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Jennifer James serves as Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies at The George Washington University, specializing in nineteenth century African American literature, Black ecocriticism, war narratives, and cultural memory. Her influential scholarship includes the award-winning book "A Freedom Bought with Blood" and the recently completed manuscript "Captive Ecologies: The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery," examining slavery's legacy through ecological frameworks.
Her academic credentials include:
- Ph.D., English, University of Maryland
- M.A., English, Syracuse University
- A.B., English, The College of William and Mary in Virginia
James pioneers intersections of race, environment, and historical trauma, notably developing Black ecocriticism to analyze how racial capitalism shapes ecological imagination. Her war literature research spans from the Civil War to World War II, while her current work on "Black Jack: Andrew Jackson and African American Cultural Memory" traces ancestral enslavement by President Jackson to interrogate cultural memory.
Her publication pattern reveals consistent engagement with Black literary traditions confronting historical violence. Key thematic threads include war's impact on cultural production, ecological dimensions of racial capitalism, and disability politics in wartime contexts, often bridging literary analysis with environmental and disability studies.
Her scholarly recognition includes:
- CHOICE Outstanding Academic title, 2008 for "A Freedom Bought with Blood"
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James actively shapes academic discourse as president of C19: The Society for Nineteenth Century Americanists and member of the Jackson Hermitage Plantation's slavery advisory group. She serves on the editorial board of "Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture" and will join the "American Literature" journal board in January 2025, further demonstrating her leadership in literary and ecocritical communities.
