Jessi Brewer
PhD - Fourth Year
M.A. in English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR, 2016B.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
Awards
Mandel Center for the Humanities Graduate Dissertation Innovation Grant for Reimaging Narratives for Social Change: A Study of Victorian Literature and Incarceration, 2023
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