Glenn Jellenik

Director & Professor of English

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(501) 852-0281

Glenn Jellenik is a professor and the Director for the School of Language & Literature. His research focuses primarily on adaptation, specifically long-Eighteenth-century adaptation. His recent edited collection Adaptation Before Cinema (with Lissete Lopez Szwydky. Palgrave, 2022), explores historical approaches to adaptation before the advent of cinema. His essays, “The Origins of Adaptation, as Such: the Birth of a Simple Abstraction” (The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies), and “An Alternate Spirit of the Age: Rethinking Romanticism, Originality, and Adaptation” (The Keats-Shelley Journal, Summer 2020), examine the intersections between our contemporary cultural notions of adaptation and the Romantic period.