Victorian literature and culture; science and literature; the Gothic; Victorian periodicals; visual culture; Japanese manga and anime; Aestheticism and Decadence and their afterlives; transnational neo-Victorianism
Anna Maria Jones teaches courses in Victorian and neo-Victorian literature and culture, literary theory, history of the novel, modern British literature, and Japanese manga and anime. All of her research, Victorian and neo-Victorian, is concerned with the many-faceted, and often vexed, ways that readers engage with narrative and visual texts and with the ways that these texts invite readers to reimagine the boundaries of self and other. She is particularly interested in works that explore (and challenge) the intersecting conventions of gender and genre. Dr. Jones's book, Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self, was published in the Ohio State University Press’s Victorian Critical Interventions series in 2007. She is co-editor, with Rebecca N. Mitchell, of Drawing on the Victorians: The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts (Ohio University Press). Her articles have focused on eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century Gothic novels, William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Richard Marsh's The Beetle, on Toboso Yana's neo-Victorian Gothic manga, Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) and manga adaptations of A. C. Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and on the short-lived Victorian monthly magazine, Dark Blue (1871–73), among other topics. Her current research explores transnational and transmedial engagements with and appropriations of nineteenth-century Aestheticism. Formerly director of graduate studies for the Department of English, she also served as director of What's Next: Integrative Learning for Professional and Civic Preparation (2016–21), UCF's Quality Enhancement Plan, a university-wide five-year initiative to prepare undergraduates to achieve their professional goals and to be engaged, empowered citizens. She co-edits Prose Studies, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of nonfiction prose in all historical and contemporary contexts.
Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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19708 | LIT6216 | Issues in Literary Study | Mixed-Mode/Reduce Seat-Time(M) | Tu 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM | Unavailable |
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No courses found for Fall 2022.
Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Session | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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61255 | LIT6936 | Studies in Lct Theory | Web-Based (W) | C | Unavailable | |
LIT 6396: Studies in LCT Theory: Transnational Literary Studies From debates about the place of “world literature” in literary studies, to critiques of what philosopher Achille Mbembe has termed the necropolitics of colonialism and its afterlives, to explorations of literature in the diaspora, the field of transnational literary studies comprises a vast and multi-faceted array of theoretical and critical approaches. This course does not attempt a comprehensive overview or historical survey of the field; rather, it offers an introduction to several important and current conversations within it. The course is organized around the following key concepts: world literature, translation/untranslatablity, the Global South, decoloniality, the Anglophone novel, Blackness, and diaspora. Students must have reliable access to a computer and Internet and will be expected to: complete all reading assignments; participate regularly and productively in online forums; conduct independent research; and write formal and informal textual analyses. Course readings are mostly theoretical and critical works that address these key concepts; however, students will read several literary texts in relation to the scholarly debates. Required readings will include:
· Emily Apter, Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatablity (Verso, 2013) · Minae Mizumura, An I-Novel (Columbia UP, 2019) · Aamir Mufti. Forget English!: Orientalisms and World Literatures (Harvard UP, 2016) · Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (Random House, 1997) · Julietta Singh, Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke UP, 2018) · Zadie Smith, Swing Time (Penguin, 2016) · Michelle M. Wright, Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora (Duke UP, 2004) |
No courses found for Spring 2022.
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80895 | LIT6216 | Issues in Literary Study | Mixed-Mode/Reduce Seat-Time(M) | M 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM | Unavailable |
LIT6216: “Victorian Afterlives”
Taking as its theme “Victorian Afterlives,” this course will explore the persistent influence and popularity of “the Victorian” in contemporary culture. From Steampunk manga, to adaptations of classic nineteenth-century texts like Jane Eyre and Great Expectations, to appropriations of iconic figures like Sherlock Holmes, Alice in Wonderland, and Jack the Ripper, neo-Victorianism is a mode that pervades contemporary global culture. In this course we will examine some of the central concerns, tropes, and formal innovations of nineteenth-century British literary and visual culture, and then we will consider what it means for these concerns, tropes, and innovations to be reinvented in our own time. We will explore, in other words, why and how the Victorians continue to have such staying power for us today. In addition to current criticism, we will examine works such as: Julian Barnes, Arthur & George Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Arthur Conan Doyle, Sign of Four Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans Jamyang Norbu, The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes Bryan Talbot, Alice in Sunderland Yana Toboso, Black Butler Sarah Waters, Fingersmith |
Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Session | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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61842 | ENL4273 | Modern British Literature | Web-Based (W) | B | Unavailable | |
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C (2.0) or better required in ENG 3014. Major writers of modern British literature. |
Updated: Sep 18, 2021