Jennifer L. Lieberman

I completed my Ph.D. in English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in May 2011, and I hold a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Florida. My interests are varied and include American Literature and Culture, Critical Pedagogy, Gender and Women’s Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and the Digital Humanities. An interdisciplinary scholar, I have held research fellowships at the Bakken Library and Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. My recent work  can be found in the Mark Twain Annual (2010) and in the collection of original essays, Demands of the Dead: Executions, Storytelling, and Activism, which is forthcoming from the University of Iowa press in 2012. Since 2004, I have been teaching various courses on composition, gender and women’s studies, and American literature and culture in both university and prison settings. Beginning in Fall 2011, I will be a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in Cornell University’s Department of Science and Technology Studies, and I will be teaching African American literature in Auburn Prison through the Cornell Prison Education Program.