Rate My Professor Jennifer Wunder

Jennifer Wunder is a professor in the Literature faculty at Georgia Gwinnett College, where she served as Associate Professor of English. She earned a B.A. from Washington and Lee University and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Georgia State University. Wunder joined Georgia Gwinnett College in 2007 as Assistant Professor of English and progressed to Associate Professor. She held significant administrative positions, including Director of the Honors Program and Associate Dean. Her tenure contributed to the development of the institution as one of the newest public four-year colleges in the United States, including involvement in its accreditation process and student engagement initiatives.

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.