Associate Professor

Office

Humanities 242 D
Department of English
Loyola University Maryland
4501 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210

Phone: 410-617-5440
Fax: 410-617-2702
jlcole@loyola.edu

Education

• M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas (Austin)
• B.A., Carleton College

Courses Taught

• EN 203 Major Writers: American Literature (Themes: Natural and Urban Landscapes; Three Decades of New York City)
• EN 366 American Literature Before WWI
• EN 367 The Civil War in American Literature
• EN 369 The Novel in the United States 
• EN 389 Gender in American Literature 1890-1910
• EN 397 The American West

Professional Affiliations

• Modern Language Association
• Society for the History of Authors, Readers, and Publishers (SHARP)
• Research Society for American Periodicals
• American Studies Association

Recent Publications 

• The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity (2002)
• Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays (co-editor, 2008)
• Madame Butterfly and A Japanese Nightingale: Two Orientalist Texts (co-editor, 2002) 
• "The Hideous Obscure of Henry James," in American Periodicals 20.2 (Autumn 2010): 190-215.
• Freedom's Witness: The Civil War Writings of Henry McNeal Turner (West Virginia University Press, 2013),  http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2013/03/06/wvu-press-publishes-freedom-s-witness-the-civil-war-correspondence-of-henry-mcneal-turner

Recommended Website

• Online exhibit from Fall 2009 course, EN 367: The Novel in America: "The City that Reads: Novels in Baltimore"
  URL: http://www.loyola.edu/library/citythatreads/

Other

Extracurricular activities: Piano, tennis, gardening, cooking, knitting, painting and other visual arts, urban hikes around Baltimore (with and without dog), Orioles, baseball, husband.