2007      Ph.D., English, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK 

2002      B.A., Special Honors and English, Hunter College, C.U.N.Y 

1991      Cert., American Musical & Dramatic Academy, New York, NY 

AREAS OF RESEARCH 

• 20th Century and Contemporary British and American Literatures
• Genre Studies: Apocalypse, Utopia/Dystopia, Science Fiction, Myth & Fairy Tale
• Ecocriticism, New Materialism, Posthumanism, and Wilderness Narratives

BOOKS

Emergent Wilderness (In-progress)

Only Skin (In-progress)

Nostalgia. Anti-Oedipus Press, 2015.

JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

Jennings, Hope and Christine Junker. “Species Loneliness and Making Kin in Lydia Millet’s Extinction Trilogy.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (In Press, 2026).

“‘Now You Are at the Place of Annihilation’: Angela Carter’s Posthuman Politics.” Angela Carter's Futures: Representations, Adaptations and Legacies, eds. Sarah Gamble and Anna Watz. Bloomsbury, 2025, pp 29-44.

Jennings, Hope and Christine Junker. “Myths of Wilderness and Motherhood in Post-Apocalyptic Narratives of the Anthropocene.” Myth and Environmentalism: Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet, edited by Esther Sánchez-Pardo and Maria Porras-Sánchez. Explorations in Environmental Studies, Routledge, 2023, pp. 63-82.

Junker, Christine and Hope Jennings. “Surviving Girlhood: Wild Girls in the Anthropocene.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 29, Issue 3, Fall 2022, pp. 680–705.

“Anthropocene Storytelling: Extinction, D/evolution, and Posthuman Ethics in Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 2019, pp. 191-210.

“Encounters with the Wilderness: Unsettling Perspective in Margaret Atwood’s The Journals of Susanna Moodie.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring 2019, pp. 131-152.

“Anthropocene Feminism, Companion Species, and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy.” Contemporary Women’s Writing, Vol. 13, No. 1, March 2019, pp. 16-33.

Jennings, Hope and Christine Wilson. “Disciplinary Lessons: Myth, Female Desire, and the Monstrous Maternal in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series.” Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic (The Universal Vampire Series, Vol. 2), eds. Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan, Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2013, pp. 161-173. 

“Genesis and Gender: The Word, the Flesh, and the Fortunate Fall in ‘Peter and the Wolf’ and ‘Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest’.” Angela Carter: New Critical Readings, eds. Lawrence Phillips and Sonya Andermahr, Continuum, 2012, pp. 165-175.   

“‘A repeating world’: Redeeming the Past and Future in the Utopian Dystopia of Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods.” Interdisciplinary Humanities, vol. 27, no. 2, Fall 2010, pp. 132-146.

“The Comic Apocalypse of The Year of the Flood.” Margaret Atwood Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, August 2010, pp. 11-18.

“The Ethics of Nostalgia in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things.” Journal of Contemporary Literature, vol. 2, no. 1, January 2010, pp. 177-198.

“Dystopian Matriarchies: Deconstructing the Womb in Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains and The Passion of New Eve.” Michigan Feminist Studies, vol. 2, 2008, pp. 63-84

INTRODUCTORY AND CORE COURSES 

• Introduction to Literary Study
• Great Books: Greek Myths in Contemporary Literature                                                          

LITERATURE SURVEYS

• British Texts: Medieval to 1660                                                                                                       
• British Texts: Mid Victorian to 21^st Century
• Survey of Women and Literature

LITERATURE CAPSTONE

• Woods and Wilderness
• Ecology & Place
• Apocalypse & Eco-Cultural Work

SPECIAL TOPICS IN BRITISH LITERATURE

• Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson
• Margaret Atwood: Poetry and Fiction

STUDIES IN LITERARY GENRE 

• Eco-Narratives (cross-listed with BIO)
• Myth and Fairy Tale
• Climate Fiction & Gen Z                                                                       

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

• Environmental Ethics & Issues
• Environmental Communication

GRADUATE & HONORS SEMINARS

• Surviving Apocalypse (UH 4000)
• Posthuman Futures
• Neo-Victorian Novel
• Apocalypse in Contemporary Literature 

ENGLISH M.A. LIT

• Advisor, Culminating Project (2022): Kendra Fields, “‘But what should a Keepsake Album be?’: How Visual Performances Reclaim Narrative Authority in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace” (Distinction)
• Advisor, Culminating Project (2020): David Shields, “Richard Powers’s The Overstory: Posthuman Literatures in Post-Blight Utopias” (Distinction)
• Advisor, Culminating Project & Independent Study (2020): Esther Sorg, “Rewriting the Cassandra Myth in the Era of Global Warming” (Distinction)
• Advisor, Independent Study (2020): Ashley Fox, “Approaches to Understanding Inter/Intra-relationships between Trauma, Bodies, and Literacy”  
• Advisor, Culminating Project (2019): Dylan Colvin, “Bringing Posthumanism into the Undergraduate Writing Classroom”
• Advisor, Culminating Project (2018): Dan Schack, “Nostalgia and the Politics of the Archive in the Post-Apocalypse”

MASTER OF HUMANITIES GRADUATE PROGRAM  

• Chair, M.Hum Thesis (2016 – 2017):​ Lindsey Slanker, “Demonic Possession and Fractured Patriarchies in Contemporary Fundamentalist Horror”
• Chair, M.Hum Thesis (2015 – 2016): Abigail Sorensen, “The Feminine Sublime in 21^st Century Surrealist Cinema”
• Chair, M.Hum Thesis (2013 – 2014): Rebecca Burgan, “A Feminist Oversight: Reproductive Rights of Incarcerated Women”
• Chair, M.Hum Thesis/Creative Project (2013 – 2014): Taylr Ucker, “Defending Feminism Online: Using Social Media in the Classroom to Promote Critical Media Literacy Skills.” Project: 3-day Workshop Curriculum
• Co-Chair, M.Hum Thesis/Creative Project (2012 – 2014): Charlotte Chinn, “From the Pew to the Pulpit: African American Women’s Struggle to Gain and Maintain Leadership Positions within the Church.” Project: Oral History Narrative

INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE POLITICS GRADUATE PROGRAM

• Co-Chair, M.A. Thesis (2015 – 2016): Jasmine Underwood, “Feminist International Relations and ‘Epistemic Blank Spots’: Entrenching Hegemony?"

Associate Editor, Contemporary Women’s Writing (Oxford UP), 2020-2026

Member, Angela Carter Society, 2019-Present

Member, Margaret Atwood Society, 2019-Present

Member, Contemporary Women's Writing Association, 2013-2025

Research Associate, Project Acis & Galatea, “Cultural Myth Criticism,” Autonomous Community of Madrid and the European Social Fund, 2016-2017

Reviewer, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Mosaic, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Women: A Cultural Review

CoLA Outstanding TET Faculty Award (2025)

CoLA Outstanding Professional Service Award (2016)

Excellence in Teaching: Wright State CORE (2014)

Excellence in Teaching: Writing Across the Curriculum (2014)

Excellence in Teaching: General Education (2011)

Lake Campus Outstanding Faculty Service Award (2011)