Steven E. Jones
Curriculum Vitae
Professor of English
Loyola University Chicago
Co-Editor, Romantic Circles
Department of English
Crown Center 421
6525 North Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60626
(773) 508-2792; fax (773) 508-8696
sjones1@luc.edu
http://web.mac.com/stevenjones1/iWeb/Site/Profile.html
[October 2008]
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Employment and Education
2000- : Professor of English, Loyola University
1994-2000: Associate Professor of English, Loyola University
1988-1994: Assistant Professor of English, Loyola University
1988: Ph.D., English, Columbia University (English Romanticism)
1980: B.A., Highest Honors, University of Oklahoma
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Selected Professional Service
Co-creator and Co-editor, Romantic Circles [http://www.rc.umd.edu]
Editor, Keats-Shelley Journal (1993- 2004)
Editorial Board, Keats-Shelley Journal (2005- )
Vice President, Keats-Shelley Association of America
Founding Steering Committee, NINES, directed, Jerome McGann,
2003- [http://www.nines.org]
Director, Romantic Circles High School Project (funded by a
$230,000 grant from the NEH, 1999-2002)
Member, Advisory Board: The William Blake Archive [http://www.blakearchive.org]
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English 471: The Social
Life of Romantic Poetry (Fall
2007)
English 288: Nature in Literature (Fall 2007)
English 390: Video Games and Textual Studies (Spring 2007)
English 335: British Literature of the Romantic Period (Spring 2007)
English 338: Luddite Literature (Fall 2005)
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Research interests
Romantic-period English literature and culture
Textual studies (including digital textuality and new media)
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Publications
Books and editions
The Meaning of Video Games: Gaming and Textual Strategies. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Against
Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism. New York: Routledge, 2006.
(Ed.) The
Satiric Eye: Forms of Satire in the Romantic Period, New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2003.
Satire
and Romanticism,
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
Shelley's
Satire: Violence, Exhortation, and Authority, Northern Illinois UP, 1994.
(Ed.) The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts XVII: Drafts for "Laon and
Cythna," New
York: Garland, 1994.
(Ed.) The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts XV: The Julian and Maddalo Draft
Notebook, New York:
Garland, 1990.
(Ed.) Mary
Shelley's The Last Man: an online
hypertext edition , Romantic Circles, 1996.
[http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/lastman]
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“Second Life, Video Games, and the Social Text,”
(forthcoming, Jan. 2009) PMLA.
“Dickens on Lost: Text, Paratext, Fan-based Media,” The Wordsworth
Circle, 38.2
(Winter/Spring 2007), 71-77.
“Combinatoric Form in Romantic-Period Graphical Satire,” in Romanticism and Form, ed. Alan Rawes, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
“The Significance of Electronic Poster Sessions,” Inside Higher Ed (March 30, 2006), [http://www.insidehighered.com/].
“Digital Romanticism in the Age of Neo-Luddism: the Romantic Circles Experiment,” Romanticism on the Net 41-42 (special anniversary Issue, Feb.-May, 2006). [http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2006/v/n41-42/013152ar.html ]
With Neil Fraistat, “The MOO as Arcade: Minimalism, Immersion, and Literary Interpretation," Text Technology, 13.2 (2004 [2005]). [http://texttechnology.mcmaster.ca/]
with Neil Fraistat, “The Poem and the Interface,” in John
Unsworth, with Lou Burnard and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, eds., Electronic
Textual Editing.
New York: MLA, 2006.
“Nineteenth Century Satiric Verse,” chapter 19, A Companion
to Satire from the Biblical World to the Present, Blackwell Companions to Literature
and Culture, Ed. Ruben Quintero. Blackwell, 2006.
“Satire,” in Romanticism: An Oxford Companion, ed. Nicholas Roe, Oxford
University Press, 2004.
with Neil Fraistat, "Immersive Textuality," TEXT,
Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, vol. 15 (2003), 69-82.
"Lord Byron, Multimedia Artist," The Byron
Journal, 29 (2001),
36-46.
"Net Work in
the Virtual Department", Association of Departments of English
Bulletin, 127
(Winter 2001), 51-54.
"'Supernatural,
or at Least Romantic': the Ancient Mariner
and Parody," Romanticism on the Net, 15, special issue on Romantic
Parody (August 1999):
[http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1999/v/n15/005872ar.html].
with Neil Fraistat and Carl Stahmer, "The Canon, The Web,
and the Digitization of Romanticism.” Romanticism On the Net, 10 (May 1998):
[http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1998/v/n10/005801ar.html].
"Satire and Countersatire in Crabbe and Wordsworth," The
Wordsworth Circle,
29.1 (Winter 1998), 60-67.
"The Book of
Myst in the Late Age of Print",
Postmodern Culture,
7.2 (Jan. 1997) [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pmc/v007/7.2jones.html:
subscription required].
"The Black Dwarf as Satiric Performance," in Romanticism, Radicalism, and the
Press, ed. Stephen
C. Behrendt, Wayne State University Press, 1997.
"Material Intertextuality in Shelley's Rough Draft Notebooks," TEXT,
Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, vol. 8, pp. 239-47.
"Shelley's Mask and Brecht's Zug," in Shelley, Poet and Legislator of the World, ed. Betty T. Bennett and Stuart
Curran. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, 193-200.
"'Choose reform or Civil War': Shelley, The English Revolution, and the
Problem of Succession," The Wordsworth Circle, 25.3 (Summer 1994), 145-49.
"Intertextual Influence in Byron's Juvenalian Satire," Studies in
English Literature,
33.4 (Autumn 1993), 771-83.
"Shelley's 'Love the Universe': The Symposium and Romantic Paganism,"
Keats-Shelley Journal, 42 (1993), 80-96.
"Reconstructing Romantic Satire," Special Issue: English Romanticism,
American Notes & Queries (April, July 1993), 131-36.
"Apostasy and Exhortation: Shelley's Satiric Fragments in the Huntington
Notebooks," Huntington Library Quarterly, 53.1 (Winter 1990), 41-61.
"Shelley's Fragment of a 'Satire upon Satire': A Complete Transcription of
the Text with Commentary," Keats-Shelley Journal, 37 (1988), 136-63.
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Selected book reviews
The Melancholy Android: On the Psychology of Sacred
Machines, by Eric
G. Wilson, The Wordsworth Circle, 37.4 (2006).
Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: the Afterlife of the
Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture, by Jay Clayton, The Wordsworth Circle, 36.4 (2005).
Writings of the Luddites, ed. by Kevin Binfield, The
Wordsworth Circle
35.4 (2004).
Leigh Hunt: A Life in Letters, by Eleanor M. Gates, Studies in
Romanticism (Fall
2002).
Parodies of the Romantic Age, ed. Graeme Stones and John Strachan,
5 vols., Keats-Shelley Journal, 50 (2001), 192-94.
The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. I, ed. Fraistat and Reiman, PBSA 95.2 (June 2001), 260-62.
Print Politics,
by Kevin Gilmartin, Modern Philology (February
2000).
Byron's "Don Juan" and the Don Juan Legend, by Moyra Haslett, The
Wordsworth Circle,
29.4 (1998).
The Frankenstein Notebooks, ed. Charles E. Robinson, Romantic Circles Reviews (1998).
Shelley and the Revolution in Taste, by Timothy Morton, Criticism, (1997).
The Last of the Race, by Fiona J. Stafford, The Wordsworth Circle, 27.4 (1996).
The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. I, ed. E. B. Murray. Oxford edition, JEGP, (1995), 262-65.
Radical Satire and Print Culture 1790-1832, by Marcus Wood; and Satire and Sentiment
1660-1830, by
Claude Rawson, Keats-Shelley Journal, 44 (1995), 262-64.
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“Romantic Circles 2.0,” with Neil Fraistat, NASSR (Bologna,
2008).
“The Meaning of Video Games: A Textual Studies Approach,”
Society for Textual Scholarship conference (New York, March 2007).
“Electronic Textual Editing: What’s Next?,” MLA
(Philadephia, 2006).
Co-organizer of preconference workshop, “Nineteenth-century Electronic
Scholarship in the Era of Web 2.0,” NASSR (Purdue University, 2006).
“This Medium will Metastasize: Videogames and Textual
Studies,” MLA (Washington, DC, 2005).
Electronic Journals Poster Session: “Romantic Circles Praxis
Series,” MLA (Washington, DC,
2005).
“’The Corsair’: Lord Byron’s Best-Seller.” National Public
Radio interview by Scott Simon. February 5, 2005 [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4487368
].
“The MOO as Arcade,” ACH/ALLC conference, Göteborg, Sweden, June 2004.
“The MOO as Arcade,” special session: “Interpretive Gaming,” NASSR (New York, August 2003).
Organizer and chair, sub-plenary session, "Digital
Textuality and Visual Culture" (speakers: Thomas Beller and Bradford
Paley), Society for Textual Scholarship conference (New York, March 2003).
Organizer and chair, special session: “Digital Futures:
Competing Paradigms for Computing in the Humanities;” paper: “Critical Gaming:
The Third Way of Humanities Computing,” MLA (New York, 2002).
Lecture and demo. (with Neil Fraistat), "Immersive
Textuality," Harvard Area Romanticists seminar, Harvard University (19
March 2003); (with Neil Fraisat) University of Colorado Humanities Center (19 April
2002); The Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago (22
October 2001).
Panel and workshop, "Digital Romanticism," NASSR (Seattle, August
2001)
Plenary lecture, with Neil Fraistat: "Immersive Textuality," Society
for Textual Scholarship conference (New York, April 2001)
"Re-purposing Publishing: The Romantic Circles Project," Clemson
University Symposium (April 2001)
Featured speaker: MediaMOO's annual Symposium: "Educational MU*"
(online, 17 January 2001)
"The Spatialization of Text and the Textualization of Space: Editing the
MOO," MLA (Washington, D.C., 2000)
Networked demo., with Neil Faistat, Paul Martin, Carl Stahmer: "Making
Literary Knowledge online," NCTE (Milwaukee, November 2000)
Invited lecture: "Lord Byron, Multimedia Artist," BBC concert series,
(Nottingham, UK, October 2000)
Plenary address, ADE Midwest: "Net Work in the Virtual Department,"
(Chicago, June 2000)
Respondent: "Reading Shelley's Interventionist Poetry," MLA (Chicago,
1999)
"Imagining the User: Electronic Editions on the Web," MLA (Chicago,
1999)
Demo., with Neil Fraistat, Martha Nell Smith, and others: "Making MITH a
Reality," Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference (London, 1999)
"Byron's Satiric Blues," MLA (San Francisco, 1998)
"Romantic Circles High School," Digital Resources in the Humanities
Conference (Glasgow, September 1998)
Invited lecture: "Satire and Countersatire in Crabbe and Wordsworth,"
The Wordsworth Summer Conference (Grasmere, UK, August 1997)
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Memberships
Modern Language Association; Society for Textual Scholarship; North American
Society for the Study of Romanticism; Keats-Shelley Association of America;
Wordsworth-Coleridge Association of America