Dr. Suzanne W. Jones
Professor of English
(804) 289-8307
sjones@richmond.edu
Topics: Literature (American South), Literature (Race Relations), Literature (Contemporary fiction by women)
Jones studies literature of the American South, and how literature can be used to help readers understand race relations and other complex social issues. She is interested in all aspects of the contemporary South, "particularly how it is sometimes given a one-dimensional portrait in the media," she says. She has published many articles on Southern literature, and her book, Race Mixing: Southern Fiction Since the Sixties, was published in March 2004 (Johns Hopkins University Press). Choice listed Race Mixing as "essential" for "all academic and public libraries."
She is the editor of Crossing the Color Line: Readings in Black and White (University of South Carolina Press). This collection of contemporary stories about race relations was called a "must read" by 64 Magazine. Jones is also editor of another collection of stories: Growing up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (Signet Classics), and coeditor with Sharon Monteith of a collection of essays, South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture (Louisiana State University Press).
Her work on women writers has centered on the aesthetics of interior spaces and the representation of the artist in fiction. She edited a collection of essays, Writing the Woman Artist (University of Pennsylvania Press).
For more information on Jones, please visit the Richmond Research Institute.