Jaclyn Geller, PhD

Selected Works

Moving Past Marriage: Why We Should Ditch Marital Privilege, End Relationship-Status Discrimination, and Embrace Nonmarital History

Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystique

“Pedagogy and Pizarro.” Co-authored with Edward Currie. New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 4:1 (Spring 2023).

“Sociability.” The Oxford Handbook to Samuel Johnson. Editor, Jack Lynch. Oxford University Press: 2022.

“Eighteenth-Century Satire.” The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789. General Editors, Gary Day and Jack Lynch. Wiley-Blackwell: 2015.

“The Unnarrated Life: Samuel Johnson and Women’s Writing.” Johnson Re-Visioned: Looking Before and After. Editor, Philip Smallwood. Bucknell University Press: 2001.

“A Lock Without a Key: Satiric Metaphor in Samuel Butler’s Hudibras.” 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era: 2013.

“Critical Reflections on the Push for Same-Sex Marriage.” Connecticut Review: Spring 2011.

“Domestic Life.” Samuel Johnson in Context. Editor, Jack Lynch. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

"Why the History of Marriage Matters." Singlism: What It is, Why It Matters, and How to Stop It. Editor, Bella DePaulo, PhD. DoubleDoor Books, 2011.