Jenna Gersie
- Assistant Teaching Professor
Jenna Gersie received her PhD in English from the University of Colorado Boulder, specializing in nineteenth-century American literature and the environmental humanities. She also holds graduate certificates in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Digital Humanities, and College Teaching. In her book project, Log Cabin Ecologies: Matter, Race, and Domestic Environments in American Literature, she employs material ecocriticism to illuminate the log cabin’s role in histories of settlement, slavery, assimilation, and resistance and to reveal possibilities for strengthened relationships in our present time of anthropogenic climate change and global environmental injustices. Her scholarly writing has appeared in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment and is forthcoming from Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture. Jenna is managing editor of ISLE and was recently supported by a Reader’s Grant as a fellow at the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop.
Areas of Specialty
- American Literature
- Environmental Literature