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Donald Jellerson

Title: Lecturer

Department: English

Office: 423 Benson
Phone: 322-6979
Cell Phone: 615-715-4412
Email: donald.jellerson@vanderbilt.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 2009
  • M.A. Vanderbilt University, 2005
  • B.A. 'summa cum laude' University of Washington, 2003

Research Area

  • Gender Theory
  • Early Modern Historiography
  • Early Modern Poetry and Drama
  • Hauntology, Spectral Aesthetics
  • Film Studies

Current Research

  • Historiography, Gender, and Ghosts in Elizabethan Literature

Current Courses

  • WGS 150: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
  • ENGL 209: Shakespeare
  • ENGL 118W: Lit & Cultural Analysis

Current Positions

  • Lecturer, Department of English
  • Lecturer, Women's and Gender Studies

Previous Positions

  • Robert Penn Warren Dissertation Year Fellow, 2008-2009
  • Graduate Student Instructor, 2004-2008
  • Co-Founder: Queer Theory Reading Group (Robert Penn Warren Center) 2004-2006
  • Vice President: English Graduate Student Association, 2006-2007
  • Treasurer: English Graduate Student Association, 2005-2006

Professional Societies

  • Modern Language Association
  • Shakespeare Association of America

Professional Honors

  • Edgar Hill Duncan Award for Distinguished Overall Graduate Career, 2009
  • Mellon-funded Residential Seminar in "Belief and Unbelief" at the University of Warwick, July 2008
  • Dissertation Enhancement Grant, 2008
  • Arts and Science Summer Research Award, 2008
  • Rose Alley Press Achievement Award, 2007
  • Arts and Science Summer Research Award, 2007
  • Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies, 2007
  • John M. Aden Award, 2006

Publications

  • "The Spectral Historiopoetics of The Mirror for Magistrates" in Journal of the Northern Renaissance 2 (2010)
  • Hysteria and the Camera in Letter from an Unknown Woman" in Quarterly Review of Film and Video 27.5 (2010)
  • "Tears and Violence in Titus Andronicus" in On the Verge of Tears, ed. Michele Byers and David Lavery (forthcoming).

Miscellaneous

Dissertation:
"Ghost Complaint: Historiography, Gender, and the Return of the Dead in Elizabethan Literature"