Shermaine M. Jones
Assistant Professor
smjones@vcu.edu
(804) 827-8324
Hibbs Hall 324A
Education
BA Dartmouth College
MA, PhD University of Virginia
Research/Teaching Focus
African American Literature; African and Afro-Caribbean Literature; Affect Studies & Theory; Autobiography, Memoirs, & Self-writing in the African American Literary Tradition.
Recent/Selected Publications
“Presenting Our Bodies, Laying Our Case”: The Political Efficacy of Grief and Rage During The Civil Rights Movement in Alice Walker’s Meridian. Southern Quarterly Journal 52. 1 Fall (2014):179 –196.
