Jennifer Haytock: SUNY Brockport

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Jennifer Haytock, Ph.D

(she/her/hers)

Professor and Interim Associate Dean, Chancellor’s Award Recipient for Scholarship: (585) 395-5832
jhaytock@brockport.edu
Office: Liberal Arts 149B

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
Guilty Pleasures: What we talk about when we talk about 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.