Our Team - Jennifer Glaser

Glaser is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at the University of Cincinnati. She is also affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Judaic Studies. Glaser received her PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory and a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and her BA in English from Columbia University. Glaser’s research focuses on critical race theory, American literature, medical humanities, gender, and disability. Her monograph, “Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination,” was published in 2016 (Rutgers UP) and she has published critical and creative work in venues including PMLA, ImageText, MELUS, the New York Times, Miracle Monocle, and an anthology of personal essays from Random House. Her new work looks at the intertwined histories of eugenics and American literature. Glaser co-leads OPEN’s Training Core.