Jean E. Graham
Professor of English
Department of English, Bliss Hall 230
The College of New Jersey (Post Office Box 7718, Ewing, New Jersey, 08628)
Phone: (609) 771-3233
Email: graham@tcnj.edu

EDUCATION

Case Western Reserve University: Ph.D., English Language and Literature
The University of Akron: M.A., B.A., English Language and Literature

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS*

*Some of these publications are in databases accessible through TCNJ’s Roscoe West Library, while others may be accessed (by the TCNJ community) in the Digital Repository: https://dr.tcnj.edu/

Graham, Jean E.  “Austen and ‘The Advantage of Height.’” Persuasions 20 (summer 1999).  http://www.jasna.org/pol01/index.html.

Graham, Jean E.  “‘Ay me’: Selfishness and Empathy in ‘Lycidas.’” Early Modern Literary Studies: A Journal of 16th- and 17th-Century English Literature 2 (Dec. 1996).   http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html.

Graham, Jean E. “Difference in Narnia: Giants, Dwarfs, and Others,” Children’s Literature, volume 52 (2024): 118-35.

Graham, Jean E. “Gender Fluidity and Violence in Edward Herbert’s ‘Echo to a Rock,’” Early Modern Literary Studies 23, no. 2 (2024). https://journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/EMLS/issue/view/27

Graham, Jean E. “The Green Apocalypse and Empathy for Vegetal Life.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 51 part 2 (July 2024). 221-37.

Graham, Jean E.  “‘High Delights that satisfy all Appetites’: Thomas Traherne and Gender.” Early Modern Literary Studies Vol. 20, Issue 1 (2018). https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/emls/article/view/314.

Graham, Jean E.  “Holodeck Masquing: Early Modern Genre Meets Star Trek.” Journal of Popular Culture 34 (fall 2000): 21-27.

Graham, Jean E.  “John Milton’s Comus in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho.” The Explicator 72, 2 (May 2014): 97-100.

Graham, Jean E. “Katherine Philips and Churching.”  The Explicator 70 (August 2012): 161-63.

Graham, Jean E.  “The Performing Heir in Jonson’s Jacobean Masques.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 41 (spring 2001): 381-98.

Graham, Jean E.  “‘Seventy Seven’ in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist.” The Explicator 70 (December 2012): 256-59.

Graham, Jean E. “The Talking Beasts as Adam and Eve: Lewis and the Complexity of ‘Dominion.’” Mythlore 38 (fall/winter 2019): 115-29.  https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/

Graham, Jean E.  “‘Tell All Men’: Bunyan and the Gendering of Discourse.” Bunyan Studies 11 (2003/2004): 8-22.

Graham, Jean E.  “‘Trying to Give the Girl a Chance’: Gaps and Silences in the Novels of Jean Rhys.” Jean Rhys Review 10 (1999): 1-12. Republished online at https://jeanrhysreview.org/.

Graham, Jean E.  “Virgin Ears: Silence, Deafness, and Chastity in Milton’s Maske.” Milton Studies 36 (1998): 1-17.

Graham, Jean E.  “Vocal Women, Silent Woman: Gender in the Noble Numbers.”  ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 25 (August 2012): 154-60.

Graham, Jean E.   “Women, Sex, and Power: Circe and Lilith in Narnia,” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 29 (spring/summer 2004): 32-44. Republished in Children’s Literature Review, Vol. 173.

Graham, Jean E.  “Who ‘laid him in a manger’?  Biblical Women in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne,” Explorations in Renaissance Culture 41 (2015): 56-74.

Graham, Jean E.  “‘Wo’is me’ and ‘Ah my deare’: Parenthetical Metacommentary in Donne and Herbert,” The John Donne Journal 33 (2014): 165-201.

Forthcoming in 2024:

The Sentient Tree in Speculative Fiction (from Palgrave MacMillan)

Forthcoming in 2025:

“‘Black Lord Herbert’ and the Construction of Race” (in Studies in Philology)