Jaime Harker
Assistant Professor of English

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• 1998 Ph.D., English, Women's Studies Certificate, Temple University
• 1993 M.A., English, Brigham Young University
• 1989 B.A., English, summa cum laude, Brigham Young University

• Pacific Rim literature and culture
• American cultural studies
• Gender theory and criticism
• Gay and lesbian studies
• Nineteenth and twentieth-century American Literature
• Writing across the curriculum

Selected publications:

• "America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship Between the Wars." Forthcoming, 2007. University of Massachusetts Press.
• "Progressive Middlebrow: Dorothy Canfield, Women's Magazines, and Popular Feminism in the Twenties." Lisa Botshon and Meridith Goldsmith, editors, Middlebrow Moderns. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2003.
• "'You'll Never Write In this Town Again': Standards and K-16 Collaboration." Robyn Cations, editor, English Teachers At Work. Australian Association for the Teaching of English, 2003.
• "'Pious Cant' and Blasphemy: Fanny's Fern's Radicalized Sentiment." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 18.1 (2001): 52-64.
• "Romance Novels, Popular." George T. Kurian, Miles Orvell, Johnnella E. Butler, and Jay Nechling, editors, Encyclopedia of American Studies, Volume 4. New York: Grolier Educational, 2001. 56-58.
• "Modernists Passing the Buck: 'Orientals,' Middlebrows, and The Good Earth." Precursors and Aftermaths 1.1 (Spring 2000): 5-26.
• "Contemporary Japanese Fiction and 'Middlebrow' Translation Strategies: The Case of Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen." The Translator 5.1 (April 1999): 27-44.