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. She earned her MA in English
from San Francisco State University and her BA in English from Northwestern
University. Before joining the UF faculty in 2006, she held visiting positions
at Mills College in Oakland, CA and Hamilton College in Clinton, NY; she
also served as a volunteer instructor at California State Prison, Solano.
Her primary research and teaching interests are in early American literatures and cultures. She has taught classes on captivity and prison narratives, literature and sexuality, American literatures of cross-cultural contact, and the American gothic tradition.
She is beginning work on a book exploring the interrelationship between race and sentiment in early American criminal captivity narratives. Her article, “Seeing Other-Wise: Reading a Pequot Indian Execution Narrative,” will appear in Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology (forthcoming from University of Massachusetts Press). She has also published articles in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature and in the collection The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Culture (Routledge 2000).
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4343
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 281
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <jschorb@english.ufl.edu>