

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.

