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Dr Catherine Jones

Lecturer

MA, PhD (Cambridge)

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Telephone: +44 (0)1224 273759
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Address: Taylor, B9

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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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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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