Jason Richards joined the English Department at Rhodes in 2008. His teaching and research interests include early and nineteenth-century American literature, Gothic studies, and postcolonial studies. He has published articles in Novel, ARIEL, and American Transcendental Quarterly. His current scholarship examines the role of cultural hybridity in the literature of the early American republic. Vita (PDF) September 2009
Ph.D., English, University of Florida, 2005
M.A., English, California State University, Long Beach, 2000
B.A., Comparative Literature and Classics, California State University, Long Beach, 1997
English 151 - First-Year Writing Seminar: Darkness in the Land of Light
English 265 - Imperial Horrors, Postcolonial Hauntings
English 265 - The Postcolonial Short Story
English 385 - Critical Theory and Methodology
English 485 - Senior Seminar: American Gothic
"Melville′s (Inter)national Burlesque: Whiteface, Blackface, and ′Benito Cereno.′" American Transcendental Quarterly 21.2 (2007): 73-94.
"Imitation Nation: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Making of African American Selfhood in Uncle Tom′s Cabin." Novel 39.2 (2006): 204-20.
"Localizing the Early Republic: Washington Irving and Blackface Culture." ARIEL 35.3-4 (2004): 159-81.
"Herman Melville." Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia. Eds. Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003. 515-17.