Jennifer Schell received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in the English Department’s Critical and Cultural Studies Program in April of 2006.  She also has an M.A. in English from the University of Georgia and a B.A. in Anthropology from Emory University.  Specializing in a wide variety of different kinds of American literature, she is currently working on a book manuscript entitled, “‘A Bold and Hardy Race of Men’:  The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen.”  She has also published articles on J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, William Wells Brown’s Clotel, and James Dickey’s Deliverance. Her other interests and areas of expertise include masculinity studies, trans-nationalism, maritime/frontier writing, ecocriticism, American labor history, and multicultural literatures. 

Professor of English

Phone: (907) 474-7193

Email: jschell5@alaska.edu

Office: Gruening 850