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Assistant Professor
Jordana Rosenberg received her MA and PhD from Cornell University , and her BA from Wesleyan University . She has held a William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Joint Fellowship Award at UCLA, and has taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College . She specializes in eighteenth-century moral philosophy, early modern aesthetics and political theory, and the comic novel. Her fields of research and teaching include eighteenth-century transatlantic literature, pre-Kantian ethics, early modern materialism, Marxism, and secularization.
Her article, "The Bosom of the Bourgeoisie: Edgeworth's Belinda ," was published in English Literary History (2003), and won the Catherine Macaulay Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. She is the co-editor, with Amy Villarejo, of Capital Q , forthcoming from NYU Press. Capital Q explores the intersections of Marxism with contemporary work on imperialism, queer theory, and gender studies.
Her current book project, The Comic Symptom of Capital: Enthusiasm, Secularization, and the Pre-History of Economic Forms, 1660-1801 , gives a materialist account of the comic as mediating economic transition in the long eighteenth century. The Comic Symptom establishes a geneaology of comic form that extends from moral philosophy through the novel of manners, and regards both genres as struggling to articulate a vision of social order that accounts for the economic conditions that made capitalism possible. The Comic Symptom thus exposes the historical drive at the core of comic form, and demonstrates the comic's role in periodizing the economic transformations that conditioned debates in political discourse, on both sides of the Atlantic , throughout the long eighteenth-century.
Publications:
"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)
"Reading Lessons: Rasselas with The Matrix," The Johnsonian Newsletter 55, no. 1 (March 2004)
Capital Q: Marxism and Queer Theory, co-
edited with Amy Villarejo, forthcoming NYU Press
"Serious Innovation: A Conversation with Judith Butler," in The Blackwell Companion to GLBT/Q Studies Reader (Blackwell
Publishing, August 2007).
"The Terrestrial Transatlantic: Ground Rent and Capital Accumulation in Dorset
and the Carolina Colony," Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century, eds.
Jennifer Frangos and Cristobal Silva (Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming
January 2009).
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