Jessica DeMarco-Jacobson

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MA Student

Jessica DeMarco-Jacobson (she/her) is an MA student who researches 19th-century women writers' involvement in the Risorgimento, the Italian unification movement. She hopes to one day return to Italy–or "the Mother Country," as Christina Rossetti called it–and spend the rest of her days whimsically writing about the human condition.

Education:

Middlebury Language Schools - Summer 2023

Level 1.5: Advanced Beginning Italian 7-Week Immersion Program

 

Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford - Oct. 2021 - June 2022

Visiting Non-Matriculated Student

 

Columbus State University - Aug. 2018 - Aug. 2022

BA in English Literature, minor in History, certificate in Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Honors Thesis: “Mine Own Country:” Christina Rossetti and the Italian Risorgimento

Honors: Summa cum laude

Research Interests:

19th-century British literature, Victorian literature, women writers, Gothic fiction, English Romanticism, the Risorgimento, early modern Italian history

Grants:

Georgia Writers Association LGBTQIA+ Literary Success Grant, fiction category

Selected Publications:

Contact Information

jd40239@uga.edu

Other Information

Curriculum Vitae: Jessica DMJ CV Sept 2024.pdf (152.33 KB)
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