Biography

Dr. Jennifer Ross is the interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellow for the Failure: Learning in Progress (FLiP) project. Her research centers on contemporary American literature, digital humanities, literary and cultural theory, and critical disaster and terrorism studies. Her manuscript, “Insurgents on the Bayou: Hurricane Katrina, Counterterrorism, and Literary Dissent on America’s Gulf Coast,” explores forms of political resistance put forward in literature and film produced after the flooding of New Orleans in 2005. New research examines the proliferation of wartime counterterror tactics in domestic U.S. governance and policing. In 2020-2021, Jennifer was awarded the JHI/CLIR Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, and she continues to work with the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative as the conference coordinator. Her research can be found in the volumes Liberal Disorder: Emergency Politics, Populist Uprisings, and Digital Dictatorships (Routledge 2020) and Transnational Spaces: Intersections of Cultures, Languages, and Peoples (Vernon Press 2021).