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Melissa Jensen

(she/her/hers)

Fisher-Bennett Hall 319

Office Hours

spring 2025

W 1-4, other times by appointment

 

Melissa Jensen received both undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, returning in 2009 to teach. Her primary areas of academic interest are Children's Literature, 18th-20th Century British Literature, the Gothic, and Adolescence in Media and Society. And stuff like cautionary tales, bog bodies, memento mori, and where the grim(m) intersects with 21st Century pop culture.

Courses Taught

fall 2025

spring 2025

ENGL 0775.301 The Living Dead  

fall 2024

ENGL 2355.401 Happily Ever After?  

spring 2024

fall 2023

ENGL 0372.301 Juvenilia  

summer 2023

spring 2023

fall 2022

summer 2022

spring 2022

fall 2021

summer 2021

spring 2021

fall 2020

spring 2020

fall 2019

summer 2019

spring 2019

fall 2018

summer 2018

spring 2018

fall 2017

spring 2017

fall 2016

summer 2016

spring 2016

fall 2015

ENGL 121.601 Writing for Children  

spring 2014

fall 2013

spring 2012

fall 2011

ENGL 121.601 Writing for T(w)eens  

fall 2010

ENGL 121.601 Writing for T(w)eens  

fall 2009

ENGL 121.601 Writing for T(w)een Readers