Myra Jehlen is Board of Governors Professor of English at
Rutgers University
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in
New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Ph.D.
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from the Department of English at the
University of California, Berkeley
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for her dissertation on
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for William Faulkner bibliography, his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in fo ...
, directed by
Henry Nash Smith
Henry Nash Smith (September 29, 1906 – June 6, 1986) was a scholar of American culture and literature. He is recognized as one of the founders of the academic discipline American studies. He was also a noted Mark Twain scholar, and the curator ...
, a founding scholar of the field of
American Studies
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City University of New York
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. She has taught at
New York University
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,
Columbia University
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University of Pennsylvania
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. She has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Fellow of the
National Endowment for the Humanities
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and the
National Humanities Center The National Humanities Center (NHC) is an independent institute for advanced study in the humanities located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States. The NHC operates as a privately incorporated nonprofit and is not part of any uni ...
, and has received a
Guggenheim Fellowship
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.
Publications
* ''The English Literatures of America 1500-1800.'' (with
Michael Warner
Michael David Warner (born 1958) is an American literary critic, social theorist, and Seymour H. Knox Professor of English Literature and American Studies at Yale University. He also writes for '' Artforum'', ''The Nation'', '' The Advocate'', an ...
. New-York: Routledge, 1997.
* ''Readings at the Edge of Literature''. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2002.
* ''Five Fictions in Search of Truth''. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008.
* ''American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1986.