Jessica Gray, Ph.D.

smiling, middle-aged, femme-presenting white woman with neutral background

Position Title
Lecturer

she/they
Voorhies 181
Office Hours
During the construction I'll be holding virtual drop-in office hours via Zoom, W 11-1, or by appointment. I'm available for in-person office hours by request, and I'll hold blocks of in-person consultations by appointment toward the end of the quarter.
Education and Degree(s)
  • Ph.D., English, Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies, UC Davis (2022)
  • M.A., English Literature, Wright State University (2014)
  • B.A., English, University of North Florida (2009)
Courses
  • English Grammar (ENL 106 / LIN 106 / UWP 106), Major grammatical structures of English
  • Topics in Literature (ENL 149), “Witches, Virgins, Mothers, and Other Assorted Monsters”
  • Topics in 16th- and 17th-Century Literature (ENL 115), “Early Modern Ways of Knowing”
  • Topics in 18th-Century Literature (ENL 123), “Wild and Wayward Women”
  • Introductory Topics in Literature (ENL 40), “Liberty”
  • Literatures in English I: Anglo-Saxon to 1700 (ENL 10A), “Authorship and Authority”
  • Introduction to Literature (ENL 3) Literary analysis, analytical writing
  • Writers’ Workshop (ENL 3A) Academic literacies; analytical writing support
  • Business Writing (UWP 104A), Principles of Writing for Business Contexts
  • Advanced Composition (UWP 101 / 101Y), Writing for Academic and Professional Contexts
  • Introduction to Academic Literacies (UWP 1 / 1Y) Rhetorical analysis, analytical writing
  • Chaucer, “Troilus” & Minor Poems (ENL 113A) – Teaching Assistant; Section Instructor
  • Eighteenth-Century Literature (ENL 123) – Teaching Assistant; Section Instructor
  • Writing Science (ENL 164 / STS 164) – Teaching Assistant
  • Medieval Studies: The Early Middle Ages (MST 20A) – Teaching Assistant
  • History of Science: The Scientific Revolution (HIS 136) – Reader
  • Topics in 16th- and 17th-Century Literature (ENL 115), “Alchemy” – Reader
  • Writing in the Health Sciences (UWP 104F) – Reader
Research Interests & Expertise
  • Early modern literature and science; reproduction and childbirth; intellectual history; gender and sexuality.
Publications
  • “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Commonplace Book.” Jessica Gray & Bethany E. Qualls. Keats-Shelley Journal+, edited by Kacie L. Wills and Olivia Loksing Moy. September, 2024.
  • “Foreign Relations: Utopian Fictions and the Birth of Scientific Citizenship.” Cultures of Twenty-First Century Citizenship, edited by M. Banerjee and V. Evans. Transcript, 2023.
  • “An Impossible Ideal: Motherhood in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Criticism 58.3 (2017).