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Professor Jennifer Fleissner at the University of Chicago is a distinguished scholar in American literature and critical theory, teaching since 2024. Her research intersects literature, philosophy, and gender studies, focusing on the novel as a lens for examining modernity and subjectivity.
- Education: BA from Yale University, PhD from Brown University
Her work interrogates the evolution of the novel, particularly its engagement with the concept of the will, tracing connections between American writers like Melville and Hawthorne and European figures such as Goethe. She challenges standard liberal associations of the will, reframing it through Romantic philosophy and vitalism.
Recent publications include Maladies of the Will (2022) and essays in American Literary History and Public Books, analyzing topics from democratic disenchantment to fictional ethics. Current projects explore repetition in modernity and the literary engagement with AI and the human condition.
