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Mari Jarris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of German Studies at Cornell University and affiliated faculty in the Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. Their research focuses on intersections of feminist and queer theory, transnational socialisms, utopian literature, and Critical Theory across 19th- and 20th-century German- and Russian-language works.
- Education:
- Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Princeton University
- Dr. phil. in German Literature, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- B.A. in German Studies and College of Social Studies, Wesleyan University
Their current book manuscript, Utopia as Revolution: Marxism’s Queer Pasts and Futures, challenges scientific socialism's dominance by examining queer utopias in transnational socialist movements. Jarris also co-edits a Lu Märten reader with Dorothea Walzer and co-organizes the Marxism Working Group with Crystal Bartolovich and Paul Fleming.
Research trends in their articles reveal sustained engagement with topics like matriarchal origins of Marxism, everyday utopianism, worker precarity, and Marxist feminism. Publications span German Quarterly, Feminist German Studies, and Bloomsbury Press volumes, often emphasizing gender, ideology, and literary forms in socialist contexts.
Jarris teaches courses like Imagining Utopia (GERST 4380) and Queer Marxism (GERST 6363), alongside graduate seminars on Marxism and feminist theory.
