Jennifer Harris
BA (UWO), MA-English (York), MA-Women's Studies (York), PhD (York)
Dr. Harris works in the area of American literature and culture. She has been a Fulbright scholar at NYU, and holds a SSHRC grant. She is also the review editor of the Canadian Review of American Studies, the secretary of the Canadian Association for American Studies, and the Cultural Studies and Film Director of NeMLA. She has published in African American Review, American Transcendental Quarterly, Journal of American Culture, and elsewhere, and is included in the anthologies The Cultural History of Reading, Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace, and Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century (forthcoming). Her co-edited anthology (with Elwood Watson) The Oprah Phenomenon is in its second edition. Accepted forthcoming publications include "Wax Coquettes: Elizabeth Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and the Nineteenth-Century Traveling Waxwork Exhibition" (Canadian Review of American Studies); "Aprons and Pearls: Images of Phillis Wheatley" (Resources for American Literary Study); and "The Legend of John Ruskin in Nineteenth-Century Upper Canada" (Ruskin Review and Bulletin).
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