Emily Jones

Associate Professor

CONTACT

Office: CPR 315
Phone: 813-974-9546
Email

BIO

Emily Griffiths Jones鈥� research and teaching specializes in the literature of early modern England, with emphasis on Milton, Shakespeare, and women writers. Her first book, Right Romance: Heroic Subjectivity and Elect Community in Seventeenth-Century England, deals with intersections between genre, religion, and politics. The book argues for a recontextualized understanding of romance鈥攁s a multi-generic narrative structure or strategy rather than a prose genre, and as a cherished mode for Puritan republicans as well as royalists鈥攁nd shows how English men and women turned to romance to construct diverse ideological communities for themselves as the chosen heroes of their nation鈥檚 turbulent history. Throughout her scholarship, Dr. Jones traces a vibrant literary tradition for anti-royalist writing in the period surrounding the English Civil War, and she explores early modern readers鈥� and writers鈥� passionate, playful, and queer emotional investments in texts. Her next book project is on 鈥淓arly Modern Fandom鈥�: the rise of affective attachment to and identification with literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

FOR PROSPECTIVE GRAD STUDENTS

Dr. Jones is committed to fostering students鈥� individual interests in early modern literature and genre studies. She has worked with graduate students on a diverse range of projects, including stylometric digital analysis of early modern dramatic genres, deathbed struggles in reformation-era texts, the politics of gender differentiation in Milton鈥檚 Paradise Lost, Shakespearean adaptation (in graphic novels, in Asian film, and in rock music), romance as ecofeminist genre in Disney鈥檚 Moana, and archival excavation of women playwrights. M.A. or Ph.D. students interested in working with Dr. Jones should begin by scheduling an in-person or virtual meeting to discuss their interests and goals.

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. and M.A., Boston University
  • B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman's College

AREA OF SPECIALTY

Early modern literature, Milton, Shakespeare, women writers, romance and epic, gender and genre, biblical poetics, literature and seventeenth-century politics

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Right Romance: Heroic Subjectivity and Elect Community in Seventeenth-Century England. Penn State University Press, 2019.

  • 鈥淢ilton, Cavendish, and the Playful Politics of Authorial Self-Insertion.鈥� For a collection on interconnections between John Milton and Margaret Cavendish, edited by Ann Baynes Coiro, Lara Dodds, and Lisa Walters. Forthcoming.

  • 鈥溾�楳atching with the accurs猫d Canaanites鈥�: Lucy Hutchinson鈥檚 Foreign Queens, Religious Exogamy, and Race-Making.鈥� For a collection on 鈥淩ace/Queer/Queens,鈥� edited by Mira Assaf Kafantaris and Urvashi Chakravarty, in Palgrave鈥檚 Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Forthcoming.

  • 鈥淩epublican Women Writers.鈥� In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women鈥檚 Writing, edited by Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith. Forthcoming from Palgrave.

  • 鈥淧assive Obedience and the Problem of Tyranny in Rivall Friendship.鈥� For a proposed essay collection on Bridget Manningham鈥檚 Rivall Friendship, edited by Jean Brink. Forthcoming.

  • 鈥淚ntimate Creations: Margaret Cavendish and the Violent Desires of Fandom.鈥� Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 21.3 (2021).

  • 鈥淣ot sparing Kings in what they did not right鈥�: Aemilia Lanyer鈥檚 Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum and the King James Bible.鈥� In Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace, edited by Kristin Bezio and Scott Oldenburg. Routledge, 2021.

  • 鈥淕lobal Performance and Local Reception: Teaching Hamlet and More in Singapore.鈥� In Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare, edited by Wendy Beth Hyman and Hillary Eklund. Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

  • 鈥淗ereditary Succession and Death in Thomas Dekker鈥檚 The Wonderful Year and Thomas Middleton鈥檚 The Revenger鈥檚 Tragedy.鈥� SEL 56.2 (2016).

  •  鈥淏eloved of All the Trades in Rome: Oeconomics, Occupation, and the Gendered Body in Coriolanus,鈥� Shakespeare Studies 43 (2015).

  • 鈥溾�楳y Victorious Triumphs Are All Thine鈥�: Romance and Elect Community in Lucy Hutchinson鈥檚 Order and Disorder,鈥� Studies in Philology 112.1 (2015).

  • 鈥淢ilton鈥檚 Counter-Revision of Romantic Structure in Paradise Regained,鈥� Huntington Library Quarterly 76.1 (2013). Special issue on Paradise Regained edited by John Rogers.