Jessica Martell

Prior to joining the faculty at ASU, Jessica Martell was an Assistant Professor of English at Lincoln Memorial University and an instructor at UNC Chapel Hill, where she earned the Earl Hartsell Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Fellowships in British archives supported her doctoral research on the impact of industrial food systems on the emergence of literary modernisms in Britain and Ireland. This work forms the foundation of her book, From Farm to Form: Modernism, Ecology, and the Food Politics of Empire, forthcoming from the University of Nevada Press.

She is also the co-editor of Modernism and Food Studies: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Avant-Garde (University Press of Florida, 2019), and her other essays have appeared in ten scholarly books and journals.

Dr. Martell’s teaching interests include British, Irish, American, and world literatures, as well as the environmental humanities and food studies.

An avid gardener and chicken wrangler, she serves on the Executive Board of Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture, a Boone-based nonprofit dedicated to building a more equitable and sustainable food system in North Carolina’s High Country.