Jeremy Wells

 

Title: Visiting Assistant Professor

Research Fields of Interest: American literature, African American literature, southern literature, literature and empire

Office: Oddfellows #235
Office Phone extension: #4322
Email address: jwells@allegheny.edu
Degrees: B.A. Vanderbilt University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Michigan

Office Hours: Spring 2012
M 11:00 am- 2:30 pm
Th 8:30 am- 11:00 am
and by appointment.

Courses and Syllabi
Spring 2012
English 190*00: William Faulkner Download Syllabus
English 200*04: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 553*00: U.S. Literary Regionalisms Download Syllabus

Fall 2011
English 200*07: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 200*08: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 203*00: Studies in American Literature Download Syllabus

Spring 2011
English 200*01: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 203*00: Studies in American Literature Download Syllabus
English  490*00: Plantation Fictions Download Syllabus

Fall 2010
English 200*05: Reading Literature Download Syllabus 
English 200*06: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 203*00: Studies in American Literature Download Syllabus

Publications

Books

Essays

  • Wells, Jeremy. “Romances of the White Woman’s Burden: Chopin’s At Fault, Faulkner’s Light in August, and the Legacies of U.S. Plantation Fiction.” In Faulkner and Chopin, ed. Robert Hamblin and Christopher Rieger. Cape Girardeau: Southeast Missouri University Press, 2010
  • Wells, Jeremy. “Booker T. Washington (1856-1915).” Encyclopedia Virginia, ed. Brendan Wolfe. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. 17 Jun. 2009.
  • Wells, Jeremy. “The Arrival of Regions: The Blackwell Companion to the Regional Literatures of America” (Review Essay). Western American Literature 41.2 (2006): 202-11.
  • Wells, Jeremy. “Up from Savagery: Booker T. Washington and the Civilizing Mission. ” Southern Quarterly 42.1 (2003): 53-74.
  • Wells, Jeremy and Michael D. Sowder. “Ex Libris: Graduate Student Participation in the Making American Literatures Project.” In Making American Literatures in Secondary Schools, ed. Anne Ruggles Gere and Peter Shaheen. Classroom Practices in Teaching English, vol. 31. Urbana-Champaign: National Council of Teachers of English, 2001.
  • Wells, Jeremy.”Professional Learning; or, What Happens When Teachers Ask, “What Happens When …?” In Making American Literatures in Secondary Schools, ed. Gere and Shaheen.
  • Wells, Jeremy. “Blackness ‘Scuzed: Jimi Hendrix’s (In) Visible Legacy in Heavy Metal.” In Race Consciousness: African American Studies for the New Century, ed. Judith Jackson-Fossett and Jeffrey A. Tucker (NYU Press, 1997).

Conference Papers

  • “The Color of Quaintness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Black Song, and American Union.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, 2010.
  • “Manifest Destinies, Invisible Empires: Thomas Dixon’s Imperial Fantasies. ” St. George Tucker Society Conference, Augusta, Georgia, 2010.
  • “Uncle Remus, Absalom, Absalom! and Other Tales of the Global South.” H.O. Grauel Memorial Lecture. Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 2009.
  • “Plantation Fiction and the White Man’s Burden.” Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, 2009.
  • “The Old South under New Conditions’: Henry W. Grady, Thomas Nelson Page, and New Southern Manhood.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, St. Louis, 2009.
  • “Intersubjectivity and the Old Plantation; or, Why Joel Chandler Harris Passed as Black.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, St. Louis, 2009.
  • “The White Women’s Burden: Chopin, Faulkner, and the Old Plantation.” William Faulkner/Kate Chopin Conference, Southeast Missouri State University, 2009.
  • “Planters Nonchalant and Hospitable: Leaves of Grass and the Romance of the Plantation.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Minneapolis, 2008.
  • “Uncle Remus’s Empire.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, 2008; and Reception Studies Society Conference, Kansas City, 2007.
  • “Placing Negroes: Race and Local Color Nonfiction.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Cleveland, 2007.
  • “What “Miss Sally” Heard’: Aurality, Fidelity, and the Irony of Uncle Remus.” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, 2007.
  • “Empire and the Problem of Southern Postcoloniality.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, 2005.
  • “The Nationality of the Exotic: ’Local’ Color and the Plantation Romance.” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005.
  • “The Farther I Got Below Washington …’: Locations of Race in James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiographies.” New Directions in African-American Literature & Culture, Indiana University, 2004; and Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Univ. of Louisiana-Lafayette, 2002.  
  • “Civilizing the South: Race, Region, and National Identity in Postbellum Northern Travel Writing.” American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 2001; and Writing the Journey Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1999.
  • “Up from Savagery: Booker T. Washington and the Civilizing Mission.” Souths: Global and Local, University of Florida, 2001.
  • “New South, No South: Empire and Authority in the Works of Henry W. Grady and George Washington Cable.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Univ. of Central Florida, 2000.

Awards

  • Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, 2003
  • 21st Century Teachers Project, collaborative pedagogy grant, Indiana University, 2002
  • Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, 2000-2002
  • Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1999
  • Mellon Foundation Candidacy Fellowship, 1997
  • Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1994
  • Regents Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1994