Dr. Jellenik
BT天堂English and all of our friends in the celebrate Dr. Glenn Jellenik, associate professor of English at UCA, who continues to emerge as a major scholar of Adaptation Studies.
Adaptation Studies is one of the most exciting areas of interdisciplinary inquiry within the humanities today. Earlier this month, , in its Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture Series, published Jellenik’s “Adaptation Before Cinema: Literary and Visual Convergence from Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century.” You can learn all about the book here: .
Dr. Jellenik co-edited this book with Dr. Lissette Lopez Szwydky of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. The collection curates a set of scholarly conversations that center an historical approach to Adaptation Studies. In so doing, the book decenters a still-dominant film/novel binary. Likewise, the book鈥檚 chapters examine adaptation as an act that long-predates the advent of cinema.
In addition to editing the book鈥檚 13 chapters, Dr. Jellenik contributed two chapters to the collection: 鈥淚ntroduction: Adaptation鈥檚 Past, Adaptation鈥檚 Future,鈥� which lays out and contextualizes the book鈥檚 approach, and 鈥淎daptation as the Art Form of Democracy: Romanticism and the Rise of Novelization,鈥� which looks at the ways that both William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft novelized their democratic philosophy in order to reach a wider audience.
In addition, Dr. Jellenik will publish essays in two edited collections in adaptation studies next month — one called, “Adapting the Monstrous Other: del Toro Re-Shapes ‘The Creature from the Black Lagoon’ in The Eternal Future of the 1950s,” and the other, “Bowdlerizing for Dollars, or Adaptation as Political Containment.” Finally, his article, 鈥淎daptive Entropy: The Victorian Birth of Caliban,” recently was accepted for publication in the Summer 2023 issue of The South Atlantic Review.
