Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

Professional Bio

Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor received her PhD at Yale University. She specializes in utopian literature and theory from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, and is currently the Editor of Utopian Studies: The Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies. She has published two monographs (including Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions [Cambridge]) and three edited collections, the most recent of which is The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures (2022). She has contributed book chapters to Life in Plastic: Artistic Responses to Petromodernity (ed. Caren Irr; Minnesota, 2021), and to The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945 (ed. Sheryl Vint; Cambridge, 2024). She has published dozens of articles, in Feminist Studies, Utopian Studies, Contemporary Women's Writing, Nineteenth-Century Literature, The Journal for French and Francophone Philosophy, and others. Forthcoming is an essay on "the Plastic-Bag Theory of Fiction" forthcoming in a special issue of The University of Toronto Quarterly (2025) on "the Plastic Humanities," edited by Ranjan Ghosh.