Jennifer Ann Wenzel

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Associate Professor
Affiliation	Columbia University
Email	jw2497@columbia.edu
Mailing Address	Department of English & Comparative Literature 602 Philosophy Hall MC 4927 Columbia University 1150 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 Joint Appointment with: Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, & African Studies
Phone/Fax Number(s)	(212) 854-8109
Countries of Specialization	South Africa ; India ; Nigeria
Education	1998. University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D., English. Dissertation thesis: “Promised Lands: J.M. Coetzee, Mahasweta Devi, and the Contested Geographies of South Africa and India.” 1995. American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), Summer Hindi Language Program Mussoorie and Varanasi, India 1992. Indiana University: M.A., English 1990. Austin College: B.A., English and History (with Honors in English)
Research Interests	Postcolonial literature and theory, with particular emphasis on the Anglophone literatures of West and Southern Africa. See also: http://english.columbia.edu/people/profile/499
Publications	Books 2009. Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Durban, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press) Co-edited book 2017. Co-edited with, Imre Szeman and Patricia Yaeger Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment. (New York: Fordham University Press) Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles or Book Chapters 2014. “Petro-Magic-Realism Revisited: Un- imagining and Re- imagining the Niger Delta,” in Oil Culture, edited by Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) Pp. 221-225. 2011. “Consumption for the Common Good?: Commodity Biography Film in an Era of Postconsumerism.” Public Culture 23.3 (Fall 2011): 573-602. 2010. “Literacy and Futurity: Millennial Dreaming on the Nineteenth Century Southern African Frontier.” Utopia/Dystopia: Historical Conditions of Possibility, edited by Michael Gordin, Gyan Prakash, and Helen Tilley. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. 45-72. 2006. “Petro-Magic-Realism: Toward a Political Ecology of Nigerian Literature,” Postcolonial studies 9.4 (December 2006): 449– 64.
Keywords	Postcolonial theory ; decolonization ; African & South Asian literatures ; environmental humanities