Jennifer Yusin

Jennifer Yusin is an Associate Professor of English and Philosophy at Drexel University's College of Arts and Sciences, where she serves as Director of Women’s and Gender Studies. Based in MacAlister Hall, she teaches across English, Philosophy, and the Honors College while co-editing the Journal of Modern Literature.

Education:

• PhD, Emory University

Research Focus: Her work interrogates intersections of race, gender, and embodiment through trauma studies, postcolonial theory, and transnational frameworks. Key projects include analyzing 1947 British India Partition trauma in The Future Life of Trauma (Fordham UP, 2017) and developing a non-reductive theory of the body in her manuscript Transformations of Bodies. Her scholarship spans global anglophone literatures, psychoanalysis, and biopolitics with emphasis on marginalized epistemologies.

Editorial Leadership: As co-editor of the Journal of Modern Literature and co-translator of psychoanalytic texts for Paris-based Hermann Press, she shapes discourse in modernist and critical theory fields. Her teaching cultivates interdisciplinary approaches to cultural embodiment through courses in global modernism, transnationalism, and queer theory.