Jared Gardner
· Joseph V Denney Designated Professor of English; Secretary of the University SenateOhio State University · English
Active 1873–2023
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About
Jared Gardner is the Joseph V Denney Designated Professor of English at The Ohio State University and serves as the Secretary of the University Senate. He has been a faculty member in the Department of English since 1999, where he teaches a range of subjects including American literature, film, popular culture, comics, environmental humanities, medical humanities, and science fiction. Gardner's academic background includes a PhD from Johns Hopkins University obtained in 1994 and a BA from Amherst College in 1987. His research interests encompass comics studies, periodical studies, American film history, popular culture history, print and media history, medical humanities, and environmental humanities. Gardner is a frequent collaborator with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, contributing as a curator to several exhibitions such as Drawing Blood: Comic & Medicine and Powerlines: Comics & the Environment. His scholarly work includes editing critical editions and authoring books on topics related to American magazine culture, storytelling, race and American literature, and comics. Gardner's contributions to the fields of media, culture, and literature are recognized through his academic appointments and collaborative projects.
Research topics
- Sociology
- Art
- Literature
- Computer Science
- History
- Visual arts
- Aesthetics
- Archaeology
- Business
- Ancient history
Selected publications
Stanford University Press eBooks · 2020 · 96 citations
1st authorCorrespondingAntebellum Popular Serialities and the Transatlantic Birth of “American” Comics
Ohio State University Press eBooks · 2017-05-05 · 46 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingA History of the Narrative Comic Strip
2013-06-17 · 44 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingUniversity Press of Mississippi eBooks · 2015-08-01 · 7 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingOxford University Press eBooks · 2014-02-14 · 5 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThis chapter focuses on the publication of American novels as serial fiction in magazines, newspapers, and story-papers from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. After providing a background on the history of serial novels, the chapter looks at examples of canonical novels that began as serials in periodicals, including Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, William Dean Howells's A Modern Instance, Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, and Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of Pointed Firs.…
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