Jennifer Greeson

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Admissions

Office Address/Hours

431 Bryan Hall / Tuesdays, 9-11 a.m. and by appointment.

Class Schedule

T/Th 12:30-1:45 p.m. and 3:30-4:45 p.m.

Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University

M.A. and M.Phil., Yale University

B.A., English, Duke University

Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature (Harvard University Press, 2010)
Ed., with Robert B. Stepto, Charles Chesnutt, The Conjure Stories (W.W. Norton, 2011)
Ed., with Scott Romine, Keywords for Southern Studies (University of Georgia Press, 2016)

“Thomas Hobbes, the Virginia Company, and the Invention of Corporate Sovereignty” Critical Inquiry 52:1 (Autumn 2025).
“Speculation and Scientific Method: Thomas Harriot’s Virginia IPO” American Literature 97:2 (June 2025): 237-70.
“Both Ends of the Telescope: Black Majority’s Global Local” William & Mary Quarterly, 3rd series 82:1 (January 2025): 119-123.
“Plantation and Enlightenment” in The Cambridge History of Literature of the U.S. South, ed. Harilaos Stecopoulos (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 54-69.
“What Was ‘Southern Literature’?” American Literary History 32:3 (Fall 2020): 573-538.
“American Enlightenment: The New World and Modern Western Thought,” American Literary History 25:1 (Spring 2013): 6-17.
“The Prehistory of Possessive Individualism,” PMLA 127:4 (October 2012): 918-924.
“Expropriating The Great South and Exporting ‘Local Color’: Global and Hemispheric Imaginaries of the First Reconstruction” American Literary History 18:3 (Fall 2006): 496-520.
“The ‘Mysteries and Miseries’ of North Carolina: New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” American Literature 73:2 (June 2001): 277-309.
“The Figure of the South and the Nationalizing Imperatives of Early United States Literature” Yale Journal of Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities 12:4 (Winter 1999): 209-48.