About Author

Jessica Hope Jordan is a visiting lecturer in nineteenth-century American literature in the English Department and the Film Studies Department at the University of California, Davis. She has been an assistant professor in English at University of the Pacific. She holds a PhD (English Literature and Film Studies) and an MA (Shakespeare) from the University of California, Davis. She earned her BAs in English and Film Studies from the University of the Pacific. She is creator and co-chair of the UC Davis Film Symposium. She has published scholarly articles on both literature and film theory, and filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese.