Dr. Suzanne Jones
Professor of English
Chair, Department of English
308 Ryland Hall
Office: (804) 289-8307
Fax: (804) 289-8313
Teaching:
Literature of the American South
Literature by Women
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Seminars on Contemporary Literature, most recently "Race, Identity, and Community" and "Gendered Interventions and Social Change"
Education:
Ph.D. in English, University of Virginia
M.A. in English, College of William and Mary
B.A. in English, College of William and Mary
Selected Publications:
Books:
Race Mixing: Southern Fiction Since the Sixties. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Ed. with Mark Newman, Poverty and Progress in the U.S. South since 1920. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2006.
Ed. with Sharon Monteith. South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture. Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
Ed. Crossing the Color Line: Readings in Black and White. University of South Carolina Press, 2000.
Ed. Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature. Signet Classic, 2003.
Ed. Writing the Woman Artist: Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Articles:
Tragic No More?: The Reappearance of the Racially Mixed Character," American Fiction of the 1990s, ed. Jay Prosser. London: Routledge, 2008.
"Black Girl in Paris: Shay Youngblood's Escape from 'the last plantation,' " Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe, Europe in the American South, ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Richard Gray. Vienna: The Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2007.
"The Southern Family Farm as Endangered Species: Possibilities for Survival in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer," The Southern Literary Journal,Winter 2006; also in Poverty and Progress in the U. S. South Since 1920.
"Childhood Trauma and its Reverberations in Bebe Moore Campbell's Your Blues Ain't Like Mine," in Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination, ed. Harriet Pollack and Christopher Mettress. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
"Who Is a Southern Writer?" American Literature, December 2006.
"Interracial Love, Virginians' Lies, and Donald McCaig's Jacob's Ladder," Virginia's Civil War, edited by Peter Wallenstein and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Virginia Press, 2005.
"The 'beyondness of things' in The Buccaneers: Vernon Lee's Influence on Edith Wharton's Sense of Places," Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, 8.1 (2004).
"I'll Take My Land: Contemporary Southern Agrarians" in South to a New Place, ed. Jones and Monteith, Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
"Race Relations," The Companion to Southern Literature, ed. Joseph Flora and Lucinda MacKethan, Louisiana State University Press, 2002. 709-714.
"The Shell Seekers and Working Women Readers' Search for Serenity," Women: A Cultural Review, 10.3 (Fall 1999): 326-340.
"Refighting Old Wars: Race Relations and Masculine Conventions in Fiction by Larry Brown and Madison Smartt Bell" in The Present State of Mind: Southern Identity in the 1990s, ed. Jan Nordby Gretlund, University of South Carolina Press, 1999. 107-120.
"Edith Wharton's "Secret Sensitiveness," The Decoration of Houses, and Her Fiction," Journal of Modern Literature, 21.2 (Winter 1997): 175-196.
"Reconstructing Manhood: Race, Masculinity, and Narrative Closure in Ernest Gaines's A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying" in The World Is Our Home: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing, ed. Jeffrey Folks, University of Kentucky Press, 2000. 29-52
"Dismantling Stereotypes: Interracial Friendships in Meridian and A Mother and Two Daughters" in The Female Tradition in Southern Literature: Essays on Southern Women Writers, ed. Carol Manning University of Illinois Press, 1993, 140-157; and in Contemporary Literary Criticism, GaleNet, 2000.
"Reading the Endings in Katherine Anne Porter's 'Old Mortality'" in Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure, ed. Alison Booth, University Press of Virginia, 1993, 280-299, and in Critical Essays on American Literature: Katherine Anne Porter, ed. Darlene Harbour Unrue, New York: G. K. Hall, 1997.
Foreword to George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes (1879), University of Georgia Press, 1988. v-xv.
"Two Settings, The Islands and the City" in Modern Language Association Approaches to Teaching Chopin's The Awakening, ed. Bernard Koloski, Modern Language Association, 1988. 120-125.
"The Miller-Matisse Connection: A Matter of Aesthetics," Journal of American Studies, 21.3 (December1987): 411-415.
"City Folks in Hoot Owl Holler: Narrative Strategy in Lee Smith's Oral History," The Southern Literary Journal, 20.1 (Fall 1987): 101-212.
"Place, Perception, and Identity in The Awakening," The Southern Quarterly, 25.2 (Winter 1987): 108-119.
"Absalom, Absalom! and the Custom of Storytelling: A Reflection of Southern Social and Literary History," Southern Studies, 29.1 (Spring 1985): 82-112.
"Nicole's Gardens," Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual 1978, ed. Matthew Bruccoli and Richard Layman, Gale Research Company, 1979. 85-95.
Awards:
Virginia Center for the Humanities Fellow
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Stipend
South Atlantic Association of Departments of English Outstanding Teacher
Virginia State Council of Higher Education Outstanding Faculty Award
University of Richmond Distinguished Educator
University of Richmond Research, Teaching, and Quest Grants
University of Virginia Governor's Fellowship
College of William and Mary Graduate Fellowship
Phi Beta Kappa