Anna Maria Jones

Director of Graduate Programs
Associate Professor

amjones@mail.ucf.edu
407-823-3406
Office Hours: by appointment only
Campus Location: CNH302E

Education

Ph.D. in English Literature from University of Notre Dame (2002)
B.A. in English Literature from North Carolina State University (1993)

Research Interests

Victorian literature and culture
critical theory
history of the novel
sensation fiction
science and literature

Selected Publications

Books

Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self. Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2007.

Articles/Essays

Forthcoming Sheridan Le Fanu. A Companion to Sensation Fiction. Ed. Pamela Gilbert. Oxford, UK: Blackwell's, 2010 (6000 words; under contract).
Forthcoming “Victorian Literary Theory.” Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture. Ed. Francis O'Gorman. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. (7000 words; in press)
“‘A Track to the Water’s Edge’: Learning to Suffer in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins.” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 26.2 (Fall 2007): 217-43.
“Eugenics by Way of Aesthetics: Sexual Selection, Cultural Consumption, and the Cultivated Reader in The Egoist.” LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 16.1 (2005): 101-28.
“‘A Victim in Search of a Torturer’: Reading Masochism in Wilkie Collins’s No Name.” Novel 33.2 (2000): 196-211.

Book Reviews

Forthcoming Review of Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction, by Garrett Stewart. Nineteenth-Century Literature (June 2010).
“Not the Same Old Masochism.” Review of Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class, by John Kucich. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 42.1 (Spring 2008) http://www.ncgsjournal.com/.

Conference Papers/Presentations

'What should make thee inaccessible to my fury': Theorizing Fantasies and Phobias of Revenge in Caleb Williams. Presented at PHOBIA: Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present Conference, Cardiff, Wales, 2009.
“Self-Help, Revenge, and the Rights of Mannion in Wilkie Collins’s Basil.” Presented at the 23rd Annual INCS Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2008.
“The Progress of Revenge in The Beetle, or, What’s Scarier than an Ancient, Evil, Shape-shifting Bug?” Presented at the 22nd Annual INCS Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, 2007.
“Inscrutable Revenge, or, the Psychopathology of Capitalism in Victorian Sensation Fiction.” Presented at the International Conference on Narrative, Washington, D.C., 2007.
“Introducing...Theory: Teaching Literary Theory to Undergraduates.” Presented at the SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2005.
“Ambivalent Agency: The Militant Suffragette, The Swan, and the Tortured Body as a Site of Self-(Mis)Recognition.” Presented at [CTRL]: Controlling Bodies/Controlling Spaces Conference, Montreal, Quebec, 2004.
“‘This is the saddest story I’ve ever heard’: Modernism’s Melancholia and the Loss of the Domestic in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier.” Presented at the International Conference on Narrative, Berkeley, California, 2003.
“‘Now I wanna be your dog’: Bestial Constructions of Interracial Homoerotic Desire, and the Anti-Bildungsroman in Wilkie Collins’s Armadale.” Presented at the 18th Annual INCS Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Santa Cruz, California, 2003.
“Eugenics by Way of Aesthetics: Sexual Selection and Cultural Consumption in George Meredith’s The Egoist.” Presented at the Northeastern Modern Language Association (NEMLA), Boston, Massachusetts, 2003.
“Narrative Degeneration: Realism, Sexual Selection and the Death of Desire in George Meredith’s The Egoist.” Presented at the International Conference on Narrative, East Lansing, Michigan, 2002.

Awards

"Ambivalent Agency: The Militant Suffragette in Turn of the Century England." UCF In-House Grant, 2006
UCF Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award. 2006.