Jonathan Berliner

Contact Information

School of Arts and Humanities
Claremont Graduate University
121 East 10th Street
(909) 621-8612
jonathan.berliner@cgu.edu

Office
Humanities Faculty House
135 East 12th St., #4

Spring 2012 Office Hours

Tuesdays: 12:00 - 1:00 pm, or by appointment

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Chicago, 2008

Research Interests

American literature, Native American literature, nature writing, literature and economics, African American literature, feminism, literary and critical theory, cultural studies, and intellectual history.

Teaching Fields

Recent Courses:

• Biocultures: Transdisciplinary Perspectives (CGU, Transdisciplinary Studies)
• American Renaissance (CGU, English)
• African American Writing from the Civil War to World War I (CGU, English)
• Suffrage and Reform, Seneca Falls to the Nineteenth Amendment (CGU, Transdisciplinary Studies)
• American Literature and Economics (CGU, English)
• Native American Literature (USC, English and American Studies)
• American Literature, 1865–1920 (USC, English)
• The Literatures of America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (USC, English)
• American Authors: Literature and Economics (USC, English)
• Social Justice (USC, Arts & Letters)

Current Project(s)

Professor Berliner is currently completing a book manuscript on the politics of nature in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American writing.

Selected Publications

“Written in the Birch Bark: The Linguistic-Material Worldmaking of Simon Pokagon,” PMLA 125.1 (Jan. 2010): 73–91.

“Jack London’s Socialistic Social Darwinism,” American Literary Realism 41.1 (Fall 2008): 52–78. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism 133 (2010): 281–96.

Additional Information

Postgraduate Employment

Research Assistant Professor, Claremont Graduate University, 2010–Present

Lecturer, University of Southern California, 2009–2010

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California, 2008–2009

University Service

Co-Founder, USC Native American Studies Workshop, 2010