M. C. Jones, Ph.D.

University of North Texas, Dept. of English                                                 

P.O. Box 311307, Denton TX 76203-3827                                           

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

Education             Ph.D. in English. University of North Texas, Denton, TX. August 1999.

                                    Dissertation: Night of no Exile. Director: Bruce Bond.

Areas of specialization: Creative Writing / Poetry, Contemporary American Literature.

Other areas of interest: Rhetoric and Composition, ESL, World Literature, Technical Writing, Creative Non-fiction..

 

Master’s of Arts, English. Université François Rabelais, Tours, France. 1993. Master’s Thesis: Reading Steven Millhauser: Toward a Textual Hierarchy. Areas of specialization: Contemporary American Literature, Linguistics applied to Literature.

 

Bachelor’s of Arts, English. Université François Rabelais, Tours, France. 1992. Areas of specialization: Contemporary American Literature, Science Fiction, Pop Culture, Translation.

 

 

Publications       Poetry:

Chapbook:

Love Song, with Mass Extinction. Oil Hill Press, Wichita KS, Jan. 2003. Nominated for a 2003 Pushcart Prize. Reprinted in 2004.

 

                                   

Periodicals:

·      “Why the Faith Healer’s Granddaughter. . .” Epicenter: A Literary Periodical (Forthcoming.)

·      “Cosmology.” (Second publication.) Poetry for the Masses. (Forthcoming.)

·      “Salt.” Envision. (Forthcoming.)

·      “From a Lost Sketchbook.” Terminus. (Forthcoming.)

·      “Histogenesis.” The Southeast Review. 24:1-2 (2006): 25.

·      “How Voting Came to French Women.” New Delta Review. 22:2 (2005): 108-09

·      “et ego in Arcardia.” Portland Review. 52: 2 (2005): 118-19.

·      “The Anatomy of Nightmares.” Portland Review. 52: 2 (2005): 120.

·      “A Natural History of the Broken World.” Branches. 4:2 (2005). 16 Oct. 2005. <http://www.branchesquarterly.com/4.2/Binder2.pdf>.

·      “somatic.” The DMQ Review. May 2005. 16 Oct. 2005.  <http://www.dmqreview.com/May05/index2.html>.

·      “my mother learns how to fly.” The DMQ Review. May 2005. 16 Oct. 2005. <http://www.dmqreview.com/May05/index2.html>. Nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize.

·      “Transcontinental.” Quarter After Eight. (Forthcoming, Dec. 2005 or early 2006.)

·      “The Link.” Three Candles. 27 Jan. 2004. 1 Feb. 2005. <www.threecandles.org>

·      “Alba: A Wish.” Three Candles. 27 Jan. 2004. 1 Feb. 2005. <www.threecandles.org>

·      “early time haunts the worm.” Three Candles. 27 Jan. 2004. 1 Feb. 2005.

      <www.threecandles.org>

·      “This bridge is cursed.” The Denver Quarterly 39.2 (2004): 62-63.

·      “fourteen things to share with you.” The Denver Quarterly 39.2 (2004): 61.

·      “One Art.” (Second publication.) Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women 23.1 (2006): 69.

·      “One Art.” Karamu. 19.2 (2005): 78.

·      “I love a mink.” Prairie Schooner 77.4 (2003): 124-25.

·      “fire blossoms indigo deep you touch.” Prairie Schooner 77.4 (2003): 125-26.

·      “Cape Cod.” Valparaiso Poetry Review III.2 (2002). 5 Mar. 2002. 20 Mar. 2002.

      <http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/jonescape.html>

·      “Eve of Thanksgiving.” The Underwood Review 3.1 (2001): 91.

·      “almost there.” Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship 13.2

(2001): 109.

·      “Divorce, II.” The Listening Eye 31 (2001): 36

·      “Si par une nuit d’hiver un voyageur.” The Listening Eye  31 (2001): 34-35

·      “Skirmish.” The Antioch Review  59:3 (2001): 580.

·      “Progress.” Sulphur River Literary Review XVIII.2 (2002): 135-38

·      “The Next Day.” Sulphur River Literary Review XVIII.2 (2002): 132.

·      “The mind is a pill box.” Sulphur River Literary Review XVIII.2 (2002): 133.

·      “Diving off Black Island.” Sulphur River Literary Review XVIII.2 (2002): 134.

·      “Elegy for my Muse.” Passages North 22.1 (2001): 152.

·      “All Saints’ Day.” Prairie Schooner 76:2 (2002): 42-44.

·      “The Trial by Existence.” Prairie Schooner 76:2 (2002): 41-42.

·      “Grade School.” Northwest Review 38.3 (2000): 26.

·      “September.” Northwest Review 38.3 (2000): 25.

·      “October Sleep.” Poem 83.1 (2000): 57.

·      “Echocardiogram.” Coal City Review 15 (October 2000): 28.

·      “Still Life with Fortune Cookies.” Midwest Poetry Review 21.4 (2000): 23.

·       “Cosmology.” Atlanta Review 6.2 (2000): 104.

 

 

Installation:

“Histogenesis,” “Continental Drift,” “From a lost sketchbook,” and “This bridge is cursed” accepted by Jean Roelke and Mark Monroe for Fun Time Art and Poetry Surprise, a traveling art and poetry vending machine. Mixed media (metal, plastic, paper,  ink, paint). Ongoing project started in April 2003. Venues: University of North Texas (Denton, TX), Austin College (Sherman, TX), four art galleries in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, other prospective venues. Sample on display at <http://artemis.austincollege.edu/ acad/art/galleries/Random%20projects/randomprojectpage.htm>.

 

 

Literary Criticism / Essays:

“The poetics of Deferment.” Sulphur River Literary Review XVIII.2 (2002): 139-40.

 

“Donald Revell,” article for Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Kimmelman, Burt, ed. New York: Facts on File, 2005. 417-18.

 

Translations:

Poems:

Excerpts from René Guy Cadou’s collection, Hélène, ou le règne végétal.  Translated in collaboration with Todd R. Hall.

·      “I Have Always Lived,” “The Toll Gate,” and “Those Dogs That Dream.”  The Spoon River Poetry Review. 30:2 (2005): 12-14.

·      “He Who by Chance Enters” and “Four Love Poems for Hélène.” The Adirondack Review 4.2 (2003). 20 April 2004 <www.adirondackreview.com>.

·      “To a Horse,” “Hélène or the Vegetable Kingdom,” “June 17, 1943,” “Such Strange Sweetness.” The International Poetry Review. 30.2 (2004): 32-39.  

 

Books and Articles:

Book: La ville oú je t’aime, a translation of Li-Young Lee’s The City In Which I Love You (BOA, 1990). Co-translator: Antoine Cazé, Ph.D., Université of Orléans-La Source, France. (Orléans, France: Le Pli, November 2003.)

 

Endnote translations for Suzanne Green and David Caudle’s scholarly edition of Kate Chopin’s novel, At Fault. Knoxville: The U of Tennessee Press, 2001.

 

Translated François Cheng’s “Lacan et la pensée chinoise.” Lacan, l’écrit, l’image. L’école de la cause freudienne. Paris: Flammarion, 2000. Used by Lidan Lin for her article, “The Legacy and the Future of Orientalism,” published in Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming.

 

Translated from French/ abstracted six scholarly articles for Suzanne Green and David Caudle’s book, Kate Chopin: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999.

 

 

Poetry                     Workshop moderator for “Making Artists’ Books.” 2002 AWP Conference, 

Readings/             New Orleans, LA, March 09, 2002.  

Workshops                

Participant: Li-Young Lee’s poetry workshop, Literary Arts Festival, The

                                    Milton Center, Newman University, Wichita, KS, Feb. 16-18, 2001.

                                   

Participant: Carolyn Forché’s poetry workshop, Literary Arts Festival, The

                                    Milton Center, Newman University, Wichita KS, Feb. 18-20, 2000.

 

 

Work in                   Borrowed Cities. Book. Collection of poems. (Manuscript in progress.)

Progress               

Mischief: A Memoir. Book. Creative nonfiction. (Manuscript in progress.)

 

Love Song, with Mass Extinction. Book. Collection of poems. (Manuscript in circulation.)

 

Hélène, or the Vegetable Kingdom, a translation of René Guy Cadou’s Hélène, ou le règne végétal (Seghers: Paris, 1952). Book. Assistants: Todd Hall, M.A., and Rachel Yeatts, Ph.D. (Completed. Manuscript in circulation.)

 

 

Honors &               Creative Writing / Visual Arts Awards:

Awards                   Finalist in the 2006 Washington Square Review Contest for “First Lessons in Geography.”  (Judge: David Trinidad.)

 

Accepted for listing in Poets & Writers’ Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers. Spring 2005.

 

Finalist in the 2003 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (Nimrod, University of Tulsa, OK). May 2003.

 

With co-author Jean Roelke, Honorable Mention in the first Biennal

Friends’ Award Competition for Artist’s Books, organized by the Friends of the University of North Texas Libraries, January 20, 2000, for Japanese Screen with Bilingual Haiku Sequence (wood, velum, ink, acrylic paint).

 

UNT President’s 1999 Creative Writing Award recipient.

 

Finalist in the 1999 Writers at Work competition (Associated Writing Programs, Fairfax, VA).

 

Semi-finalist in the 1999 Discovery / The Nation competition.

 

Finalist in the 1998 Ruth Lily Poetry Fellowship competition (Poetry, The Modern Poetry Association).

 

 

Scholarly and Academic Awards:

Listed in Velazquez, Rita C., ed. Directory of American Scholars, Vol. 2, 10^th ed. New York: Gale Group, 2002. Listed again in the 2004 edition.

 

English Department Doctoral Program Award, University of North Texas, 1998-99.

 

Professing Woman Award, University of North Texas, Spring 1998.

 

Mary Patchell Memorial Award, University of North Texas, Spring 1997.

 

Certificate of Recognition, Student Support Services/Discovery, University of North Texas, April 22, 1996.

 

 

Teaching               Lecturer, English Department, University of North Texas,

Experience           Fall 2001-present.

 

Adjunct, English Department, University of North Texas,

Fall 1999- Summer 2001.

 

Teaching Fellow, English Department, University of North Texas,

Fall 1994-Summer 1999.

 

French Instructor, Language Department, University of North Texas,

Fall 1993-Spring 1994.

 

 

Courses                 Poetry Workshop.

Taught                    World Literature Survey I: Antiquity to Renaissance.

World Literature Survey II: Renaissance to Present.

American Literature to 1865

American Literature since 1865

Freshman Composition I: Personal Essay, Autobiography.

Freshman Composition II: Academic Writing. Writing across the Curriculum. Writing about Literature.        

Freshman Composition, Special Topic: “Monsters and Us” (Victorian and Twentieth-Century Novels and Films)

Computer-Assisted Freshman Composition I and II.

ESL (Composition/Grammar, Technical Writing, Literature Surveys).

Technical Writing.

Developmental / Remedial Writing.

 

 

Service                   Faculty Advisor of the North Texas Review (Sept. 2002 ­ June 2003)

and Other

Experience           Editor-in-Chief of the North Texas Review, Fall 1998-Spring 1999. Also in charge of the North Texas Review Reading Series, Fall 1998-Spring 1999.

 

                                    Poetry Editor of the North Texas Review, Fall 1997-Spring 1998.

 

With Jean Roelke, operate Basilisk Press in Denton, TX. Basilisk Press publishes chapbooks of poems and visual work, as well as artists’ books. (Started Jan. 2000.)

 

 

Associations      MLA, AWP, ALTA.

 

 

References        Bruce Bond, University of North Texas, Denton, TX.  (940) 565-0849. 

                                                 bond@unt.edu

                                    Corey Marks, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. (940) 565-2126.

                                    coreymarks@att.net

                                   

Marjorie Stelmach, Washington University in St. Louis, Campus Box 1117, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899. mstelmach@netzero.net.

 

Kathryn Raign, University of North Texas, Denton, TX (940) 565-4665.

kraign@facstaff.cas.unt.edu

 

                                    John Jenkinson, Butler Community College, 901 S. Haverhill Road, El Dorado, 
		                                  KS 67042. (316) 618-9833. jjenkinson@butlercc.edu.  e, 901 S. Haverhill Road, El Dorado, 

                                    KS 67042. (316) 618-9833. jjenkinson@butlercc.edu.