Jennifer Greiman

Professor, English

Contact

Phone: (336) 758-4491
Email: greimaj@wfu.edu

Degrees

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

B.A. University of Virginia

Areas of Interest

• 18th & 19th-century U.S. literature
• Political and democratic theory
• Herman Melville

Awards

• 2014 Hennig Cohen Prize from the Melville Society

Selected Publications

Books:

• Melville’s Democracy: Radical Figuration and Political Form (Stanford 2023)
• Democracy’s Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing (Fordham 2010)
• The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire, co-edited with Paul Stasi (Bloomsbury 2013)

Recent essays & articles:

• “Democratic Aesthetics, Aesthetic Democracy,” American Literary History 35.1 (Spring 2023).
• “Oil & Light, Figure & Shadow: Democratic Aesthetics from Melville to Ellison,” Leviathan 25.1 (March 2023).
• “Melville and the Conceits of Theory” in The New Melville Studies, edited by Cody Marrs (Cambridge 2019).
• “Melville in the Dark Days of Democracy,” Leviathan 18.3 (October 2016): 11-30.
• “Feeling Green: Goethe, Melville, and the Color of Democracy,” J19: The Journal of 19th-century Americanists 3.2 (Fall 2015): 421-28.
• “Democracy and Melville’s Aesthetics,” in The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville, ed. Robert Levine (2013).
• “Circles upon Circles: Tautology, Form, and the Shape of Democracy in Tocqueville and Melville,” J19: The Journal of 19th-century Americanists 1.1 (Spring 2013): 121-46.
• “Revisiting the Citizen-Subject,” with Kir Kuiken, Postmodern Culture 22.3 (May 2012).

Associate Editor, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.