Christina Jen | Faculty Bio
Christina Jen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
2049 T.H. Harris Hall
225-771-4281
christina.jen@sus.edu
ABOUT ME
CHRISTINA JEN is an Assistant Professor of English at Southern University and A&M College. She is a passionate educator with a wide range of teaching experiences in a variety of classroom settings. She has taught diverse student populations—including international, first-generation, non-traditional, and underrepresented students—at institutions such as Southern University (HBCU), Western Colorado University, Union County College (HSI), and Rutgers University. She has also taught overseas in China at Central China Normal University (Wuhan, Hubei). She specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, and her research interests include the Victorian novel, theater and performance studies, gender studies, women's literature, and global melodrama. Her current book project, Reading as Acting: The Novel's Casting Call and Readerly Performance in the British Nineteenth Century, explores the relationship between representations of reading and theater culture, with special focus on the performance of identity in the female reader.
EDUCATION
PhD, Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2022
MA, Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2014
BA, English and Political Science, Montclair State University, 2011
COURSES TAUGHT
English Literature I
English Literature II
World Literature
Freshman Composition I
Freshman Composition II
Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Major British Authors
Myth and Culture
Global Melodrama
Borderlands: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Victorian Novel
Victorian Drama
Theater and Performance Studies
Gender Studies
Global Melodrama
PUBLICATIONS
"Margaret Oliphant's Experiment of Humour: Miss Marjoribanks as the 'Satirist's Collection.'" Humour Across Victoriana. Routledge, 2025 (forthcoming).
"'D'ye hear?': Listening for Echoes of Empire in Dion Boucicault’s Jessie Brown; or, the Relief of Lucknow." Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 46, no. 1, Jan. 2024, pp. 99-115.
"'Drop the Curtain': Astonishment and the Anxieties of Authorship in Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz," Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 49, no. 2, Sep. 2018, pp. 249-78.
LANGUAGES
English
Mandarin Chinese