Jessica Conrad Assistant Professor in English; Chair of the School of Art and Humanities
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Biography
Dr. Jessica Conrad specializes in 19th and 20th century American literature, women鈥檚 studies, African American literature, and environmental humanities. She has received several awards and fellowships, including a Fulbright Scholar grant, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellowship, the Outstanding Composition Instructor Award (2019, Kent State University), and the Sypherd Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Delaware
- M.A. University of Delaware
- B.A. West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Publications
- 2022聽聽聽 Review of聽Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women鈥檚 Movement through Material Culture, 1848-2017, by Amy Helene Forss. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.聽Winterthur Portfolio, Winter 2022: pp. 285-287. DOI:聽
- 2021聽聽聽 鈥淏ottling Death and Brewing Resistance in Temperance Literature and Reform,鈥澛Elusive Archives: Material Culture Studies in Action, eds. Sandy Isenstadt and Martin Br眉ckner, University of Delaware Press, 2021, pp. 280-301. Link:聽
- 2020聽聽聽 鈥淚nterfering Women: Consumer Activism, Charity, and Women鈥檚 Rights in Frances Harper鈥檚聽Sowing and Reaping,鈥 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 144, no. 3, October 2020, pp. 349-374. DOI:聽
- 2018聽聽聽 鈥溾楶olluted Luxuries鈥: Consumer Resistance, the Senses of Horror, and Abolitionist Boycott Poetry,鈥澛American Literature, vol. 90, no. 1, Mar. 2018, pp. 1-26. DOI:聽
- 2017聽聽聽 Curator, 鈥淭he Fight for Black Mobility: Traveling to Mid-Century Conventions,鈥澛Colored Conventions Project, coloredconventions.org, 2017. Link:聽
Awards
2024, Visiting International Scholar, University of Passau
2023, Thoreau Society Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship
2022, Fulbright-Botstiber Grant
2021, Gest Fellowship, Haverford College and Special Collections
2019, Outstanding Composition Instructor Award, Kent State University
2019, Wilbur Owen Sypherd Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in the Humanities
2018, Delaware Public Humanities Institute Fellowship
2015, Andrew W. Mellon Short-Term Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia
2015, Faculty Senate Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award