Jones, Dr Sue

Job Title: CUF Lecturer in English and Tutorial Fellow
College: St Hilda's
Period/ Subject: 20th/ 21st Century

Email address: susan.jones@ell.ox.ac.uk 

Research Interests:

I am currently completing a monograph, Literature, Modernism, and Dance for Oxford University Press. Two future research projects will come out of this work: one which extensively explores the reception of the Ballets Russes in Britain and its impact on British literary aesthetics in the later twentieth century; the second is an extended project on Samuel Beckett and choreography, which explores Beckett’s relationship to innovations in European modern dance and dramaturgy; third is a consideration of geometry and modernism, focussing on the influence of classical and neo-classical philosophies of space and movement on literature and dance in the twentieth century. I will contribute a chapter on Conrad to a volume of essays The Modernist Party, edited by Kate McLoughlin (forthcoming Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and also continue to co-edit the Cambridge Edition of Joseph Conrad’s Chance (1914) with Allan Simmons (St Mary’s, London), Justin Tonra (Virginia), and John H. Stape (General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of Conrad), a project that should be completed by 2015.

Teaching Areas:

Nineteenth-, Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature; Twentieth-Century drama and dance.

Recent Publications:

‘“Une écriture corporelle”: The Dancer in the Text of Mallarmé and Yeats,’ in The Body and the Arts, ed. by Corinne Saunders, Ulrika Maude and Jane Macnaughton (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

‘“She walked with measured steps”: Physical and Narrative Movement in Heart of Darkness’, in Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre ed. by Jakob Lothe, Jeremy Hawthorn, and Jim Phelan (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008), 100-117

‘From Text to Dance: Andrée Howard's The Sailor's Return,’ Dance Research (UK) 26:1 (April 2008), 1-17 

‘Modernism and the Marketplace: The Case of Conrad’s Chance’, College Literature 34.3 (2007), 101-119

Forthcoming: ‘Modernism and Dance: Apollonine or Dionysiac?’ in The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World, ed. by Fiona Macintosh (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)

‘“At the Still Point”: T. S. Eliot, Modernism, and Dance,’ Dance Research Journal (Fall 2009)

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