Title: PhD Candidate

Department: English

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Cell Phone: 615-715-4412
Email: dc.jellerson@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

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

Research Area

• Gender Theory
• Early Modern Historiography
• Early Modern Poetics
• Hauntology
• Film Studies

Current Research

• Historiography, Gender, and Ghosts in Elizabethan Literature

Current Positions

• Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Dissertation Year Fellow, 2008-2009

Previous Positions

• Graduate Student Instructor, English 100 & 102, 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

• 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

• "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"