Jenna Sciuto (PhD ’14) Announces Book on Policing Intimacy

Jenna Grace Sciuto (PhD ’14) has announced the upcoming release of her book, Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature, set to be published next year by the University Press of Mississippi. The book is a revision of her dissertation, entitled, “Postcolonial palimpsets: Fragmented subjectivities, sexual violence, and colonial inheritance in Tierno Monénembo, Marie Vieux-Chauvet, and William Faulkner.” Sciuto defended her dissertation on April 17, 2014 under the co-direction of Professors Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and Nicole Aljoe. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.