Jones DeRitter
Professor of English
Department of English Chair
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510

Education:

A.B. Oberlin College, 1977
M.A. University of Virginia, 1980
Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1988

Publications:

1997 " 'Wonder not, princely Gloster, at the notice this paper brings you': Women, Writing, and Politics in Rowe's Jane Shore."

Comparative Drama 37: 86-104.

1996 "Blaming the Audience, Blaming the Gods: Unwitting Incest in Three Eighteenth-Century English Novels."

in Thomas DiPiero and Pat Gill, eds., Illicit
Sex: Identity Politics in Early ModernCulture
(Athens, Ga.: U of Georgia P), 221-238.

1994 The Embodiment of Characters: The Representation of Physical Experience on Stage and In Print, 1728-1749.

University of Pennsylvania Press.

1994 "'Not the Person she conceived me': The Public Identities of Charlotte Charke."

Genders 19: 3-25.

1989 "'How Came This Muff Here?': A Note on Tom Jones."

English Language Notes 26: 41-46.

1988 "A Cult of Dependence: The Social Context of The London Merchant."

Comparative Drama 21: 374-386.

1986 "The Gypsy, The Rover, and the Wanderer: Aphra Behn's Review of Thomas Killigrew.

Restoration 10: 82-92.

Employment:

1990-present -Assistant / Associate Professor, University of Scranton
1989-1990 -Visiting Assistant Professor, Skidmore College
1988-1989 -Visiting Assistant Professor, New College, University of South Florida
1981-1988 -Graduate Instructor / Instructor, University of Virginia

Memberships:

Modern Language Association
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Group for Early Modern Culture Studies

Teaching Interests:

Restoration & 18th-Century British Literature
Restoration & 18th-Century British Theater
Race in Anglo-American Culture, 1600-1860
The Godwin / Wollstonecraft / Shelley Households
Various composition and introductory courses

Current Research Projects:

A collective biography of several early modern women (including Pocahontas, Mary Jemison and Frances Slocum) who moved across the cultural divide between Anglo-American and native American societies.