Jessica Jordan

Jessica Jordan holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and currently serves as a Lecturer in the university's academic faculty. Her research focuses on 19th-century American literary and cultural history, particularly the intersection of books, bodies, and societal anxieties. She is completing her book manuscript, Anxieties of Abundance: Book and Body in America’s Gilded Age, which examines how the era's 'book flood' influenced perceptions of books as entities with autonomous agency.

Her work has been published in journals such as British Library Journal, English Literary History, and College Literature. She has received multiple prestigious book collecting awards, including the Honey & Wax Prize and Stanford’s Wreden Prize.

Jordan previously held the Jeff and Sara Small Next Generation Scholar Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center. Her research interests span American and British literature, narrative theory, and gender studies. No specific grants or advising roles are detailed in the provided information.