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 competing forces of Transcendentalism and the Gothic in American literature and culture.
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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
English 265 - Special Topics: Imperial Horrors, Postcolonial Hauntings
"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.