Jess Shollenberger

Bio

Jess Shollenberger is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College. Their research focuses on queer modernism, domesticity, and the ordinary. Shollenberger has published writing in College Literature, Jacket2, South Atlantic Review, and elsewhere. Their first book, “Reading Ordinary Queerness: Modernism without the Closet,” is under contract with Ohio State University Press.

Contributions

“Ruthless Personalizers”: Queer Theory and the Uses of The Personal

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Personal writing is having a moment. The recent attention to autotheory has enlivened longstanding debates about the politics of the personal as a critical scholarly mode, opening out new lines of inquiry into genre, method, and argument specifically around minoritarian aesthetics and the potential of scholarly work to elaborate forms of social justice. [1] Across what Robyn Wiegman has called “identity knowledges,” the institutionalized fields of study that focus on gender, race, ethnicity...

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queerness theory