Dr. Melissa Jenkins
Assistant Professor of English
Contact
Office: C112 Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-3919
Email: jenkinms@wfu.edu
Degrees
PhD Harvard University
MA Harvard University
BA Wake Forest University
Areas of Interest
- 19th Century British Literature and Culture
- History of the Novel
- Gender Studies
- Regional American Literature (New England and the American South)
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
ENG 743 Victorian Sensation
ENG 360 The Global Victorian
ENG 353 Nineteenth Century British Fiction
ENG 300 Portraits of the Artist in British Literature
ENG 150 Science Fiction(s)
ENG 111 Tales of Mystery and Terror
ENG 111 Animals Make Us Human: Service Learning Course
Selected Publications
"Stamped in Hot Wax: George Meredith's Narratives of Inheritance." Victorian Literature and Culture 39 (2011): 525-543.
"You are 'father,' you know: Hardy's Palimpsests" Fathering in Victorian Fiction, ed. Natalie McKnight. Cambridge Scholars, 2011. 185-206
"'The Poets are With Us': Frederick Douglass and John Milton." Modern Language Studies 38:2 (Winter 2009): 12-27.
"'His Crime was a Thing Apart': Elizabeth Gaskell Writes a Father’s Life." Victorians Institute Journal, 36 (2008): 245-274.
"'Was ever hero in this fashion won?’: Alternative Sexualities in the Novels of George Meredith."Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature, ed Richard Fantina.
Entries and reviews in The Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature (Greenwood, 2005), The Encyclopedia of African American Literature (Greenwood, 2005), and the Journal of British Studies (48.2, April 2009).
Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland Press, 2006. 124-133.