My current research and teaching is concentrated in the area of literature and the environment, with a particular focus on Canadian, American, and Indigenous literatures. I am currently working on a project titled Points of Entry: Ecocritical Investigations Along the Canada-US Border, that examines cultural portrayals of environmental phenomena that cross the Canada-US border. I am also interested in literature's intersection with problems of infrastructure and resource extraction in the 20th and 21st centuries.

• WLU Early Career Researcher Award (2020)
• SSHRC Insight Grant (2019) for Points of Entry: Ecocritical Investigations Along the Canada-US Border
• Runner-up, Ernest Redekop Prize for Best Essay in the Canadian Review of American Studies in the Previous Year (2018)
• Finalist, Gabrielle Roy Prize (for a work of Canadian literary criticism in English published the previous year). (2011).
• SSHRC Insight Development Grant for Fences and Flows project. (2011).

I am keen to work with students researching any aspect of literature and the environment, though my particular strengths lean towards Canadian and American literatures. I further welcome opportunities to work with students interested more generally in projects in Canadian Literature, border studies and Indigenous literatures and cultures.

• Kerber, Jenny. "Tracing One Warm Line: Climate Stories and Silences in Northwest Passage Tourism." Journal of Canadian Studies 55.4 (July 2022): 271-303.
• Kerber, Jenny and Cheryl Lousley. "Literary Responses to Indigenous Climate Justice and the Canadian Settler-State." The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate, eds. Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultzbach. Cambridge UP, 2022. 269-279.
• Kerber, Jenny. “Corrosive Aesthetics: On the Receiving End of Oil and Gas in Who By Fire.” Canadian Literature 239 (2019): 50-65.
• Kerber, Jenny. "Romantic Ramblings, Revisited: Eco-Logics of Mobility in Sina Queyra's Expressway." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 25.2 (2018): 345-62.
• Kerber, Jenny. "Up from the Ground: Living with/in Petrocultures in the US and Canadian Wests." Western American Literature 51.4 (2017): 383-89.
• Kerber, Jenny. “Border Insecurity: Reading the Transnational Environment in Jim Lynch’s Border Songs.” Canadian Review of American Studies 47.1 (2017): 131-60.
• Kerber, Jenny. “Caribou, Petroleum, and the Limits of Locality in the Canada-US Borderlands.” American Review of Canadian Studies 45.3 (2015): 332-45.
• Kerber, Jenny. “‘You are Turning Into a Hive Mind’: Storytelling, Ecological Thought, and the Problem of Form in Generation A.” Studies in Canadian Literature 39.1 (2014): 317-38.
• Kerber, Jenny. “Nature Trafficking: Writing and Environment in the Western Canada-US Borderlands.” Greening the Maple: Canadian Ecocriticism in Context. (2013).