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Dr. Suzanne  Jones
Dr. Suzanne Jones
Professor of English, Emerita
Profile
Grants and Fellowships
College of William and Mary Graduate Fellowship
University of Virginia Governor's Fellowship
Virginia Center for the Humanities Fellow
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Stipend
University of Richmond Research, Teaching, and Quest Grants
Awards

South Atlantic Association of Departments of English Outstanding Teacher

State Council of Higher Education for Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award
University of Richmond Distinguished Educator
Memberships
American Literature Association
European Southern Studies Forum
Modern Language Association
Phi Beta Kappa
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Publications
Books

Ed. with Mark Newman. Poverty and Progress in the U.S. South since 1920. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2006.

Race Mixing: Southern Fiction Since the Sixties.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

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.

Articles

The Divided Reception of The Help. Southern Cultures 20.1 (Spring 2014): 7-25.

“The Haitian Connection in Connie May Fowler’s 'Sugar Cage,'” Mississippi Quarterly 65.1 (Winter 2012): 81-99.

“Imagining Jefferson and Hemings in Paris,” Transatlantica : Revue d’Études Américaines, 1 (2011).

The Southern Family Farm as Endangered Species: Possibilities for Survival in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer." The Southern Literary Journal (Winter 2006). 83-97. Also published in Poverty and Progress in the U. S. South Since 1920.177-87.

Who Is a Southern Writer?American Literature (December 2006). 725-27

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). 7-30.

"The Shell Seekers and Working Women Readers' Search for Serenity." Women: A Cultural Review 10.3 (Fall 1999): 326-340.

"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." Masculinities 3.2 (Summer 1995): 43-66.

"The Miller-Matisse Connection: A Matter of Aesthetics." Journal of American Studies 21.3 (December 1987): 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.

Chapters

“Their Confederate Kinfolk, African Americans’ Interracial Family Histories.” The Oxford Handbook to the Literature of the U.S. South. Ed. Fred Hobson and Barbara Ladd. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

“Black and White.” Keywords for Southern Studies. Ed. Scott Romine and Jennifer Greeson. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016.

“The Haitian Connection and the Burden of Southern History in Connie May Fowler’s Sugar Cage.” Unsteadily Marching On: The U.S. South in Motion. Ed. Constante González Groba. València: Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2013. 203-213.

"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: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2007. 563-578.  Also published in South Atlantic Review 73.3 (Summer 2008): 44-60. 

"Childhood Trauma and its Reverberations in Bebe Moore Campbell's Your Blues Ain't Like Mine." Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination. Ed. Harriet Pollack and Christopher Mettress.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. 161-77.

"Interracial Love, Virginians' Lies, and Donald McCaig's Jacob's Ladder."  Virginia's Civil War. Ed. Peter Wallenstein and Bertram Wyatt-Brown. University of Virginia Press, 2005. 176-85.

"I'll Take My Land: Contemporary Southern Agrarians." South to a New Place. Ed. Jones and Monteith. Louisiana State University Press, 2002. 121-46.

"Race Relations." The Companion to Southern Literature. Ed. Joseph Flora and Lucinda MacKethan. Louisiana State University Press, 2002: 709-714. 

“New Narratives of Southern Manhood: Race, Masculinity, and Closure in Ernest Gaines’s Fiction.” 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." 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.'" 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." Modern Language Association Approaches to Teaching Chopin's The Awakening. Ed. Bernard Koloski. Modern Language Association, 1988: 120-125.

Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia
English
M.A., College of William and Mary
English
B.A., College of William and Mary
English
Contact Information
Areas of Expertise
Southern Literature
Literature by Women
The Novel