Jennifer Hayward

Department/Affiliation: English
Phone: 330-263-2397
Office Address: 217 Kauke
Email: jhayward@wooster.edu

Degrees

• B.A., Wesleyan 1983
• M.A., San Francisco State 1987
• Ph.D., Princeton 1992

Courses Taught

• ENGL 240: Green Romanticism (bef 1900)
• 19th Century British Literature
• Postcolonial Literature
• Women’s Travel Literature

Awards and Professional Memberships

• Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book award (1998)
• NEH Summer Stipend (2006)
• Huntington Library/British Academy Fellowship (2006)
• International Society for Travel Writing
• Nineteenth Century Studies Association
• Modern Language Association

Publications

• Author of Consuming Fictions: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soaps (University Press of Kentucky, 1997)
• Editor of Maria Graham's Journal of a Residence in Chile (University Press of Virginia, 2003)
• Editor of Maria Graham's Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (Parlor Press, forthcoming)
• She has also published articles on women’s travel writing, informal empire in Latin America, and African-American literature.

Research Interests

Hayward currently researches British and American informal empire in Latin America, with a primary focus on 19th century women travelers.