “American Literary Traditions,” Fall 2005.
English 323, “The 19th-Century American Novel,” Spring 2005 and Spring 2006. English 432, “American Literature before 1815,” Spring 2005.
English 755, “Antebellum Spectacle: Literature and Performance in 19th-Century America,” Fall 2004. English 447, “The Historical Imagination: Transatlantic Sympathies,” Fall 2004.
Course taught at the University of California, Berkeley:
Comparative Literature H1B, “Sibling Stories: Narratives of Kinship and Nationhood,” Spring 2002. Comparative Literature 60 AC, “War Stories: Commemoration and Other Acts of History,” Fall 2001. Comparative Literature 60 AC, “Narratives of Flight in American Cultures,” Summer and Spring 2001. Comparative Literature 60 AC, “Commemoration and Nostalgia in American Cultures,” Fall 2000. Comparative Literature 1A, Reading and Composition, Fall 1998.
Comparative Literature 1A, Reading and Composition, Spring 1998. (Teaching assistant.) Comparative Literature 1A, Reading and Composition, Fall 1997. (Teaching assistant.)
Graduate Student Exam, Thesis, and Dissertation Committees
Rita Mignacca, Ph.D., 2008, exam and dissertation committees.
Matthew Pangborn, Assistant professor, English, Briar Cliff University. Ph.D. 2009. Alex Chirilia, Ph.D., 2009, exam and dissertation committees.
Bethany Aery Clerico, Ph.D. 2011, dissertation committee.
Jonathan Nash, Ph. D., 2011, doctoral exam and dissertation committees (for History Department). Angela Pneuman, doctoral exam and dissertation committees.
Erin Casey, doctoral exam and dissertation committees. Heewon Kang, doctoral exam and dissertation committees. Aaron Wittman, doctoral exam committee.
Erin Mailloux, MA 2006, exam committee. Emilee Durand, MA 2009, thesis director. Matthew Heuston, MA 2009, thesis committee. Lauren Nye, MA 2011, thesis director.
Academic Service
University at Albany, SUNY
Faculty Senate, department representative, 2011. Undergraduate Life Committee, Faculty Senate, 2011.
University at Albany, SUNY, College of Arts and Sciences Service: College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Council, 2005-2006.
Academic Programs Committee, CAS Faculty Council, 2005-2006.
University at Albany, SUNY, English Department Service: Director, English Honors Program, 2011.
Graduate Advisory Committee, 2004-2008, 2010-2011.
Graduate Admissions Committee, 2004-2008, 2011, evaluating applications for M.A. and Ph.D. programs. Hiring Committee, 19th-C American and 20th-C American, interviewed candidates at MLA, 2006.
Hiring Committee, Early Modern Literature, 2005-6; interviewed candidates at MLA, 2005. Ad-hoc Committee on Departmental Hiring Priorities, 2005.
Professional Service
Contributor / editor for the “Alexis de Tocqueville” entry of Nineteenth-century Literary Criticism (GALE / CENAGE learning).
Manuscript reviewer, Routledge and Columbia University Press, 2010-2011.
External reviewer, Explicator, January 2009.
Editor, Qui Parle: Literature, Philosophy, Visual Arts, History (Berkeley, CA), 1999-2002.
Volunteer instructor, Patton College Associates Degree Program at San Quentin State Prison: English 102, Introduction to Literature and Writing, Spring 2003.
English 101, Introduction to Literature and Writing, Fall 2002.
Languages
French, German, and Latin (reading knowledge).
Memberships
Modern Language Association American Studies Association Society for Early Americanists
