Myra Jehlen

Myra Jehlen is Board of Governors Professor of Literature at Rutgers University. She teaches and writes on topics in American and Comparative Literature, especially problems in the relations of history and literature.

Among her writings are American Incarnation: The Nation and the Continent and Papers of the Empire in the first volume of the Cambridge Literary History of the United States. In 1997, along with Michael Warner, she published The English Literatures of America, 1550-1800, a collection of texts that, read along with introductions and supporting materials, refelcts and forwards recentrevisions of the field of early American literature. One of the revisions this work features most prominently is the recognition that the culture of early America evolved transatlantically.