Professor Jessica S Berman
Professor · Tenured
Department of English Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies
About
Jessica Berman is Professor of English and Affiliate Professor of Gender Women's and Sexuality Studies and Language, LIteracy, and Culture. She was formerly Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities and in 2019-20 she was the Lipitz Professor in the College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences. Her books include: Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (2001), Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics and Transnational Modernism (2011), A Companion to Virginia Woolf (2015), and an edition of Purdah and Polygamy by Iqbalunnisa Hussain (2018). She co-edited Futures, the ACLA's state of the discipline report. She also co-edits the “Modernist Latitudes” book series from Columbia University Press. In 2016-17, she was president of the Modernist Studies Association.Research interests
Jessica Berman's research interests include modernism from a transnational perspective, literature and culture, and feminist and literary theory. Berman also has a special interest in questions of politics in connection to twentieth-century world literature. Her current project investigates global radio in relation to transnational modernism.Teaching interests
Jessica Berman's teaching interests include modernist literature and culture, especially modernist fiction around the world; comparative twentieth century literature; feminist theory and approaches to literature; literary and media theory.Education
- Ph D, Comparative Studies in Literature — University of Chicago (1993)
- MA, Comparative Studies in Literature — University of Chicago (1986)
- BA, History — Princeton University (1983)