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About Jennie<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

My teaching and scholarship challenge the centrality of nation and periodization to literary studies, exploring minor spaces\u2014smaller than nations or regions\u2014as literary archives with vast temporal boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I teach courses in literature and writing in community colleges, prisons, international exchange programs, and traditional four-year institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My writing tarries in cities, alleys, sidewalks, hotels, and houses across centuries, nations, and overdetermined literary epochs. Trauma, I argue, scrambles time and shreds map. Writing on trauma can benefit from following scraps and fragments outside of conventional archives and schematic histories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Works in Progress<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Porgy\u2019s Cart: The South\u2019s Weird Century<\/em>. The hero of George Gershwin\u2019s Porgy and Bess<\/em> transits the streets of Charleston in a goat cart. My book in progress\u2014a hybrid work of scholarship and travel writing\u2014offers a roadside history of Southern culture in the slower vehicle of the goat cart. It tarries in Charleston\u2019s Catfish Row, in the suburbs of New Orleans (authorized by film tax credits to play any city), and in serial killers\u2019 dump sites along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chef\u2019s Sabbath <\/em>is a memoir of addiction and recovery, organized around a series of Mondays: the day that New Orleans restaurants lock their doors. The memoir tarries with the paradoxes of regret, resentment, and recovery, and narrates the explosive affair that preceded my decision to get sober.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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