| VITA PERSONAL: Jane Anderson Jones |
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| EDUCATION: 1979: ABD, New York
University, New York, New York 1974: MA, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, Ohio 1970: BA, cum laude, Hobart and William Smith
Colleges, Geneva, New York GRANTS AND AWARDS: 2004: Distinguished Colleague Award, Florida College English Association 2002: Vice President's Academic Excellence Award, MCC 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 1981-82: adjunct lecturer 1977-81: teaching fellow 1977-80: adjunct instructor 1972-74: teaching fellow 1970-71: English instructor 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:
"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."
"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: "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: Student Evaluation Subcommittee, 2007-2008 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. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: |
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