Dr Catherine JONES
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+44 (0)1224 273759
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c.a.jones@abdn.ac.uk
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Taylor, B9
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MA, PhD (Cambridge)
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Biography
Catherine Jones taught at the University of Cambridge and the National University of Ireland, Galway, before taking up her current post at the University of Aberdeen in 2000. She has also been a visiting scholar at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, USA (in 2004). From 2010 to 2012 she served as vice-president of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society for a two-year term; she continues on its Board. In 2012, she became a council member of the Association for Medical Humanities.
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Research Interests
Catherine Jones's research is primarily on the literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is particularly interested in Romanticism (including Scottish, Irish and transatlantic Romanticism); the Scottish Enlightenment and its legacy; the history of the Atlantic world; literature and the other arts; and literature and medicine.
Her first book, Literary Memory, published in 2003, explores the relationship of memory to writing in Scotland and America, focusing on the work of Walter Scott. It shows how Scott’s authorship was crucially enabled by models of memory circulating in the late Enlightenment Scottish culture that shaped him and that his own Waverley Novels in turn helped to transform.
She has also published articles and book chapters on other aspects of Scott's work (such as his links to the Scottish genre painter David Wilkie), and on Scottish literature and culture more broadly (such as travel writing from 1707 to 1918). In addition, she is coeditor (with David Duff) of the collection of essays Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic, published in 2007, which contributed to the evolution of a comparative approach to British and Irish Romanticism.
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Current Research
Catherine Jones is currently completing a book on the interaction of literature and music in the Atlantic world in the age of Enlightenment and Romanticism (Literature and Music in the Atlantic World, 1767-1867 [Edinburgh University Press, 2014]). This book focuses on the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures with primary attention to Europe and North America.
Key features:
* The first study devoted to literature and music in the Atlantic world;
* Includes detailed examination of works by canonical and lesser known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American writers and composers;
* Shows the intertwining of European and American cultural forms;
* Integrates the history of music and the history of subjectivity.
Catherine Jones is also developing a new research project on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physician writers. She recently completed an essay on the place of Edinburgh medicine in the autobiographical writings of the American physician Benjamin Rush for the collection Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, edited by David Shuttleton and Megan Coyer (Rodopi, 2013). She is preparing an essay on 'Writer-Physicians' for The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism, edited by David Duff (Oxford University Press, 2014), and an essay on 'Tobias Smollett, Travel Writing and Medical Botany' for the collection The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture, edited by Ralph McLean, Kenneth Simpson, and Ronnie Young (Bucknell University Press, 2014).
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Collaborations
The STAR Project (on Scotland's Transatlantic Relations), based at the University of Edinburgh.
Scottish Medical Humanities Research Network, supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Research Grants
Catherine Jones has received research grants for her work on literature and music in the Atlantic world from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (2003, 2008 and 2012) and the British Academy (2004-6).
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Teaching Responsibilities
EL5032: Theory of the Novel (convenor)
EL40HP: Literature and Medicine (convenor)
EL30XR: Romanticism
ME33LM: Literature and Medicine (convenor)
ME33LP: Literature and Medicine: Project (convenor)
EL35QL: Scotland into the Modern World
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External Responsibilities
Board Member, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
Council Member, Association for Medical Humanities
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Admin Responsibilities
Examinations Officer, English, Film and Linguistics
Programme Coordinator, Intercalated BSc in Medical Humanities
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Supervision of Research Students
Catherine Jones welcomes inquiries about postgraduate research in literature of the eighteenth-century, Romantic, and nineteenth-century periods; in Scottish, Irish and American literature; in literature and the other arts; and in medical humanities.
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The Centre for Medical Humanities
Catherine Jones is Joint Coordinator (with Sarah Ross, School of Medicine) of the University of Aberdeen's Centre for Medical Humanities, which was established in 2009 to provide a focus for the development of research, teaching, CPD, and public engagement activities in the field of medical humanities.
For further information see:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/medical-humanities/
In 2013 the Centre for Medical Humanities is hosting the annual conference of the Association for Medical Humanities from 8-10 July on the theme of 'Global Medical Humanities'.
For further information about the conference, including details of the call for papers, see:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/medical-humanities-2013/
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Publications
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- Jones, CA. (2011). 'Romantic Opera in Translation: Carl Maria von Weber and Washington Irving'. Translation and Literature, vol 20, no. 1, pp. 29-47.
[Online] DOI: 10.3366/tal.2011.0004 - Jones, CA. (2010). 'The Transatlantic Beethoven Hero'. Symbiosis, vol 14, no. 1, pp. 103-122.
- Jones, CA. (2009). 'Madame de Staël and Scotland: Corinne, Ossian and the Science of Nations'. Romanticism, vol 15, no. 3, pp. 239-253.
[Online] DOI: 10.3366/E1354991X09000750 - Jones, CA. (2007). 'James Beattie and the Ethics of Music'. British Journal for Eighteenth -Century Studies, vol 30, no. 1, pp. 55-71.
[Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-0208.2007.tb00325.x - Jones, CA. (2000). 'Hawthorne's Scotland: Memory and Imagination'. Symbiosis, vol 4, pp. 133-51.
- Jones, CA. (1999). ''Our partial Attachments: Tom Moore and 1798''. Eighteenth Century Ireland Iris an da Chultur, vol 13, pp. 24-43.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings
Chapters
- Jones, CA. (in press). 'Benjamin Rush, Edinburgh Medicine and the Rise of Physician Autobiography'. D Shuttleton & M Coyer (eds), in: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture. Rodopi.
- Jones, CA. (2012). 'History and Historiography'. F Robertson (ed.), in: The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott. Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
- Jones, CA. (2007). 'Scott, Wilkie, and Romantic Art'. D Duff & C Jones (eds), in: Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic. Bucknell University Press, pp. 208-235.
- Jones, CA. (2006). '"Magic Numbers and Persuasive Sound": Musical Enlightenment in Revolutionary America'. S Manning & P France (eds), in: Enlightenment and Emancipation. Buchnell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, PA, USA, pp. 174-192.
- Jones, CA. (2006). 'Travel Writing, 1707-1918'. I Brown, TO Clancy, S Manning & MGH Pittock (eds), in: The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature : Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918) Volume 2. vol. 2, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, pp. 277-285.
- Jones, CA. (2000). 'Scott's The Heart of Midlothian and the Disordered Memory'. M Campbell, J Labbe & S Shuttleworth (eds), in: Memory and Memorials, 1798-1914. Routledge, pp. 30-45.
Contributions to Conferences
Papers
- Jones, CA. 'Operatic Remediations of The Bride of Lammermoor'. Paper presented at Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society annual conference on the theme of 'Media and Mediation', South Carolina, United States, 12/04/12 - 15/04/12,.
Books and Reports
Books
- Duff, DAS. & Jones, CA. (2007). 'Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic'. Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, PA, USA.
- Jones, CA. (2003). 'Literary Memory: Scott's Waverley Novels and the Psychology of Narrative'. Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, PA, USA.
Other Contributions
- Jones, CA. (2003). 'Hermione Ballantyne (in Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period: database)'.
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