Degrees
- B.A., Wesleyan
- M.A., San Francisco State
- Ph.D., Princeton
Jennifer Hayward is Virginia Myers Professor of English and Global Media & Digital Studies; professor of literature (2022-24) and current associate faculty of the Centro de Estudios Americanos at the Adolfo Ib谩帽ez University, Chile. She received her Ph.D. in English literature from Princeton University and has published extensively on the digital humanities, the British in Latin America, the nineteenth-century periodical press, and serialized fiction. Her books includeConsuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera(1997), and new editions of two works by travel writer Maria Graham:Journal of a Residence in Chile(2003) andJournal of a Voyage to Brazil(2011). She co-directs the Anglophone Chile Project with Michelle Prain Brice, digitizing the English-language newspapers published in 19th century Chile. The project received a Major Project Grant from the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library (2023-25). Access the .
- 19th century British literature and cultural studies
- Postcolonial literature
- Travel literature
- Gender studies
Books
- Maria Graham, Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (Co-editor, with Soledad Caballero; Parlor Press, 2011)
- Maria Graham, Journal of a Residence in Chile (Editor; University Press of Virginia, 2003)
- Consuming Fictions: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soaps (University Press of Kentucky, 1997)
Articles
- Jennifer Hayward & Michelle Prain Brice (Section Eds). 淭he English-Language Press in Latin America. In Isabelle Richet and Diana Cooper-Richet (Eds.),The Edinburgh History of the Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries, 1800-1914. Forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press (2025).
- 淭he entangled history of Ale-Quill茅n. Co-author Michelle Prain Brice.Victorian Periodicals Reviewspecial issue, 淩ace and Transnationalism in Periodical Studies (2023).
- 湗La nomenclatura de la bot谩nica: Maria Graham y el arte de la ciencia.El g茅nero en la ciencia: actores, pr谩cticas y pol铆ticas. Eds. Mar铆a Jos茅 Correa and Ver贸nica Ram铆rez (Editorial Universitaria de Chile, 2023).
- 湗La cuesti贸n de la mujer ha surgido en Chile: la prensa brit谩nico-chilena de Valpara铆so. Co-author Michelle Prain Brice.Figuras de lo com煤n: Formas ydisensos en los estudios literarios.Eds. M贸nica Gonz谩lez et al. (EUV/Colecci贸n D谩rsena Chile, 2022).
- 淪cottish Travel Writing.The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature. Sheila Kidd, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, & Ken McNeil (Eds.). (Association of Scottish Literary Studies, 2022).
- 淚magining the Araucanians in the Nineteenth-Century British and Chilean Press. Co-authorMichelle Prain Brice.Victorian Periodicals Review54:3 (Fall 2021), 419-444.
- The Valparaiso Review: prensa victoriana en movimiento. Co-author Michelle Prain Brice. Special issue, “Entre lenguas. Revistas, traducciones y redes, Antonia Viu Bottini and Laura Fern谩ndez Cordero Prevost (Eds.).Universum(Talca) 36:1, 29-48 (July 2021).
- 淭ravellers in the Wilderness: Robert Louis Stevenson檚 Transformative Travels.Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814-1900. Benjamin Colbert and Lucy Morrison(Eds.)(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): 269-297.
- “楲ooking at nothing with her eyes wide open: Robert Cunninghame Graham and the Argentineanangelito.” In Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and His Contemporaries, eds. Carla Sassi and Silke Strohe (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2017).
- 淓l Met谩lico Lord: Money and Mythmaking in Thomas Cochrane檚 1859 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portuguese Domination. In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics, eds. Dan Bivona and Marlene Tromp (Ohio University Press, 2016).
- “Latin America: Beauty, Danger, and Hyperbole.” In Routledge Companion to Travel Writing, ed. Carl Thompson (Routledge, 2015).
- Maudlin Profanity and Midnight Debauchery: Infanticide and the Angelito.” In Fear and Loathing: Victorian Xenophobia, eds. Maria Bachman, Heidi Kaufman, and Marlene Tromp (Ohio State University Press, 2013).
- 湗The Foreigner at Home: The Travel Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson. The Journal of Stevenson Studies 9 (2012).’An occasional trait of Scotch shrewdness: Narrating nationalism in Frances Calder贸n de la Barca檚 Life in Mexico (co-authored with Soledad Caballero). Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary, ed. Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2010).
- ’An occasional trait of Scotch shrewdness: Narrating nationalism in Frances Calder贸n de la Barca檚 Life in Mexico (co-authored with Soledad Caballero). Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary, ed. Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2010).
- Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Field Development Grant (2018; with Michelle Prain Brice, Universidad Cat贸lica de Valpara铆so, and Jessie Reeder, SUNY Binghamton).
- Profesora Visitante, Programa Doctorado en Literatura, Universidad Cat贸lica de Valpara铆so (August 2017 and 2018)
- Universidad Aut贸noma de Chile Research Grant: Digitizing the Archive: Preserving the historical records of the 19th and early 20th century British in Chile (2017)
- Fulbright Scholar to Chile (2016-17)