Anika Jensen

Biography:

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.

Research Interests:
War and Memory
Gender Studies & Queer Theory
American Modernism
Affect Theory
women's literature
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)

“167th 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.