Jared Gardner has been a professor in the Department since 1999, teaching American literature, film, popular culture, comics, environmental humanities, medical humanities, and science fiction. He is currently dividing his time between English and the University Senate, where he serves as Secretary. Prof. Gardner is a frequent collaborator with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, where he has worked as a curator on several exhibitions, including, most recently, Drawing Blood: Comic & Medicine and, with Elizabeth Hewitt, Powerlines: Comics & the Environment. 

Selected Publications

• Will Eisner's A Contract with God and Other Stories of Dropsie Avenue: A Nortion Critical Edition. Jared Gardner, ed. W.W. Norton, 2022.
• Projections Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2012.
• The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2012.
• Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.