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
Fax: 410-617-2702
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

• Books in Baltimore, Then and Now: multimedia tour of Baltimore booksellers from 1800 to the present, available on the izi.TRAVEL app, the izi. TRAVEL website: https://izi.travel/en/9933-books-in-baltimore-then-and-now/en and Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jean-lee-cole/sets/books-in-baltimore-then-and-now
• 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/

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.