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/

“Austen and ‘The Advantage of Height.’” Persuasions 20 (summer 1999). http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol20no1/.

“‘Ay me’: Selfishness and Empathy in ‘Lycidas.’” Early Modern Literary Studies 2 (Dec. 1996). http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-3/02-3toc.html.

“’High Delights that satisfy all Appetites’: The Devotional Poetry of Thomas Traherne.”  Early Modern Literary Studies 20 (2018).  https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/emls/article/view/314

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

“Katherine Philips and ‘Churching.'” The Explicator 70 (August 2012): 161-63.

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

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

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

“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/

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

“‘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 http://jeanrhysreview.org/

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

“Vocal Women, Silent Woman: Gender in the Noble Numbers.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 20 (August 2012): 154-60.

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

“‘Wo’is me’ and ‘Ah my deare’: Parenthetical Metacommentary in Donne and Herbert.” The John Donne Journal 33 (2016): 165-201.

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

Forthcoming in 2024:

“Difference in Narnia: Giants, Dwarfs, and Others” (in Children’s Literature)

“Gender Fluidity and Violence in Edward Herbert’s ‘Echo to a Rock’” (in Early Modern Literary Studies)

“The Green Apocalypse and Empathy for Vegetal Life” (in Science Fiction Studies)

Forthcoming in 2025:

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