Jane A. Juffer
Associate Professor
Graduate Faculty Member
- Degrees
- University of Illinois at Urbana
Ph.D., English - Loyola University of Chicago
M.A, English - Drake University
B.A., journalism
Bio
Jane Juffer comes to Cornell from Pennsylvania State University, where she was an assistant and then associate professor in the English department and director of the Latino/a Studies Initiative. She has written two books, both published by New York University Press: At Home with Pornography: Women, Sex, and Everyday Life and Single Mother: The Emergence of the Domestic Intellectual. Her scholarship also includes articles on Latino studies at the corporate university, the U.S.-Mexico border, migration, and domesticity. Her current research project examines how religion is shaping Latino/Latin American migration in the U.S., focusing on communities in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic and taking an ethnographic approach. She teaches classes in cultural studies, Latino studies, and feminist theory and has a joint appointment with the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Cultural studies
- Latino/a studies
- Feminist theory
- Ethnography
- Religion
Current Projects
- Religion and Latino/a migration