Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts & Science
Jennifer Baker is associate professor of English, where she specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature and intellectual history. She is the author of Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America, co-editor of a special issue of Early American Literature on “Economics and Early American Literature,” and board member of the Melville Society Cultural Project, which organizes archival research, visiting fellowships, programming, and lectures related to Herman Melville at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. She is currently at work on a book entitled “American Romanticism and the Victorian Concept of Life,” which examines works by Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Poe, Hawthorne and Dickinson as part of a general reconsideration of American Romanticism in relation to the life sciences.