Academic Writing

Book:

Jones, Jason B. Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2006. (If your library has JSTOR you may be able to access it here!)

Edited by:

Bloom, Harold, and Jason B. Jones, eds. Charles Dickens. Bloom’s Classic Critical Views. Chelsea House Pub, 2007.

Chapters:

Jones, Jason B. “Communities of Envy: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Virtual Classroom.” In Mark J.P. Wolf, ed. Virtual Morality: Morals, Ethics, & New Media. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. 97-117.

Jones, Jason B. “Loving Civilization’s Discontents: Reich and Jouissance.” In Tim Dean and Christopher Lane, eds. Homosexuality & Psychoanalysis. U of Chicago P, 2001. 168-89.

Jones, Jason B. “The Middlebrow Prophet: Reading the Future of the Modernist Novel in Bennett’s Early Criticism.” In Gregory F. Tague, ed. Origins of English Literary Modernism, 1870-1914. Bethesday: Academica P, 2009. 43-56.

Jones, Jason B. “There Are No New Directions in Annotations.”. In Jack Dougherty and Tennyson O’Donnell, eds. Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning. U of Michigan P, 2015. Print also available.

Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, Jason B. Jones, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, and Amanda French. “Voices: Twitter at Conferences.” In Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt, eds. Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2013. 138-39.

Articles:

Jones, Jason B. “Betrayed by Time: Steampunk & the Neo-Victorian in Alan Moore’s Lost Girls and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.”. Neo-Victorian Studies. 3.1: 2010.

Abstract: Alan Moore’s neo-Victorian comics Lost Girls (2006) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1999-) dramatise enigmatic aspects of temporality, narrative, and history. In particular, the steampunk elements of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen highlight history’s ‘extimate’ quality, neither internal to nor wholly outside the subject. In so doing, they suggest a more conflicted approach to progress and freedom than is usually acknowledged.

Jones, Jason B. “A Date and Time for Swinburne’s The Statue of John Brute.” Notes and Queries 41.3 (September, 1994): 357.

Jones, Jason B. “Revisiting ‘Mr. Bennett’: Pleasure, Aversion, and the Social in The Old Wives’ Tale and Riceyman Steps. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. 46.1: 2003. 29-52.

Jones, Jason B. “The Time of Interpretation: Psychoanalysis and the Past.” Postmodern Culture 14.3: May 2004.

Abstract: Though “deferred action” has entered the theoretical lexicon of the humanities, Lacan’s theory of causality is still poorly understood, as are its implications for interpretation. This essay argues that the return to Freud reveals psychoanalysis to be in the first instance a theory of temporality and history. Against conventional understandings of psychoanalysis as a recovery of the past—the view that the “cure” works because one remembers what “really happened”—Lacan proposes that interpretation works by depleting the analysand’s putative knowledge of the past. Paradoxically, by draining the past of meaning, Lacanian analysis binds us to the work of history. The essay offers a systematic reading of Lacan’s 1950s works on technique, connecting these with later developments to clarify the anti-narrative emphasis in psychoanalytic theory.

Reports:

Kirk Anne, et al. “Building Capacity for Digital Humanities: A Framework for Institutional Planning.” Educause/ECAR. 2017.

Popular Criticism, Interviews, and Columns:

Interviews:

• “The Second Coming of Steampunk: An Interview with Ann and Jeff Vandermeer.” PopMatters (10 Sept. 2008): http://www.popmatters.com/feature/the-second-coming-of-steampunk-an-interview-with-ann-and-jeff-vandermeer/

• “An Interview with Kate Summerscale.” Bookslut (September 2008): http://www.bookslut.com/features/2008_09_013387.php

• “An Interview with Richard K. Morgan.” ClarkesWorld 24 (Sept. 2008): http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/morgan_interview/

• “An Interview with Lisa Appignanesi.” Bookslut (July 2008): http://www.bookslut.com/features/2008_07_013111.php

• “An Interview with Jeff Warren.” Bookslut (June 2008): http://www.bookslut.com/features/2008_06_012943.php

• “Against Dream Interpretation.” Bookslut (February 2008): http://www.bookslut.com/psychoslut/2008_02_012375.php

• “A Pill for Every Mood: An Interview with Christopher Lane.” Bookslut (December 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_12_012048.php

• “Michel Faber’s Fantasies.” PopMatters (31 Oct. 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/feature/michel-fabers-fantasies/

• “Impotence: A Review and Interview.” PopMatters (16 July 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/post/impotence-a-mini-review-and-interview/

• “Dennis Cass Discusses Head Case.” PopMatters (19 May 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/post/dennis-cass-discusses-head-case/

• “An Interview with Mark Solms.” Bookslut (May 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_05_011064.php

• “Long Zoom: An Interview with Steven Johnson.” PopMatters (5 Apr. 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/feature/long-zoom-interview-with-steven-johnson/

Columns:

• “‘Don’t Tell Your Mom’: Freud and Everyday Life.” Bookslut (August 2008): http://www.bookslut.com/psychoslut/2008_08_013273.php

• “In Treatment.” Bookslut (April 2008): http://www.bookslut.com/psychoslut/2008_04_012656.php

• “‘Dialogues of the Mind with Itself’: Volume III: Early Psycho-Analytic Publications (1893-1899)” Bookslut (December 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/psychoslut/2007_12_012047.php

• “Freud on Freud.” Bookslut (November 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/psychoslut/2007_11_011951.php

• “Freud’s Authority.” Bookslut (October 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/psychoslut/2007_10_011780.php

• “A Freud Reader in a Strange Land.” Bookslut (Septmber 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/psychoslut/2007_09_011644.php

Reviews:

• “College as Constant Restart: A Review of Practice for Life.” ProfHacker (8 September 2016): http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/college-as-constant-restart-a-review-of-practice-for-life/62769

• “Doing Deep Work in Distracted Times: Cal Newport’s Deep Work.” ProfHacker (12 January 2016): http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/doing-focused-work-in-distracted-times-cal-newports-deep-work/61497

• “Finding Focus Through Music: A Review of Your Playlist Can Change Your Life.” ProfHacker (11 April 2012): http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/find-focus-through-music/39434

• “Dealing with Jerks on Campus.” ProfHacker (6 May 2011): http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/dealing-with-jerks-on-campus/33236

• “Want to Reach Students? Let Them Build Stuff.” ProfHacker (7 March 2011): http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/build-stuff-the-new-cool/31674

• “I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmundson and His Stone Carvings by Elizabeth Spires.” Bookslut (April 2009): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2009_04_014320.php

• “The Pajamist by Matthew Zapruder.” Bookslut (November 2008): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2008_11_013687.php

• “For All We Know by Ciaran Carson.” Bookslut (July 2008): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2008_07_013113.php

• “Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death by Christopher Kennedy.” Bookslut (March 2008): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2008_03_012639.php

• “Novel Pictorial Noise by Noah Eli Gordon.” Bookslut (March 2008): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2008_03_012638.php

• “The Treatment.” PopMatters (16 Jan 2008): http://www.popmatters.com/review/the-treatment/

• “Epistles: Poems by Mark Jarman.” Bookslut (January 2008): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2008_01_012187.php

• “An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England, by Brock Clarke.” PopMatters (12 Dec. 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/post/an-arsonists-guide-to-writers-homes-in-new-england-by-brock-clarke-2395/ [short version]

• “The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting by Darren Wershler-Henry.” PopMatters (3 December 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/the-iron-whim-by-darren-wershler-henry/

• “Dog Girl by Heidi Lynn Staples.” Bookslut (November 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_11_011950.php

• “Count Dracula.” PopMatters (30 October 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/count-dracula/

• “The Man Who Melted by Jack Dann.” PopMatters (2 Oct 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/the-man-who-melted-by-jack-dann/

• “Way More West: New and Selected Poems by Edward Dorn.” Bookslut (October 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_10_011779.php

• “A Thief of Strings by Donald Revell.” Bookslut (October 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_10_011777.php

• “An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England_, by Brock Clarke.” PopMatters (23 Sept. 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/an-arsonists-guide-to-writers-homes-in-new-england-by-brock-clarke/

• “Space Walk by Tom Sleigh.” Bookslut (September 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_09_011643.php

• “Standing in Line for the Beast by Jason Bredle.” Bookslut (September 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_09_011641.php

• “With Speed and Violence by Fred Pearce.” PopMatters (23 Jul 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/with-speed-and-violence-by-fred-pearce/

• “Otherwise Normal People by Aurelia C. Scott.” PopMatters (11 Jul 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/otherwise-normal-people-by-aurelia-c-scott/

• “The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden.” PopMatters (2 Jul 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/the-dangerous-book-for-boys-by-conn-iggulden-and-hal-iggulden/

• “Glean by Joshua Kryah.” Bookslut (July 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_07_011506.php

• “Theory of Orange by Rachel M. Simon.” Bookslut (July 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_07_011500.php

• “Freud’s Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis by Brenda Maddox_.” Bookslut (July 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2007_07_011355.php

• “Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated by Carson Cistulli.” Bookslut (July 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_07_011342.php

• “Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell by Bruce Eric Kaplan.” PopMatters (13 Jun 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/edmund-and-rosemary-go-to-hell-by-bruce-eric-kaplan/

• “The Case Against Happiness by Jean-Paul Pecqueur.” Bookslut (June 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_06_011226.php

• “Devils in the Sugar Shop by Timothy Schaffert.” PopMatters (16 May 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/devils-in-the-sugar-shop-by-timothy-schaffert/

• “Doing Nothing by Tom Lutz.” PopMatters (8 May 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/doing-nothing-by-tom-lutz/

• “Smartbomb by Heather Chaplin and Aaron Ruby.” PopMatters (3 May 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/smartbomb-by-heather-chaplin-and-aaron-ruby/

• “Silence Fell: Poems by Josephine Dickinson.” Bookslut (May 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_05_011090.php

• “Boomsday by Christopher Buckley.” PopMatters (29 April 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/boomsday-by-christopher-buckley/

• “Riddled with Life by Marlene Zuk.” PopMatters (2 Apr 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/riddled-with-life-by-marlene-zuk/

• “Beholding Eye: Poems by Grace Bauer.” Bookslut (April 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_04_010909.php

• “Radish King by Rebecca Loudon.” Bookslut (April 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_04_010908.php

• “Working Stiff by Grant Stoddard.” PopMatters (18 Mar 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/working-stiff-by-grant-stoddard/

• “The Survival of the Sickest by Dr Sharon Moalem with Jonathan Prince.” PopMatters (14 Mar 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/survival-of-the-sickest-by-dr-sharon-moalem-with-jonathan-prince/

• “The Lazy Boys by Carl Shuker.” PopMatters (4 Mar 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/the-lazy-boys-by-carl-shuker/

• “A Map by a Dim Lamp by Ron Starr.” Bookslut (March 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_03_010778.php

• “The Perfect Thing by Steven Levy.” PopMatters (26 Feb 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/the-perfect-thing-by-steven-levy/

• “The Rhythm of the Road by Albyn Leah Hall.” PopMatters (18 Feb 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/the-rhythm-of-the-road-by-albyn-leah-hall/

• “Bee Thousand by Marc Woodworth.” PopMatters (13 Feb 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/bee-thousand-by-marc-woodworth/

• “My Reality Check Bounced by Jason Ryan Dorsey.” PopMatters (4 Feb. 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/my-reality-check-bounced-by-jason-ryan-dorsey/

• “On Love and Death by Patrick Süskind.” Bookslut (February 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2007_02_010632.php

• “Cultures of Fetishism by Louise J. Kaplan.” Bookslut (February 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2007_02_010627.php

• “Lizzie Borden in Love: Poems in Women’s Voices by Juliana Baggott.” Bookslut (February 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_02_010626.php

• “Words that Work by Dr. Frank Luntz.” PopMatters (22 Jan 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/words-that-work-by-dr-frank-luntz/

• “Song of the Crow by Layne Maheu.” PopMatters (8 Jan 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/song-of-the-crow-by-layne-maheu/

• “Exile by Richard North Patterson.” PopMatters (1 January 2007): http://www.popmatters.com/review/exile-by-richard-north-patterson/

• “Black Box by Erin Belieu.” Bookslut (January 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_01_010492.php

• “Horse Latitudes and The End of the Poem by Paul Muldoon.” Bookslut (January 2007): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2007_01_010474.php

• “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” PopMatters (14 Dec 2006): http://www.popmatters.com/post/read-the-omnivores-dilemma/

• “What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts?” _PopMatters (12 Dec. 2006): http://www.popmatters.com/post/read-whats-liberal-about-the-liberal-arts/

• “The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis.” PopMatters (5 Dec 2006): http://www.popmatters.com/post/read-the-seminar-of-jacques-lacan-book-xvii-the-other-side-of-psychoanalysi/

• “Lost Girls by Alan Moore.” PopMatters (30 Nov 2006): http://www.popmatters.com/post/read-lost-girls-by-alan-moore/

• “Golem Song by Marc Estrin.” PopMatters (19 Nov 2006): http://www.popmatters.com/review/golem-song-by-marc-estrin/

• “Apostrophe by Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry.” PopMatters (13 Nov 2006): http://www.popmatters.com/review/apostrophe-by-bill-kennedy-and-darren-wershler-henry/

• “Poems I Wrote While Watching TV by Travis Jeppesen.” Bookslut (November 2006): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2006_11_010209.php

• “Horror Vacui by Thomas Heise.” Bookslut (November 2006): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2006_11_010208.php

• “In Defense of Hypocrisy: Picking Sides in the War on Virtue by Jeremy Lott.” Bookslut (November 2006): http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2006_11_010195.php

• “Binge by Barrett Seaman.” PopMatters (9 Oct 2006): http://www.popmatters.com/review/binge-by-barrett-seaman/

• “Falling Room by Eli Hastings.” PopMatters (4 October 2006): http://www.popmatters.com/review/falling-room-by-eli-hastings/

• “The Book of Jobs: Poems by Kathryn Maris.” Bookslut (October 2006): http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2006_10_010043.php

• “My Freshman Year by Rebekah Nathan.” PopMatters (28 Sept 2006): http://www.popmatters.com/review/my-freshman-year-by-rebekah-nathan/

• “JPod by Douglas Coupland.” PopMatters (3 August 2006): http://www.popmatters.com/review/jpod-by-douglas-coupland/

Miscellany:

• “Does Microsoft Word Have Literary Judgment?” PopMatters 25 Sept. 2007: http://www.popmatters.com/post/does-microsoft-word-have-literary-judgment/

• “In Memoriam: Sterling E. Lanier.” PopMatters 11 July 2007: http://www.popmatters.com/post/in-memoriam-sterling-e-lanier/

• “Spring . . . when a young man’s thoughts lightly turn to Trollope.” PopMatters 16 May 2007: http://www.popmatters.com/post/spring-when-a-young-mans-thoughts-lightly-turn-to-trollope/

• “Reading and Time.” PopMatters 8 May 2007: http://www.popmatters.com/post/reading-and-time/

• “Things That Must Stop.” PopMatters 26 April 2007: http://www.popmatters.com/post/things-that-must-stop/

• “LibraryThing.com.” PopMatters 26 Nov 2006: http://www.popmatters.com/post/read-librarythingcom/