Jenna Gersie

Jenna Gersie graduated with her PhD in English in May 2025. Her dissertation, Living Knots: Ties to Matter, Kin, and Place and the Log Cabin in American Literature, is situated within the environmental humanities and nineteenth-century American literature. In it, Jenna 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, species extinction, and global environmental injustices. Jenna is managing editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment and mother to Willa and Ramona.