哥伦比亚大学英语和比较文学系导师教师师资介绍简介-Jennifer Wenzel

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Jennifer Wenzel
Director of PhD Careers Advising; Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies

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310 Philosophy Hall, Mail Code: Mail Code 4927, United States

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+1 212 854 3215
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Jennifer Wenzel

Research Interests

Postcolonial Theory and Decolonization
African and South Asian Literatures
Environmental Humanities
Energy Studies
Science and Environmental Studies
Postcolonial and Global South
Africa
20th and 21st Century

Biography

B.A. English and History, Austin College, 1990; M.A. English, Indiana University, 1992; Ph.D., English/ Ethnic and Third World Literatures, University of Texas at Austin, 1998.
Jennifer Wenzel is jointly appointed in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. She is an affiliate of the Columbia Climate School.
Her first book,?Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond, published by Chicago and KwaZulu-Natal in 2009, was awarded Honorable Mention for the Perkins Prize by the International Society for the Study of Narrative. With Imre Szeman and Patricia Yaeger, she co-edited?Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment?(Fordham 2017). Her recent monograph,?The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature (Fordham 2020),?was a Finalist for the 2020 Book Prize by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) and was shortlisted for the 2022 Ecocriticism Book Prize awarded by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. As part of the After Oil Collective, she co-authored Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice (Minnesota Forerunners Series, 2022).
Her essays on postcolonial theory, environmental and energy humanities, memory studies, and African and South Asian literatures, have appeared in journals including?Alif,?Cultural?Critique,?Modern Fiction Studies,?Novel: A Forum on Fiction, PMLA,?Postcolonial Studies,?Public Culture,?Research in African Literatures,?Resilience, and Substance. She has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, ACLS, NEH, and Princeton University's Davis Center for Historical Studies. She is currently at work on a new book project, "The Fossil-Fueled Imagination: How (and Why) to Read for Energy."
Read a Columbia College Today profile of Professor Wenzel. View her scholarship at academia.edu.