Graduate Instructor

office: 84 McReynolds
phone: 573-882-0681
email: jscwvf@mizzou.edu
office hours: By appointment

Research and teaching areas:
Ecocriticism, literature and landscape,
the history of the Pastoral tradition
from Theocritus and Virgil on,
Romantic poetry, formalism; G. M.
Hopkins; Victorianism;
Latin scholarship

Jonas Cope

Jonas Cope is a graduate student specializing in Romanticism and sub-specializing in Victorianism. His Master's Thesis, a Freudian study of George Eliot's novel Middlemarch, was entitled: "Keeping the ‘Germinating Grain Away From the Light’: Neurotic Origins of Vocational Passion in Casaubon and Lydgate of George Eliot’s Middlemarch” (April 2007). Jonas plays guitar and keeps journals. He also really likes Emerson's Nature, perhaps as much as anything else, as well as the power of autumn over the human spirit.

Education
B.A. in English, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Valedictorian Candidate
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
M.A. in English
Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Selected Publications

• “Stealing the White Man’s Weapon or Forging One’s Own? African and African-American English in Ce's Children of Koloko and Morrison's Beloved." IRCALC-CS (A)1 2007 - The Works of Chin Ce. Ed. Irene Marques. Morrisville: IRCALC, 2007. www.africaresearch.org
• “‘Shaking Off the Old Skin’: The Redemptive Motif in Ellison’s Invisible Man and Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground." The Dostoevsky Journal 7 (2006): 75-91. www.schlacks.com

Courses Taught

• English 1000 (Honors): Argumentation and Exposition
• English 1000: Argumentation and Exposition
• English 1210: Introduction to British Literature
• English 2100: Writing About Literature

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