Jodi Schorb
Assistant Professor
Jodi Schorb received her PhD in
English (with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Research and Theory) from
University of California at Davis in 2006 and joined the UF faculty in 2006. Her teaching and research interests include early American literature (particularly Indian captivity, execution, and crime narratives), eighteenth-century print culture, the history of literacy, theories of gender and sexuality, prison studies, and LGBT studies.
Her articles, reviews, and review essays appear in Early American Literature, Legacy, GLQ, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and in edited collections by Routledge, University of Massachusetts, and University of Georgia Presses. She serves on the University of Florida LGBT Concerns Committee and the advisory board for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
She is completing on a book on the relationship between early American prison writing, literacy education, and discourses of reformative incarceration.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4334
- voice: (352) 294-2837
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <jschorb@ufl.edu>