Faculty Colloquium featuring
English Professor J. Jennifer Jones

J. Jennifer Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Rhode Island. She teaches late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature & culture with a focus on Romantic poetry, poetics, & aesthetics, as well as Romantic-era philosophy and contemporary cultural theory. She has published articles and book reviews in Studies in Romanticism, Romantic Circles Praxis, and Romantic and Victorian Literature on the Net (RAVON), has recently guest-edited a special issue of Praxis entitled "The Sublime and Education," and is working on a book entitled Virtual Romanticism.

Professor Jones will be presenting the critical introduction to the special journal issue of Praxis that she recently edited, entitled "The Sublime and Education," which will feature essays by Ian Balfour, Christopher Braider, Frances Ferguson, Paul Hamilton, Anne McCarthy, Forest Pyle, and Deborah Elise White. The introduction, entitled "Romantic Training," presents what has been this issue's inspiration, which is to theorize the possibility of an immanent pedagogical sublime. This theorization includes the study of Immanuel Kant's pedagogical theory, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's reading of Kant in her own pedagogical theory, the work of Romantic poetry, specifically Wordsworth, and finally, an attempt to figure an immanent pedagogical sublime through the example of the equine sport, dressage.

Parking passes will be provided to people attending this event. You are welcome to bring your lunch to the presentation, though the format of the event will be formal: faculty presentation of between 30-40 minutes followed by Q and A.

Please join us at Tazza Cafe afterwards for further informal conversation and celebration of the work of Professors Jones.

Questions? Contact:
Mary Cappello, Professor of English and Creative Writing, mcapp@uri.edu

Professor Rojas’ talk will focus on David Humphreys, a poet and diplomat who figured continuously in the texts that record the history of Barbary piracy and captivity, but whose role in these pivotal events has yet to be fully understood. Humphreys' frequent appearance in Barbary narratives, and his own writing about Algerian piracy and captivity require a reconsideration of the role of poetry in public discourse and complicate emerging claims for the role of Barbary narratives in the development of the U.S. novel.

Martha Elena Rojas is an Assistant Professor of English at URI. She teaches Early American, Antebellum, and maritime U.S. literature and culture, and is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled Diplomatic Letters: Becoming a Nation Among Nations

Parking passes will be provided to people attending this event. You are welcome to bring your lunch to the presentation, though the format of the event will be formal: faculty presentation of between 30-40 minutes followed by Q and A.

Please join us at Tazza Cafe afterwards for further informal conversation and celebration of the work of Professors Rojas.

Questions? Contact:
Mary Cappello, Professor of English and Creative Writing, mcapp@uri.edu