Rate My Professor Jennifer Wunder

Wunder's academic interests center on the literary, cultural, and political influences of secret societies such as Freemasons and Rosicrucians on nineteenth-century Romantic poetry, with a particular focus on John Keats. Her major publication is the book Keats, Hermeticism, and the Secret Societies (Ashgate, 2008), which examines historical hermeticism, initiation rites, hieroglyphics, and their manifestations in Keats's works, including the Endymion letters. Related chapters include "Historical Hermeticism and the Secret Societies," "Hermeticism in the Endymion Letters," "Hieroglyphics," "Trials of Water and Air," "Initiation Rites and Trials of Earth," and "The Secret Societies and the Romantic Cultural Context" (2016). She co-authored "PALs: Fostering Student Engagement and Interactive Learning" (2010), describing peer-assisted learning programs at Georgia Gwinnett College. With 9 publications and 19 citations, her scholarship has influenced studies in Romanticism. Wunder taught undergraduate courses in composition, creative writing, and literature, presented papers on Keats at conferences, and participated in the PALs steering committee and honors education efforts.