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
• Johnson's Lives
• Philosophy Editor, The Scriblerian

Courses Taught:

• EN 105: Afterlives
• EN 211: Fiction
• EN 215: Drama
• EN 230: Bible as Literature
• EN 315: Eighteenth-Century Novel
• EN 350: Eighteenth-Century and Restoration Literature
• EN 362: The '20s Gaily, Swiftly

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.
• "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 Testament 28:4(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.