Dr. Jody Jensen's dissertation analyzes novels from South Africa and Ireland to examine how the peripheral and under-analyzed daughter figure is increasingly engaged as a symbol of the developing post-colonial state. She plans to expand the scope of her dissertation and publish it as a book-length project.

Academic Degrees

Ph.D. English, University of North Dakota, 2016

M.A. English, African-American literature and theory and Native American literature, University of St. Thomas, 2007

B.A. English, American literature, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, 2004

Awards & Honors

Faculty Star (nominated by Presidential Scholars, University of North Dakota) University-wide recognition, nominated by students, University-wide recognition, nominated by students

William Budge Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department scholarship, nominated by department at University of North Dakota

Kathrine B. Tiffany Scholarship, Department scholarship, nominated by professors at the University of North Dakota.

Josephine Clarke Taillon Scholarship, Department scholarship, nominated by professors at the University of North Dakota.

Myrtle Ducan McCrea Memorial Scholarship, Awarded to recipients of good moral character with personalities and attitudes which suit them well for the continued study of English Literature. Recipients must show high scholastic potential and achievement. University of North Dakota.

Publication Highlights

Review, Women Travel Writing and Truth, ed. Clare Broome Saunders (Forthcoming)

"Lady's Slippers: Stepping into the Space of the Woman Colonizer in Catharine Parr Traill's The Backwoods of Canada." The Journal of Settler Colonial Studies (Forthcoming)

Review, The Postcolonial World, ed. Jyotsna G. Singh, David D. Kim. The Journal of Postcolonial Writing. (In progress)

Teaching and Research Interests

Post-colonial literature and theory, gender and transnationalism, 19th and 20th-century British literature, postcolonial pedagogy, Indian literature of partition and diaspora, the literature of South Africa and Ireland, Flim and visual media, African -American literature and theory.
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