Jordan Greenwald
French
BA French Studies and Comparative Literature
University of Pennsylvania
Phd Comparative Literature
University of California, Berkeley
Hailing from a small town outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jordan moved to the Bay Area in 2010 to pursue a PhD in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. He earned his PhD in August 2019 after completing a dissertation on hopelessness and the poetics of nature in French and American Romanticism. At Cal, he taught over ten different classes on English literature and composition, French language, and ethnic studies, including courses on nature poetry, race and American horror, and "the real housewives of comparative literature.” As both an undergraduate and graduate student, he has spent about a year's time living and studying in France, including Paris, Tours, and Avignon.
Jordan's academic and intellectual interests include literature of the long nineteenth century, American and European Romanticism, queer studies, ecocriticism, and lyric poetry. He has published scholarly writing in Qui Parle, Arizona Quarterly, and Women’s Studies. At present he is working on a research project about the convergences of environmentalism and abolitionism in nineteenth-century literature. In his spare time, he likes to hike, bake, read, and watch horror films (from the schlockiest of B-movies to art-house cinema). He has two cats, Rufus and Swann.