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Jess Shollenberger
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Jess Shollenberger
Candidate statement
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literatures in English, Bryn Mawr College
In 2021, I joined the Department of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College as a VAP. I teach and write about queer theory, twentieth-century American poetry, and the queerness of the ordinary in literary modernism. My first book, Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism, was published by Ohio State University Press in 2025 in their Abnormativities series. My writing has also appeared in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, College Literature, South Atlantic Review, Jacket2, University of Toronto Quarterly, and elsewhere. With Mary Wilson, I am coeditor of a forthcoming volume of essays, Domesticity and Queer Theory. At MSA conventions past, I’ve presented on Gertrude Stein’s portraiture and Marianne Moore’s hard-boiled eggs (and her friendship with Elizabeth Bishop). With Laura Tscherry, I’ve co-led a seminar, Intimate Methods, where we asked how intimate practices of research, reading, and writing have been useful to Black, queer, trans, and disability studies approaches to the study of modernism. In January, at MLA, I spoke about mentorship in modernist studies at Generous Modernisms, a roundtable convened by Kate Schnur and Jess Masters. I’m always excited to talk about poems, why we write, how to read Stein, being a contingent academic worker, and the ordinary—what sustains you?
In 2021, I joined the Department of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College as a VAP. I teach and write about queer theory, twentieth-century American poetry, and the queerness of the ordinary in literary modernism. My first book, Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism, was published by Ohio State University Press in 2025 in their Abnormativities series. My writing has also appeared in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, College Literature, South Atlantic Review, Jacket2, University of Toronto Quarterly, and elsewhere. With Mary Wilson, I am coeditor of a forthcoming volume of essays, Domesticity and Queer Theory. At MSA conventions past, I’ve presented on Gertrude Stein’s portraiture and Marianne Moore’s hard-boiled eggs (and her friendship with Elizabeth Bishop). With Laura Tscherry, I’ve co-led a seminar, Intimate Methods, where we asked how intimate practices of research, reading, and writing have been useful to Black, queer, trans, and disability studies approaches to the study of modernism. In January, at MLA, I spoke about mentorship in modernist studies at Generous Modernisms, a roundtable convened by Kate Schnur and Jess Masters. I’m always excited to talk about poems, why we write, how to read Stein, being a contingent academic worker, and the ordinary—what sustains you?
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