Dr. Jennifer Reed received her PhD from the University of Virginia in English Language and Literature. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century literature and culture and has been published in journals such as Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and Caribbeana, as well as edited volumes including Debates in the Digital Humanities.

Education

• PhD, University of Virginia, English Language and Literature
• MSc, University of Edinburgh, Literature and Modernity
• BA, University of Cambridge, English

Courses Taught

• College Composition

Selected Publications and Presentations

• “Representing Sexual Violation in the Archive of Caribbean Enslavement,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 49 (2020): 89-107.
• “Moving Fortunes: Caribbean Women’s Marriage, Mobility, and Money in the Novel of Sentiment,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 31, no. 3 (2019): 509-28.
• “Performances of Suffering and the Stagecraft of Sympathy.” In The Eighteenth Centuries: An Interdisciplinary Investigation, ed. David Gies and Cynthia Wall (Charlottesville; London: University of Virginia Press, 2018), 264-75.
• “Making it Matter.” In Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities (Debates in the Digital Humanities series), ed. Matthew Gold and Lauren Klein. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Co-authored.
• “Sites of Terror and Affective Geographies on Thomas Thistlewood’s Breadnut Island Pen,” Caribbeana: The Journal of the Early Caribbean Society 1, no. 1 (2016): 34-62.
• “Fooling Around: Female Stand-Ups and Sexual Joking,” Journal of Popular Culture 48, no. 4 (2015): 703-13.

Honors and Awards

• Short-Term Library Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library
• Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Professional Affiliations

• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies