Jamey Graham, Ph.D.
- Professor of Practice English
- Assistant Director of the First-Year Writing Program English
Jamey Graham studies early modern literature, with an emphasis on the intersections between this literature and philosophy. She has offered author-focused courses on Sidney, Shakespeare, and Milton; a survey course on Renaissance literature and culture; and topic-focused courses on the history of the self, the idea of character, the scientific revolution, mysticism, sex and gender, and the history of marriage. She also teaches English composition. Dr. Graham is currently writing a book, How Character Became Literary: Identity and Epistemology in Early Modern English Literature, that explores the rise of “character” as a word, a literary-critical concept, and a literary practice in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 2012.
Education
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Publications
“Mimesis, Economy, and Civilization in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well.” Modern Philology 116, no. 2 (2018): 20-44.
“Character in The Faerie Queene: Spenser’s Phenomenology of Morals.” Modern Philology 115, no. 1 (2017): 31-52.
With Kurt Cavender et al., “Body Language: Toward an Affective Formalism of Ulysses.” In Reading Modernism with Machines: Digital Humanities and Modernist Literature, eds. James O’Sullivan and Shawna Ross (Palgrave, 2016), 223-42.
Review of Structures of Appearing: Allegory and the Work of Literature, by Brenda Machosky. Comparative Literature Studies 53, no. 3 (2016): 639-43.
“Consciousness, Self-Spectatorship, and Will to Power: Shakespeare’s Stoic Conscience.” English Literary Renaissance 44, no. 2 (2014): 241-274.
