Education
PhD, Comparative Literature, Emory University
MA, Comparative Literature, University of Georgia
BA, English, Emory University
Dr. Jennifer Ballengee, PhD
Professor and Chair - Languages, Literatures & Cultures
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Areas of Expertise
Literary Theory
Mythology
Rhetoric
Ancient Greek
Cultural Studies
Biography
Jennifer Ballengee is the chair of the Languages, Literatures, and Culture Department at Towson University and the author of The Wound and the Witness: The Rhetoric of Torture (SUNY 2009). Her publications address questions of the body, politics, rhetoric, and representation. She is currently finishing a monograph on ruins, tragedy, and national ideology. She teaches courses in literary theory, mythology, rhetoric, Ancient Greek, and cultural studies.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
The Wound and the Witness: The Rhetoric of Torture. SUNY Press, 2009.
Trauma and Literature in an Age of Globalization (Routledge 2021).
Recent Articles:
"Art and Politics: Prometheus Bound and the Delphic Festivals," The Classical World. 118.1 (2025).
"Phantom Work: Refugees, Antigone, Comparative Literature," in Trauma and Literature in an Age of Globalization (London: Routledge Press, 2021).
"Public Humanities and Crossing Boarders," Post 45 (Yale University Press), Summer 2019.