College of Arts and Humanities

Ruth Jenkins

Professor

English | 559.278.4922 | Office: Peters Business Bldg. 448

ruthj@mail.fresnostate.edu

Education

Ph.D., English, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 1988 (with distinction)
M.A., English, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1983
B.S., English Education, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1981

Courses Taught

Graduate courses:

Victorian Poetry and Fiction,
Major authors, including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy,
Victorian Literature and Colonialism,
British Romantic Writers,
Feminist Theory and Criticism,
English Studies Methods,
Current Writing Theory and Instruction

Undergraduate courses:

Adaptation: Austen and Brontë,
Adolescent Literacy,
Victorian Children’s Literature and Cultural Identity,
Autoethnography and Victorian Fiction,
British Romantic Poets and Female Discourse,
The Brontës,
Victorian Literature and Culture
The Rise of the Novel

Professor Jenkins joined CSU, Fresno in 1988, serving the department in a variety of ways, most recently as the ENGL BA adviser for both the literature and creative writing options. Her teaching and scholarly interests focus primarily on 19^th-century British literature and culture, feminist theory, Julia Kristeva, and writing instruction. She has published extensively, including the books Victorian Children’s Literature: Experiencing Abjection, Empathy, and the Power of Love. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 and Reclaiming Myths of Power: The Victorian Spiritual Crisis and Women Writers. Bucknell University Press, 1995.