VITA

PERSONAL:

Jane Anderson Jones
Professor, State College of Florida, Manatee and Sarasota
(formerly Manatee Community College) 
8000 South Tamiami Trail, Venice FL 34293
Telephone: 941-408-1499
E-mail: jonesj@scf.edu


Jane Anderson Jones

EDUCATION:

1979: ABD, New York University, New York, New York
Major: English Literature, Specialty: Medieval Literature

1974: MA, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Major: English Literature

1970: BA, cum laude, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York
Major: English Literature
Minors: Drama and German
Honors Thesis: "The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht"

 GRANTS AND AWARDS:

2004: Distinguished Colleague Award, Florida College English Association

2002: Vice President's Academic Excellence Award, MCC
          National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Excellence Award

2001-04: FIPSE grant: Twenty-first Century Skills and General Education. Webweaver, Curriculum Learning and Design Team

1994: Florida Humanities Council grant: "In Search of Florida Voices: Poets Envision Home." Co-director

1993: National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Study Project: "The Mosaic of Latin America." Co-director. Earned 6 hours graduate credit from Florida International University: FOW 5587 Comparative Studies and FOW 5545 Bi-Cultural Writing

1992: National Endowment for the Humanities Study Grant: Japanese Theatre

1991: NEH/AACJC Team Grant for Advancement in Humanities

1990-91: Speakers Bureau, Florida Endowment for the Humanities (now Florida Humanities Council)

1980: Sidney and Celia Siegel Fellowship in the Humanities for Teaching Excellence, New York University

1977-81: Teaching Fellow, NYU

1972-74: Teaching Fellow, CWRU

1970: Phi Beta Kappa, William Smith College

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1993-present: professor;  1989-93: associate professor;  1982-89: assistant professor
State College of Florida, Manatee and Sarasota: Venice Campus
(formerly Manatee Community College) 
English Literature I and II
World Literature I and II
Intercultural Humanities I and II
Western Humanities I and II
Women and Literature: traditional and online
Contemporary Literature: traditional and online
The Novel: traditional and online
History of the Drama I and II
Written Communications I and II

 1981-82: adjunct lecturer
Queens College, CUNY, Queens, New York
Composition II
Remedial Composition

1977-81: teaching fellow
New York University, New York, New York
Honors Seminar: Female Rites of Passage
Expository Writing I and II

1977-80: adjunct instructor
Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, New York, New York
Freshman Composition I and II
Remedial Composition

 1972-74: teaching fellow
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Freshman Composition
Creative Writing

1970-71: English instructor
Training and Technical Assistance Program
Model Cities, Baltimore, Maryland
GED English

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

The Poetry of Florida: A History of the Imagination. Editor, Introduction and Notes with Maurice O'Sullivan. Pineapple Press, 1995.

Frida Kahlo. Rourke Publishing, 1993.

 Articles:

"Finding Edith Pope." Florida Studies: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association. Ed. Claudia Slate. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.

"Hurricane Madness: A Survey of Hurricanes in Florida Novels." In Florida Studies: Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association. Ed. Claudia Slate. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.

"The Renaissance Novelle." In Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition. Ed. Charles E. May. 7 vols. Salem Press, 2001.

"Florida in Renaissance Poetry." The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature. VIII, 1999.

"Literature and Families." In Encyclopedia of Family Life. Ed. Carl L. Bankston III. 5 vols. Salem Press, 1998.

"Bone by Fae Myenne Ng." In Masterpieces of Women's Literature. HarperCollins, 1996.

"Juan Ponce de León's Voyages to Florida's Gulf Coast: Encounters with the Calusa" and "Seminole Wars 1816, 1835 1855." In Great Events from History: North America. Rev. Ed. Salem Press, 1996.

"Baal by Bertolt Brecht," "for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf by ntozake shange," "The Wandering Scholar from Paradise by Hans Sachs," "Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov," and "The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry" in Masterplots: Twentieth Anniversary Revised Second Edition. Salem Press, 1996.

"The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector." Masterpieces of Latino Literature, HarperCollins, 1994.

with Maurice O'Sullivan, "The Poetry of Florida." The Book Lovers' Guide to Florida. Ed. Kevin McCarthy. Pineapple Press, 1992.

"Green Mansions by W.H. Hudson." Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Fiction. Salem Press, 1990.

"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera." Survey of Contemporary Literature. Salem Press, 1988.

"The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf." Survey of Contemporary Literature. Salem Press, 1988.

"Angela Carter: Long Fiction." Critical Surveys of Literature , Salem Press, 1987.

 Book Reviews:

"Bone by Bone by Peter Matthiessen." 1999 Magill's Literary Annual.

"love, again by Doris Lessing." 1996 Magill's Literary Annual.

"An Accidental Autobiography by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison." 1996 Magill's Literary Annual.

"The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait. Introduction by Carlos Fuentes, Essay and Commentaries by Sarah Lowe." 1995 Magill's Literary Annual

"Zora Neale Hurston: Novels & Stories and Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings: The Library of America." 1995 Magill's Literary Annual.

 "Marina Tsvetaeva: The Double Beat of Heaven and Hell by Lily Feiler."
1994 Magill's Literary Annual.

"Bone by Fae Myenne Ng." 1993 Magill's Literary Annual.

"Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry by Lorrie Goldensohn." 1991 Magill's Literary Annual.

"Frida Kahlo: The Paintings by Hayden Herrera." Dow Jones News/Retrieval, 1991.

"A Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century, translated and edited by Tania Bayard." Dow Jones News/Retrieval, 1991.

"Philadelphia Fire by John Widemann." 1990 Magill's Literary Annual.

"King of the World by Merrill Jean Gerber." 1990 Magill's Literary Annual.

"Accident/A Day's News by Christa Wolf." 1989 Magill's Literary Annual.

"A Renaissance Tapestry: The Gonzaga of Mantua by Kate Simon." 1988 Magill's Literary Annual.

SELECTED ACADEMIC PAPERS:

"Finding Edith Pope." Florida College English Association, Ybor City, FL, November, 2008.

"Hurricane Madness:  A Survey of Hurricanes in Florida Novels." Florida College English Association, Lakeland, FL, November, 2006.

"Poets in Key West: Frost, Stevens and Bishop." International Hemingway Conference, Key West, FL, June, 2004.

"Infusing 21st Century Skills into Intercultural Humanities." NISOD Conference, Austin, Texas, May, 2002.

"Exploring Florida Cultures in Intercultural Humanities," Florida College English Association, Sanford FL, October, 2001.

"The Cultures of Contemporary Florida: A Poetic View." Community College Humanities Association, Southern Division, Winston-Salem, NC, October, 1996.

"Vivian Laramore Rader: Florida's Poet Laureate 1932-75." College English Association, Orlando, FL, April, 1994.

"A Wry Eye: Elizabeth Bishop in Florida." Florida College English Association, Daytona Beach, FL, January, 1992.

"Towards a Feminist Reading of Malory." Seventh Biennial Medieval-Renaissance Conference New College-USF, Sarasota, FL, March, 1990.

"The Comic Crux: The Chester Shepherds' Play." University of Florida Department of Classics Comparative Drama Conference XI, March, 1987.

"A Festive Civilization: The Spirit of Play in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Fifth Biennial Medieval-Renaissance Conference, New College-USF, Sarasota, FL, March, 1986.

"Tis the Season...An Investigation into the Imagery of Christopher Fry's Quartet." UF Department of Classics Comparative Drama Conference IX, March, 1984.

"The Art of Sir Orfeo." Fourth Triennial Conference of the International Courtly Literature Society, Toronto, Canada, August, 1983.

"Wolfram, Gawan, and Courtly Love." MLA Conference, Houston, Texas, December, 1980.

 ACADEMIC SERVICE:

Publications Committee, 1995-96, 2003-2005, 2007-2010
Promotion Committee, 1994-1996, 2003-2005, 2007-2009

Student Evaluation Subcommittee, 2007-2008
Various Faculty Search Committees,  1985-2008.
Distance Learning Faculty Support Subcommittee: Chair, 2004-2007
Distance Learning Steering Committee, 2004-2007
Distance Learning Mentor, 2003-2007
360 Degree Evaluation Committee, 2006-2007
SACS Quality Enhancement Project Team, 2003-2004
Web Enhancement Team, 2003-2005
Academic Technology and Distance Learning Cross-Functional Team, 2002-2003
Distance Learning Task Force, 2002
Curriculum Development and Review Committee, 1999-2001
President, Faculty Council, MCC: Venice, 1985-86, 1987-89, 1992-94, 1998-99
Management Evaluation Committee, 1997-98.
Information Resources Advisory Committee, 1995-96.
Publications Task Force, 1994-95.
Interdisciplinary Task Force, 1993-94.
Co-director, Faculty Study Project on "Native Americans of La Florida," 1992-93.
Co-director, Faculty Study Project on Cuban Culture, 1991-92.
Chair, Professional Affairs Committee, Faculty Council 1986-87, 1989-90.
Curriculum Committee 1987-89.
Sick Leave Pool Task Force and Committee 1987-88, 1989-91.
Vice-President, Faculty Council, 1983-85.

 SELECTED COMMUNITY PROGRAMS:

2007: "Jane Austen's World: Regency, Revolution and Reaction," presented at Selby Library, Sarasota, and Venice Library as part of the Beyond the Book sponsored by the Asolo Repertory Theatre.

2007: "The Odyssey  in 20th Century Literature," Sarasota Institute for Lifetime Learning.

2002-2003: Discussion Leader, Women & the Novel, monthly book discussion group sponsored  by the Women's Resource Center of Sarasota County, Venice.

2000: "Isabella Bird: An Independent Victorian Lady Travels the World," Sarasota Institute for Lifetime Learning, Sarasota.

1996-98: Scholar/Discussion Leader, "Making Florida Home," Northport, Safety Harbor, Holmes Beach, sponsored by Florida Humanities Council.

1998: "The Politics of Fashion, " Venice Area Women's Alliance

1997: "Courtly Love Poetry," Venice Library, Booked for Lunch.

1996: "Inner Spaces/ Outer Places: 20th Century American Poetry," Sarasota Institute for Lifetime Learning.

1995: "Dramatic Personae: The Poetic Lives of Floridians," Venice Library, Booked for Lunch

1995: "French Neo-Classical Theatre," Expressions in French Culture, Sarasota French Film Festival, Venice Library and Elsie Quirk Library.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Florida College English Association, Board of Directors, 1999-present
               Webweaver, 2000-present
               President, 2001-02
Community College Humanities Association
Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning, Board of Directors, 1994- 2004
Florida Association of Community Colleges

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