Jenna Grace Sciuto

Jenna Grace Sciuto is a Professor of English at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She received her BA from Brown University, MA from Boston University, and PhD from Northeastern University. Her first two books—Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures (University Press of Mississippi or UPM, 2025) and Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature (UPM, 2021)—focus on colonialism’s lingering impacts on identity, intimacy, and family dynamics across Icelandic, U.S. Southern, and Caribbean literatures, respectively. Her work has also appeared in ARIEL, the Faulkner Journal, the Global South, and the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, as well as the collections Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas (University Press of Mississippi, 2016), Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South (Louisiana State University Press, 2020), and The New William Faulkner Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2022).