Department of English

Jessi Brewer

PhD - Third Year
Graduate Representative
M.A. in English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR, 2016
B.A. in English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR, 2012
jdbrewer@brandeis.edu

 

Primary Advisor

John Plotz

Research Interests

Victorian Literature and Empire, Medical Literature, Carceral Studies, Public Humanities

Presentations

“Mapping Bodies and Medical Discourse in Martin R. Delany’s Blake in the Huts of America.” Northeastern Modern Language Association. Baltimore, Maryland, March 2022.

“Mass Incarceration and Racial Justice in America.” Brandeis Provost Teaching Innovation Grant: Sessions on Racial Justice. Brandeis University, Spring 2022.

Favorite Work

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, LOTR by Tolkien, and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte