Anika Jensen | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Anika Jensen

PhD Candidate

Graduate Instructor

Anika Jensen is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Kentucky. She has a BA in English from Gettysburg College and an MA in English from the University of South Alabama. Her dissertation (re)examines American women's experiences with relief work during the First World War through the lens of affect theory. She teaches English and WRD.

Contact Information

anje231@uky.edu

Research Interests

War and Memory
Gender Studies & Queer Theory
American Modernism
Affect Theory
women's literature

Affiliations

English
Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
War & Gender Work Group

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

“Wounded Bodies and the Affective Politics of Disgust in Ellen La Motte’s The Backwash of War,” War, Literature, and the Arts (forthcoming)

“‘I Wonder If Any Song Will Ever Mention It’: Locating Precarious Time in The Lord of the Rings,” Tolkien Studies, vol. 21 (forthcoming)

“167^th Infantry Regiment Uniform” in History of Mobile in 22 Objects, History Museum of Mobile, 2020

“Flowers and Steel: The Necessity of War in Feminist Tolkien Scholarship,” Tolkien Studies, vol. 16, 2019, pp. 59-72, https://doi.org/10.1353/tks.2019.0006

“Death of Merriwether Lewis,” Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in American History, Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 2019.