Office: Keezell 208
Phone: 540-568-6391
Email:raymonmj@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2009 MWF 11:00-12:20

Courses:
GENG 235: Survey of English Literature Part I, MWF9:05-9:55 and MWF 10:10-11:00
GENG 236: Survey of English Literature Part II, MWF 12:20-1:10 and MWF 1:25-2:15

Education

Ph.D. and M.A. Department of English, New York University  (Ph.D.  May, 2005)
B.A. in English and American Literature, Bates College

Teaching and Research Interests

The Long Eighteenth Century (1688-1832), Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature, The Sonnet, Sensibility, The Gothic, Mourning and Melancholy, Antiquarianism, Aestheticism, Transmission Studies

Recent Conference Presentations

“Elizabeth Tollet’s Prospect: Bridging the Gap in the Sonnet Tradition.” Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Auburn University, 2008.

“Opening the Sonnet’s Crypt: Restoring the Form / Restoring the Face of the Dead,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Montreal, Canada, 2005.

“The ‘Aesthete in Keats’: Decadence, Deviance and the ‘Ode on Melancholy,’” International Gothic Association Conference: “Deviance and Defiance,” Montreal, Canada, 2005.

“‘When the Short Marble but Preserves a Name’: Thomas Gray’s ‘Epitaph on Mrs. Clerke’ and the Commonplaces of Mourning,” Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fredericton, NB, Canada, 2005.

“Between Pleasure’s Temple and the Temple of Delight: Keats and the Place of ‘Sleep and Poetry’ in the ‘Ode on Melancholy,’” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, New York, 2003.

 Publications

“Teaching & Learning Guide: The Romantic-Period Sonnet,” forthcoming, Literature Compass (Blackwell Publishing).

“The Romantic Sonnet Revival: Opening the Sonnet’s Crypt,” Literature Compass 4.3 (2007): 721–736 (Blackwell Publishing).

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