Jennifer Greiman

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley18th- and 19th-century American and transatlantic literature 

jgreiman@albany.edu

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Jennifer Greiman received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley (2003), and her B.A. in English and French language and literature from the University of Virginia (1994). Her areas of research and teaching include antebellum American and transatlantic literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. She is the author of Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing (Fordham 2010) and co-editor with Paul Stasi of The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire (Continuum 2012).  She is currently at work on a book about Herman Melville and the idea of the political. 

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