Dr. Suzanne Jones
Professor of English
Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities
Chair, Department of English
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. Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature. Signet Classic, 2003.
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. Writing the Woman Artist: Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Articles
“Imagining Jefferson and Hemings in Paris,” Transatlantica : Revue d’Études Américaines, 1 (2011), http://transatlantica.revues.org/5391.
"Writing Southern Race Relations: Stories Ellen Douglas Was Brave Enough to Tell." The Southern Quarterly 47.2 (Winter 2010): 24-38.
"The Southern Family Farm as Endangered Species: Possibilities for Survival in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer." The Southern Literary Journal (Winter 2006). Also published in Poverty and Progress in the U. S. South Since 1920.
"Who Is a Southern Writer?" American Literature (December 2006).
"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).
"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.
"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
"The Obama Effect on American Discourse about Racial Identity: Dreams from My Father (and Mother), Barack Obama's Search for Self." The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign. Ed. Heather E. Harris, Kimberly R. Moffitt, Catherine E. Squires. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. 131-152.
"Tragic No More?: The Reappearance of the Racially Mixed Character." American Fiction of the 1990s. Ed. Jay Prosser. London: Routledge, 2008. 89-103.
"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.
"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.
"I'll Take My Land: Contemporary Southern Agrarians." 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.
"Reconstructing Manhood: Race, Masculinity, and Narrative Closure in Ernest Gaines's A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying." 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.
"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.
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
English
M.A., College of William and Mary
English
English
B.A., College of William and Mary
English
English
Areas of Expertise
Southern Literature Literature by Women
The Novel