Professor and Director of the minor in American Studies
Office
Humanities 242 H
Department of English
Loyola University Maryland
4501 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210
Phone: 410-617-5440
jlcole@loyola.edu
Blog: http://jeanleecole.wordpress.com
Twitter: @ProfJLC https://twitter.com/profjlc
CV available at Academia.edu https://loyola.academia.edu/JeanLeeCole
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
Recent Publications
- How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 (University Press of Mississippi, 2020)
- Lead Editor: Parole Femine: Words and Lives of the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore (Apprentice House Press/Loyola University 2019)
- "A New Digital Divide? Recovery Editing in the Age of Digitization" (Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 2016)
- "Rising from the Gutter: Rudolph Block, the Comic Strip, and the Ghetto Fiction of Bruno Lessing" (MELUS: Multiethnic Literatures of the United States, 2016)
- "An Accidental Activist: Rediscovering Thoreau After the Death of Freddie Gray" (The Concord Saunterer, 2015)
- 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 Websites
Professional Affiliations
- Editor, American Periodicals
- Modern Language Association
- Society for the History of Authors, Readers, and Publishers (SHARP)
- Research Society for American Periodicals
- American Studies Association
Other
Extracurricular activities: Playing music and racquet sports, urban greening, crafts of all kinds, art, Orioles baseball, Baltimore.