Jean Lee Cole is an Associate Professor at Loyola University Maryland who specializes in 19th and early 20th century American literature. Her research focuses on the comic sensibility in American culture between 1895-1920 and how visual technologies evolved literary style. She has published several books and articles on these topics. Her CV provides details of her education, current projects, publications, teaching experience, presentations, and awards.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Jean Lee Cole • Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland
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Department of English • 4501 North Charles Street • Baltimore, Maryland 21210
e-mail: jlcole@loyola.edu • phone: (410) 530-3242 • fax: (410) 617-2802
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Department of English, 2000.
M.A., University of Texas at Austin, Department of English, 1993.
B.A., Carleton College, cum laude, 1991.
CURRENT PROJECTS
How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920.
What Henry James Saw: Visual Technologies and the Evolution of Literary Style.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity (Rutgers
2002).
Articles:
“A New Digital Divide: C21 Editorial Practice and Accessibility,” Legacy, Spring 2016.
“Rising from the Gutter: Rudolph Block, the Comic Strip, and the Ghetto Fiction of
Bruno Lessing,” MELUS, Spring 2016.
“An Accidental Activist,” solicited essay for The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau
Studies, 2015.
“‘Theresa’ and Blake: Mobility and Resistance in Antebellum African American
Serialized Fiction,” Callaloo, Winter 2011.
“Mobility and Resistance in Antebellum African American Serialized Fiction,” in
Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction, ed. Patricia Okker (Routledge 2011).
“The Hideous Obscure of Henry James,” American Periodicals (special issue on visual
culture), Fall 2010.
“‘Information Wanted’: Julia C. Collins, F.E.W. Harper, and The Christian Recorder,”
African American Review (solicited for special issue on Julia C. Collins’s The Curse of
Caste, Winter 2006; this issue was the winner of Council of Editors of Learned
Journals’ Best Special Issue Award for 2007).
“The History of the Book in the American Literature Classroom: On the Fly and On the
Cheap,” in Teaching the History of the Book, ed. Ann Hawkins (Pickering and Chatto,
2006).
“Coloring Books: Forms of Turn-of-the-Century American Literature,” Papers of the
Bibliographic Society of America, December 2003.

2. Scholarly editions:
Freedom’s Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner. Annotated
edition with critical introduction (West Virginia 2013).
Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays, edited and annotated with Charles Mitchell, with
critical introduction (Rutgers 2008).
From Luababa to Polk County: Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress, edited
with Charles Mitchell. Baltimore: Apprentice House, 2005.
A Japanese Nightingale by Winnifred Eaton and Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long:
Two Orientalist Texts, edited with Maureen Honey, with critical introduction.
Rutgers University Press, 2002.
Public Scholarship:
“Baltimore Bookstores, Then and Now,” part of the MuseWeb Foundation Be Here:
Baltimore project, 2016.
Other editions, encyclopedia entries, and short pieces:
“The Marriage of Okiku-San” by Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), Legacy, Summer
2004.
“Newly Recovered Works by Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton): A Prospectus and
Checklist,” Legacy, Summer 2004.
Entry for Winnifred Eaton, Asian American Short-Story Writers: A Bibliography,
Greenwood Press, 2003.
The Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive, University of Virginia Electronic Text Center, 2004.
Now available at http://jeanleecole.wordpress.com.
Excerpt of The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity,
published in The Women’s Review of Books, July 2002.
Student Guide to First-Year Writing, 2nd ed. Co-authored and co-edited with Sri
Mukherjee, Ph.D. (McGraw-Hill, Custom College Series, 1995).
INVITED ADDRESSES:
“Storming the Ivory Tower: Undergraduate Research in the Humanities,” keynote
address, Loyola University Maryland Undergraduate Student Research and
Scholarship Colloquium, April 2015.
“Designs that Bind: Racializing the Books of Winnifred Eaton, Charles Chesnutt, and
Paul Laurence Dunbar,” Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada, March
2007.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“An Accidental Activist: Rediscovering Thoreau after the Death of Freddie Gray,”
American Literature Association, May 26, 2016, San Francisco, CA.
“The Comic Sensibility in American Culture,” panel on C19 and Graphic Storytelling, C19
biennial conference, March 17, 2016, State College, PA.

3. “A New Digital Divide: C21 Editorial Practice and Accessibility,” Society for the Study of
American Women Writers (SSAWW) triennial conference, Nov. 6, 2015.
“How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility and Immigrant Fiction,” panel on
Envisioning Modernity: America’s Urban Centers, March 23, 2013, Northeast
Modern Language Association, Boston.
Roundtable participant, “Cultivating Undergraduate Research,” panel hosted by the
Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), May 28, 2010, American Literature
Association, San Francisco.
“Transcending Literature through Service / Transcending Service through Literature,”
Panel on Critical Pedagogy, Service Learning, and Nineteenth-Century Literature, 28
December 2007, Modern Language Association, Chicago.
“A Rationale of Recovery: Editing Zora Neale Hurston,” 28 December 2006, Modern
Language Association, Philadelphia.
“The Christian Recorder,” May 27, 2006, American Literature Association, San Francisco,
California.
“‘Information Wanted’: Julia C. Collins’s The Curse of Caste, F.E.W. Harper’s Minnie’s
Sacrifice, and The Christian Recorder,” May 28, 2005, American Literature
Association, Boston, Massachusetts.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, 2007-present.
Courses taught: The Novel in America, Gender in American Literature 1890-1910,
Visualizing the 1890s, The Civil War in American Literature, The American West,
Imagining Race (course on literature of racial passing), American Literature to 1914,
core courses in American literature and literary analysis.
Assistant Professor, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, 2001-2007.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Co-editor, American Periodicals, 2015-.
President, Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP), 2013-2015. Vice-
president, 2012-2013. Board member, 2009-present.
Co-founder and editor, Proto: An Undergraduate Humanities Journal, 2010-2015.
Manuscript reviewer, Legacy (publication of the Society for the Study of American
Women Writers), MELUS (Multiethnic Literatures of the United States), Temple
University Press, Rutgers University Press.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Faculty Director of Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship, July 2016- .
Co-founder and moderator, ToRaD (faculty Thinkspace on Race and Diversity),
moderated Moodle discussion and faculty organization space, 2016.
Advisory Board, Messina Living/Learning Program for First-Year Students, 2011-2012,
2015-2016.
Board of Rank and Tenure, 2011-2014.
Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Grade Appeal Policy, 2009-2010 and 2010-2011.

4. Founder and program director, minor program in American Studies, 2006-2014.
Core Adviser, 2002-2014, 2015– .
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on the Honor Code, 2004-2005.
Moderator, Diversity Reading Group, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2015.
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
Loyola University Maryland Technology Research Grant, 2016-2017.
Loyola University Maryland Senior Sabbatical, 2014-2015, 2007-2008.
Loyola College Kolvenbach Fellow, Spring 2007.
Loyola College Service-Learning Pedagogy Grant, Fall 2005.
Loyola College Center for the Humanities Junior Faculty Sabbatical, Spring 2005.
Nominated for NEH Summer Stipend by Loyola College, 2005.
Summer Research Grant, Loyola College Center for the Humanities: 2001, 2006, 2015.
Student Assistant Grant, Loyola College Center for the Humanities: Spring 2016, Spring
2006, Summer 2006, Spring 2005, Summer 2004, Summer 2003.
Team Teaching Grant, Loyola College Center for the Humanities, 2003-2004, with Janet
Headley (Dept. of Art History), for course: Art and Literature of the American West.
James Davis Scholarship, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, 2003.