Gavin Jones, Professor Primary Office: 460-417 At Stanford Since: 1999 Email: grjones@stanford.edu Current Year's Courses: Hemingway, Hurston, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald Masterpieces of American Literature Antebellum American Literature Degrees: Ph.D., Princeton University, 1996 M.A., Princeton, 1993 B.A., The University of Oxford, First Class Honors, 1990 |
Jones is the author of Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America (University of California Press, 1999) and American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 (Princeton University Press, 2007). He has published articles on George W. Cable, Theodore Dreiser, W.E.B. DuBois, Sylvester Judd, Paule Marshall, Mark Twain, and Herman Melville, in journals such as American Literary History, New England Quarterly, and African American Review. He is currently working on a study of the American writer Sherwood Anderson, and a book, "Poe Mania," about Edgar Allan Poe's weird effect on his readers. Links: |
