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Jason Berger

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Professor

  • Phone: 713.743.5834
  • Email: jberger2@uh.edu
  • Office: 235D Roy G. Cullen Building

Jason Berger is a professor of 19th century American literature and critical theory. He is the author of "Xenocitizens: Illiberal Ontologies in Nineteenth-Century America" (Fordham University Press, 2020), which offers a new approach toward antebellum political personhood that challenges liberal-humanist perspectives, and "Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America" (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), which was nominated for the MLA First Book Prize and explores how maritime narratives negotiated developing global realities. He is currently working on a book titled, 鈥淲hale Undone: Ecologies of Actuality.鈥�

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Education

  • Ph.D., University of Connecticut
  • M.A., University of Vermont
  • B.S., Central Connecticut State University

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Research Interests

Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Critical Theory (Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Posthumanism, Queer Theory, New Materialism), Environmental Humanities

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Books

  • "Xenocitizens: Illiberal Ontologies in Nineteenth-Century America" (Fordham University Press, 2020)
  • "Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America" (University of Minnesota Press, 2012)
  • "Whale Undone: Ecologies of Actuality" (In progress)

 

Selected Articles & Chapters

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