Biography
Jennifer Hayward is Virginia Myers Professor of English and Global Media & Digital Studies; professor of literature (2022-24) and current associate faculty of the Centro de Estudios Americanos at the Adolfo Ibåñez University, Chile. She received her Ph.D. in English literature from Princeton University and has published extensively on the digital humanities, the British in Latin America, the nineteenth-century periodical press, and serialized fiction. Her books include Consuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera (1997), and new editions of two works by travel writer Maria Graham: Journal of a Residence in Chile (2003) and Journal of a Voyage to Brazil(2011). She co-directs the Anglophone Chile Project with Michelle Prain Brice, digitizing the English-language newspapers published in 19th century Chile. The project received a Major Project Grant from the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library (2023-25). Access the .
Courses Taught
- 19th century British literature and cultural studies
- Postcolonial literature
- Travel literature
- Gender studies
Selected Publications & Presentations
Books
- Maria Graham, Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (Co-editor, with Soledad Caballero; Parlor Press, 2011)
- Maria Graham, Journal of a Residence in Chile (Editor; University Press of Virginia, 2003)
- Consuming Fictions: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soaps (University Press of Kentucky, 1997)
Articles
- Jennifer Hayward & Michelle Prain Brice (Section Eds). âThe English-Language Press in Latin America.â In Isabelle Richet and Diana Cooper-Richet (Eds.), The Edinburgh History of the Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries, 1800-1914. Forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press (2025).
- âThe entangled history of Ale-QuillĂ©n.â Co-author Michelle Prain Brice. Victorian Periodicals Review special issue, âRace and Transnationalism in Periodical Studiesâ (2023).
- ââLa nomenclatura de la botĂĄnicaâ: Maria Graham y el arte de la ciencia.â El gĂ©nero en la ciencia: actores, prĂĄcticas y polĂticas. Eds. MarĂa JosĂ© Correa and VerĂłnica RamĂrez (Editorial Universitaria de Chile, 2023).
- ââLa cuestiĂłn de la mujer ha surgido en Chileâ: la prensa britĂĄnico-chilena de ValparaĂso.â Co-author Michelle Prain Brice. Figuras de lo comĂșn: Formas y disensos en los estudios literarios. Eds. MĂłnica GonzĂĄlez et al. (EUV/ColecciĂłn DĂĄrsena Chile, 2022).
- âScottish Travel Writing.â The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature. Sheila Kidd, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, & Ken McNeil (Eds.). (Association of Scottish Literary Studies, 2022).
- âImagining the Araucanians in the Nineteenth-Century British and Chilean Press.â Co-author Michelle Prain Brice. Victorian Periodicals Review 54:3 (Fall 2021), 419-444.
- âThe Valparaiso Review: prensa victoriana en movimiento.â Co-author Michelle Prain Brice. Special issue, âEntre lenguas. Revistas, traducciones y redes,â Antonia Viu Bottini and Laura FernĂĄndez Cordero Prevost (Eds.). Universum (Talca) 36:1, 29-48 (July 2021).
- âTravellers in the Wilderness: Robert Louis Stevensonâs Transformative Travels.â Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814-1900. Benjamin Colbert and Lucy Morrison (Eds.) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): 269-297.
- ââLooking at nothing with her eyes wide openâ: Robert Cunninghame Graham and the Argentineanangelito.â In Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and His Contemporaries, eds. Carla Sassi and Silke Strohe (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2017).
- âEl MetĂĄlico Lord: Money and Mythmaking in Thomas Cochraneâs 1859 Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portuguese Domination.â In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics, eds. Dan Bivona and Marlene Tromp (Ohio University Press, 2016).
- âLatin America: Beauty, Danger, and Hyperbole.â In Routledge Companion to Travel Writing, ed. Carl Thompson (Routledge, 2015).
- Maudlin Profanity and Midnight Debauchery: Infanticide and the Angelito.â In Fear and Loathing: Victorian Xenophobia, eds. Maria Bachman, Heidi Kaufman, and Marlene Tromp (Ohio State University Press, 2013).
- ââThe Foreigner at Homeâ: The Travel Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson.â The Journal of Stevenson Studies 9 (2012).ââAn occasional trait of Scotch shrewdnessâ: Narrating nationalism in Frances CalderĂłn de la Barcaâs Life in Mexicoâ (co-authored with Soledad Caballero). Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary, ed. Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2010).
- ââAn occasional trait of Scotch shrewdnessâ: Narrating nationalism in Frances CalderĂłn de la Barcaâs Life in Mexicoâ (co-authored with Soledad Caballero). Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary, ed. Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2010).
Awards & Honors
- Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Field Development Grant (2018; with Michelle Prain Brice, Universidad CatĂłlica de ValparaĂso, and Jessie Reeder, SUNY Binghamton).
- Profesora șÚÁÏÉçante, Programa Doctorado en Literatura, Universidad CatĂłlica de ValparaĂso (August 2017 and 2018)
- Universidad AutĂłnoma de Chile Research Grant: Digitizing the Archive: Preserving the historical records of the 19th and early 20thcentury British in Chile (2017)
- Fulbright Scholar to Chile (2016-17)