BA, MA, PhD (Nottingham)

Teaching Fellow in Twentieth-Century American Literature

E: pj57@le.ac.uk

Research Interests

Paul Jenner's principal research interests are in American intellectual and cultural history, with particular focus on the philosopher and critic Stanley Cavell. His Ph.D. was a comparative study of Stanley Cavell, Richard Rorty and Thomas Kuhn, considering their work in relation to logical positivism and early forms of analytical philosophy. Paul’s most recent publication is The American Novel in Context (Continuum, 2011), co-authored with Brian Jarvis and Andrew Dix. He has an essay on Stanley Cavell and George Santayana forthcoming in the edited collection Stanley Cavell, Literature, and the Idea of America (Routledge, 2012).

Teaching and Administration

Paul Jenner is module convenor for ‘AM2013 Ethnicity and Diversity in American Literature’ and ‘EN3105/AM3044 American Masculinities’.