Jennifer Haytock

Education

• PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• BA, Haverford College

Areas of Specialty

• Twentieth-century American literature
• Modernism
• Women’s literature
• American war literature
• Literature and culture of the Jazz Age
• Literature of the 1930s
• The novel

Courses Taught

• College Composition
• Introduction to Honors
• American Literature II
• Introduction to Literary Analysis
• American Novel II
• Literature of the Jazz Age
• American War Literature
• Soldiers, Identity, and Trauma in American Literature
• American Modernism
• Topics in Women’s Literature: Women in the Marketplace
• American Literature, 1920-1945: Hemingway and Faulkner
• American Literature, 1920-1945: Faulkner and His Influence
• American Literature, 1920-1945: Cather and Hemingway

• Awards/Recognitions

  SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Work

• Recent Publications

   

  Editor, War and American Literature. Cambridge U P, 2021.

   

  Co-editor, with Laura Rattray, The New Edith Wharton Studies. Cambridge U P, 2020.

  The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature. New York: Routledge, 2018.

  The Middle Class in the Great Depression: Popular Women Writers of the Great Depression. New York: Palgrave, 2013.

  Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism. New York: Palgrave, 2008.

  At Home, At War: Domesticity and World War I in American Literature. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2003.

  David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars: A Reader’s Guide. New York: Continuum Contemporaries, 2002.

  “Teaching Home in a War and Trauma Literature Course.” Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison. Ed. Kelly Reames and Linda Wagner-Martin. Bloomsbury. (forthcoming 2023)

  “Americans in France: Women Writers and International Responsibility.” A History of American Literature and Culture of World War One. Ed. Tim Dayton and Mark W. Van Wienen. Cambridge U P, 2021. 153-64.

  “Representing Soldiers.” War and American Literature. Ed. Jennifer Haytock. Cambridge U P, 2021. 42-56.

  “Judith Wheater’s Queer Vision: Edith Wharton’s Alternative Title for The Children.” The Edith Wharton Review 36.1 (2020): 1-24.

  “Edith Wharton and the Writing of Whiteness.” The New Edith Wharton Studies. Ed. Jennifer Haytock and Laura Rattray. Cambridge U P, 2020. 158-72.

  “Sewing up the Tears: Medical Systems and the Great War in Wharton’s and Hemingway’s Short Fiction.” Wharton and Hemingway: Gender and the Advent of Modernism. Ed. Lisa Tyler. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U P, 2019. 45-65.

  “Romance, Marriage, and Family.” American Literature in Transition: The 1930s. Ed. Ichiro Takayoshi. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 2018. 42-55.

  “Popular Fiction in the 1930s,” with William Solomon. The Cambridge Companion to American Literature of the 1930s. Ed. William Solomon. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 2018. 199-217.

  “Reframing War Stories: Multivoiced Novels of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.” MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 63.2 (2017): 336-55.