Jacqueline Foertsch, Ph.D. | Department of English

Jacqueline Foertsch, Ph.D.

Professor I Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta I Director of Graduate Studies
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Education:

  • Ph.D. Tulane University

  • M.A. University of Iowa

  • B.A. Augustana College (Rock Island, IL)

Jacqueline Foertsch is Professor of English and chair of the steering committee for UNT's Postwar Faculty Colloquium. She teaches and researches post-WWII American literature and culture and is the author most recently of American Drama: In Dialogue, 1714-Present (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) and Freedom's Ring: Literatures of Liberation from Civil Rights to the Second Wave (Rutgers 2021). She is at work on Chariots of Doom: Getting Around to True Crime in Postwar America.

Selected Publications

Freedom's Ring: Literatures of Liberation from Civil Rights to the Second Wave (forthcoming, Rutgers UP 2021)

"On the Road, In Cold Blood, and the End of the American Road Trip." Midwest Quarterly 60.4 (summer 2019): 390-401

American Drama: In Dialogue, 1714-Present (Palgrave Macmillan 2017).

"Cautionary Tales from the Sexual Revolution: Freedom Gained and Lost in 1970s Novels." Journal of American Culture 40.3 (2017): 1-10.

Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America (Vanderbilt 2013).

"Last Man Standing: Interracial Sex and Survival in Post-Nuclear Films, 1951-2007." Modern Language Studies 42.1 (2012): 30-49.

Bracing Accounts: The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America (Associated 2009).