Jennifer Nesbitt

Jennifer Nesbitt (Twitter: @JenniferNesbit8) is Professor of English at the York campus of The Pennsylvania State University and the author of Narrative Settlements (University of Toronto Press, 2005) and Rum Histories (University of Virginia Press, 2022). She serves as the editor of The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 and currently pursues inter-related projects on whiteness, rum, and fairies.

Contributions

Trifles? From Susan Glaspell to Zitkála-Šá, by Way of a Norton Anthology

The cross-cultural scholarship of Aileen Moreton-Robinson, a Geonpul woman, in The White Possessive chronicles “a process of perpetual Indigenous dispossession” that reifies both the white property-owning subject and its attendant formation, the white settler nation-state; such white subjects and states differ, historically and geographically, in form and in practice, yet the iteration