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453 Bartlett Hall
UMass
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p: 413-545-2576
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jrosenberg@english.umass.edu
Last Modified: May 2009 |
Assistant Professor
Jordana Rosenberg received an MA and PhD from Cornell University, and a BA
from Wesleyan University. She is the recipient of an Ahmanson-Getty Fellowship
from the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies at UCLA (2009-
2010), as well as a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Award, and a William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library Joint Fellowship Award. Professor Rosenberg's
fields of research and teaching include eighteenth-century transatlantic
literature and poetry, moral philosophy, political theory, early modern
materialism, Marxism, and secularization.
Professor Rosenberg's article, "The Bosom of the Bourgeoisie: Edgeworth's
Belinda" (English Literary History, 2003), won the Catherine Macaulay Prize
from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. She is the co-editor,
with Amy Villarejo, of "Queer Studies and the Crises of Capitalism,"
forthcoming as a special issue of _GLQ_. This project explores the
intersections of Marxism with contemporary work on imperialism, queer theory,
and gender studies.
Professor Rosenberg's current book project, "Critical Enthusiasm: Capital
Accumulation and the Transformation of Religious Passion," concerns itself with
two major, interrelated phenomena of the early eighteenth century: the onset of
capital accumulation and the loosening of religious discourse to describe
intellectual, aesthetic, and ethical experiences. Although this pairing may
appear heterodox, the underlying argument of "Critical Enthusiasm" is that the
effects of modernization have frequently been described through the language of
religion, and that, for this reason, economic development often takes
contradictory or counterintuitive forms at the level of culture. The project
explores the intersection of religious enthusiasm and capital accumulation in
moral philosophy, poetry, legal discourse, and political theory. Publications:
"Prophesying the Past: Secularism, Historicism, and the Critique of
Enthusiasm," forthcoming in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
"The Future Historical Perspective: Mieville's Queer Duree," (review essay of
China Mieville's Iron Council), forthcoming in GLQ 16.5.
"Queer Studies and the Crises of Capitalism," co-editor with Amy Villarejo,
forthcoming as a special issue of _GLQ_.
"The Terrestrial Transatlantic: Ground Rent and Capital Accumulation in Dorset
and the Carolina Colony," in Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century,
eds. Jennifer Frangos and Cristobal Silva, Cambridge Scholars Press,
forthcoming January 2009.
"Serious Innovation: A Conversation with Judith Butler," in The Blackwell
Companion to GLBT/Q Studies Reader (Blackwell Publishing, August 2007).
"Reading Lessons: Rasselas with The Matrix," (short essay on eighteenth-century
pedagogy and film theory), The Johnsonian Newsletter 55, no. 1 (March 2004).
"The Bosom of the Bourgeoisie: Edgeworth's Belinda ," ELH , vol. 70, no. 2
(Summer 2003).
"Butler 's 'Lesbian Phallus' or, What Can Deconstruction Feel?" GLQ 9.3 (Spring
2003). |
