Associate Professor
of English
Edgar Allan Poe
Summer 2008
Office Hours:
I am not teaching courses during the Summer sessions, and I will not be holding regular office hours. Please email me if you need to set up an appointment to meet with me.
Contact Information:
Office: Ellis 315
Office phone: (740) 593-9868
E-mail: jonesp2@ohio.edu
E.D.E.N. Southworth
Frederick Douglass
Both my teaching and my research are focused primarily on American Literature. I have taught a number of American literature courses at Ohio University and other institutions. For a complete list of my past courses, see my vita. Here are some of the courses I am tentatively scheduled to offer during the 2008-2009 academic year:
- English 253: Survey of American Literature (Spring 2009)
- English 254: Writing and Research in English Studies (Winter 2009)
- English 398T/477T: Honors Tutorial in American Literature (Fall 2008)
- English 530/730: Graduate Seminar in American Literature to 1876 (Winter 2009)
The bulk of my academic writing has focused on the work of nineteenth-century American writers, but I've also written about twentieth-century and contemporary writers. Authors who have been the subject of my work include both well-known and obscure writers --such as Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, E.D.E.N. Southworth, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Gilmore Simms, Evelyn Scott, Anne Tyler, Ellen Glasgow, Michael Cunningham, and Ellen Gilchrist. My book Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South was published in 2005 and was awarded the Nancy Dasher Award by the College English Association of Ohio. You can also see my vita for a complete list of my publications, presentations, and professional activities.
I also serve as the secretary/treasurer for The Poe Studies Association, an international organization devoted to the study of the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe.
I am also faculty advisor of our department's chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the national English honor society.