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Jennifer Oliver is an Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, specializing in 16th-century French literature, culture, and thought. Her research bridges literary studies with histories of science, medicine, and technology, alongside eco-critical and nonhuman theories. She teaches pre-modern texts from medieval to the 18th century, integrating critical theory and film into her courses.
- Current Project: Mineral Matters: Crafting Ecologies and Early Modern French Literature
- Interdisciplinary Network: Co-founder of Writing Technologies (2018)
Research Interests:
- Intersections of poetics, craft, and non-human nature
- Materiality and embodiment in literature
- Eco-critical and nonhuman theory
- Metaphor theory (notably 'matterphor')
Publications focus on early modern French literature, material culture, and cross-disciplinary dialogues. Her 2019 monograph Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing explores material-metaphorical tensions in Renaissance texts.
Collaborations: Engaged with scholars at the University of Oxford and co-edited the forthcoming Elemental Objects volume with BREPOLS' Techne series.
