Regina Janes
Professor
A.B, University of California, Berkeley
M.A.and Ph.D., Harvard University
Office: Palamountain 306
Phone: (518) 580-5168
Email: rjanes@skidmore.edu
Teaching and Research Interests:
- Eighteenth-Century English Literature
- Colonialism and Imperialism
- Modern Latin American Literature
- Satire
- Philosophy Editor, The Scriblerian
- The Scriblerians and Edmund Burke
Courses Taught:
- EN 105: Afterlives
- EN 105: Practicing Satire
- EN 215: Drama
- EN 228: Satire: Read it, Write it, Watch it
- EN 230: Bible as Literature
- EN 350: Eighteenth-Century and Restoration Literature
- EN 362: The '20s Gaily, Swiftly
- EN 362: Science, Sex, and Satire: The Restoration
- EN 375: Lives of Johnson
Selected Publications:
- Losing Our Heads: Beheadings in Literature and Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2005.
- Edmund Burke and Irish Affairs. Maunsel/Academica Press, May 2002.
- "One Hundred Years of Solitude": Modes of Reading. Boston: G.K.Hall, 1991.
- Gabriel García Márquez: Revolutions in Wonderland. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1981.
- “Henry Fielding Reinvents the Afterlife,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 23.3 (2011):495-518.
- “Revisiting García Márquez among the Bananas,” Modern Language Quarterly, 71.4 (December 2010): 453-77.
- "Fielding and the Case of the Misguided Reader," in Henry Fielding in Our Time, ed. Alan J. Downie. NewcastleUpon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. 165-85.
- "Why the Daughter of Herodias Must Dance (Mark 6.14-29)," Journal for the Study of the New Testament28:4(2006): 443-67.
- "Scandalous Empire, Scandalous Scholarship: Fables of East and West," Eighteenth-Century Studies 40:2 (2006):314-17.
- "Ariosto and Gay: Bouncing Heads," ELH 70 (2003), 447-463.
- "'Writing Without Authority': J. M. Coetzee and His Fictions,"Salmagundi 114-15 (1997), 103-21.
- "Beheadings," Representations, 35 (Summer 1991), 21-51.
- "Infante Monogatari," World Literature Today, 61 (1987), 574-79.
- "Edmund Burke's Flyting Leap from India to France," Journal of the History of European Ideas, 7 (1986), 509-27.
- "Liberals, Conservatives, and Bananas: Colombian Politics in the Fictions of Gabriel García Márquez," Hispanófila, 82 (1984), 72-109.
- "At Home Abroad: Edmund Burke in India," Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, 82 (1979), 160-74.
- "On the Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," Journal of the History of Ideas, 39 (1978), 293-302.
