Teaching

Jenny teaches surveys of English literature from Beowulf to Milton, Shakespeare (including “Global Shakespeares” and “Shakespeare and Film”), and Utopia, as well as advanced seminars on “Fiction in the Early Modern World,” “Renaissance Drama,” “Shakespeare and Science,” and “Literature and the Scientific Revolution.” Jenny has won numerous college teaching prizes, including the Cornell Graduate and Professional Assembly Faculty, Teaching, Advising, and Mentoring Award (2019) and the NYU Faculty of Arts and Science Teaching Innovation Award (2021).

Jenny's graduate teaching prioritizes interdisciplinarity, in terms of topic and methodological approach, and throughout her career at Cornell and NYU she has taught graduate classes on the history of rhetoric as well as the relationship between literature and science in the Renaissance. Most recently Jenny has been offering graduate seminars on “Theorizing Fiction in the Early Modern World” and “Utopia: From Thomas More to Science Fiction.”

Jenny has served on doctoral committees in the disciplines of English, Comparative Literature, History, Medieval Studies, Romance Studies, and Science & Technology Studies.

In addition to her college teaching, Jenny regularly leads scholarly and professional development workshops. Since 2021 she has served as Co-Director for “Researching and Writing the Early Modern Dissertation,” a year-long interdisciplinary seminar for advanced graduate students at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She has also been an invited speaker at the Cornell University Future Professors Institute, coordinated by the Cornell Graduate School.