Jennifer Brody

Associate Professor of English & Performance Studies

University Hall Room 119
Telephone: (847) 491-3496
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: j-brody@northwestern.edu

Jennifer DeVere Brody is the Weinberg College Board of Visitors Research and Teaching Professor as well as an Associate Professor of English. She also holds courtesy appointments in the Departments of African American Studies and Performance Studies. Her research focuses on questions of race, gender, and sexuality in visual culture and popular literature. Her first book, Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and Victorian Culture (Duke UP, 1998) explored the circum-Atlantic traffic in literature, theatre and art in 19th century Britain and America. Her second project, Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play (under contract with Duke, forthcoming in 2008) looks at new formations of punctuation in print culture, new media as well as performance. She has received awards from the Ford Foundation, the Society for Theatre Research in Great Britain and the Monette-Horwitz Trust among others. Her essays appear in edited volumes such as Black Cultural Traffic (Elam and Jackson), Dancing Desires (Desmond), Cruising the Performative (Brett, Case, Foster) and Performing the Body/Peforming the Text (A. Jones and A. Stephenson). Her articles have been published in journals such as Callaloo, Text and Performance Quarterly, Signs, Genders, and Theatre Journal. She has served on the boards of Callaloo and American Quarterly and was the President of the Women and Theatre Program.

Publications by Jennifer Brody

Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and Victorian Culture

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