Paul C. Jones
Associate Professor
American Literature
Office: Ellis 351
Office Phone: 593-9868
Email: jonesp2@ohio.edu
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Degrees
Ph.D., University of Tennessee
M.A., University of Arkansas
B.A., University of Arkansas
Publications
Books:
• Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South, U of Tennessee P, 2005.
• Evelyn Scott: Recovering a Lost Modernist, edited with Dorothy Scura, U of Tennessee P, 2001.
Selected Articles:
• “‘That I could look . . . on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning’: Walt Whitman’s Anti-Gallows Writing and the Appeal to Christian Sympathy,” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 27 (Fall 2009): 1-27.
• “Trust Thyself?: Teaching Poe’s Murder Tales in the Context of Transcendental Self-Reliance,” Approaches to Teaching Poe’s Prose and Poetry, MLA, 2009. 154-60.
• “‘I put my fingers around my throat and squeezed it, to know how it feels’: Anti-Gallows Sentimentalism and E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand,” Legacy (2008): 41-61.
• “The Politics of Poetry: The Democratic Review and the Gallows Verse of William Wordsworth and John Greenleaf Whittier,” American Periodicals 17 (2007): 1-25.
• “Recovering Southern Identity in Evelyn Scott’s Migrations and Escapade,” Mississippi Quarterly 59.4 (2006): 557-75.
• “Burning Mrs. Southworth: True Womanhood and the Intertext of Ellen Glasgow’s Virginia,” Southern Literary Journal 37 (2004): 25-40.
• “A Re-Awakening: Anne Tyler’s Post-Feminist Edna Pontellier in Ladder of Years,” Critique 44 (2003): 25-40; reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 205, Thomson Gale, 2005. 319-26.
• “William Gilmore Simms’s Last Word on Slavery: The Racial Politics of ‘Bald-Head Bill Bauldy’ and ‘The Humours of the Manager,’” Southern Quarterly 41 (2003): 110-18.
• “The Danger of Sympathy: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Hop-Frog’ and the Abolitionist Rhetoric of Pathos,” Journal of American Studies 35 (2001): 239-54.
• “‘This Dainty Woman’s Hand...Red with Blood’: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand as Abolitionist Narrative,” ATQ 15 (2001): 59-80.
• “Copying What the Master Had Written: Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave and the Southern Historical Romance,” Southern Quarterly 38 (2000):78-92.
Curriculum Vitae
Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South was awarded the Nancy Dasher Prize for Literary Scholarship by the College English Association of Ohio in 2008.
Kate and Hall Peterson Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society, April 2008
Secretary/Treasurer, Poe Studies Association, 2006-Present
Courses
English 250: Introduction to Textual Analysis
English 253: American Literature Survey
English 254: Writing and Research in English Studies
English 307J: Writing and Research in English Studies
English 321: American Literature to 1865
English 322: American Literature, 1865-1918
English 323: American Literature, 1918 to the Present
English 327: African American Fiction
English 460: American Women Writers in the 19th Century
English 460: America's Literature of Fear: The Gothic Tradition in the U.S.
English 465: Major American Authors--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Graduate Courses: Topics have included the American Gothic, American Romanticism, and Sympathy in Nineteenth Century American Literature