Jennifer Fleischner
Professor
English
Adelphi University
United States of America
Biography
Jennifer Fleischner completed Ph.D., Columbia University (1988) B.A., Williams College (1977).Nominated for Lincoln Prize, MRS. LINCOLN AND MRS. KECKLY: THE REMARKABLE STORY OF THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN A FIRST LADY AND A FORMER SLAVE, Broadway Books, 2003. MASTERING SLAVERY: MEMORY, FAMILY, AND IDENTITY IN WOMEN'S SLAVE NARRATIVES, listed in "Lingua Franca" (March 1998) in its "Breakthrough Books" column. Selected reviews of books: Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus, Booklist, The Washington Post, Civil War Book Review, Baker Books.net, Bookreporter.com, The Washington Times, The Richmond Times Dispatch, North and South, Virginia Magazine of HIstory and Society, Black Issues Book Review, Lincoln Forum, H-Net Book Reviews, Choice, Journal of American History, Amsterdam News, Carib News, Psychoanalytic Books, Studies in American Fiction, American Literature, Clio, Georgia Historical Quarterly, Journal of the Early Republic, JASAT NWSA Journal, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Charleston Chronicle, Journal of Southern HIstory.
Research Interest
American slavery, biography, historical fiction.
Publications
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(2006). Nobody's Boy. MO: University of Missouri Press.
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Ed. (2010). Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl". Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's Press.
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(2015). A History of Adelphi University. Boston, MA: Pearson.
