Joan Klingel-Ray, Ph.D.
Education
B.A. in English,
summa cum laude, State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony
Brook; M.A. and Ph.D. in English at Brown University
Research InterestsJane Austen, mid 17th- and 18th-century British
literature, Donne through Gray
Area(s) of SpecializationProfessor Ray
was 3-term (2000-06) president of the Jane Austen Society of North America
(JASNA), which you can access at
www.jasna.org, and she is now president of the
North American Friends of Chawton House Library, a research library in
Hampshire, England, located on the 270-acre estate once owned by Jane Austen's
brother, Edward Austen Knight. The Library's holdings are devoted to early women
writers. She is the author of
Jane Austen for Dummies (2006), of which John
Sutherland (a prominent British scholar of late 18th and early 19th-century
literature) said in the
Financial Times , "If you're a dummy when you start
this book, you won't be when you finish it!" She is currently working on the
Dictionary of Literary Biography volume on Jane Austen, which will be a
standard reference volume in university libraries. Recent journal articles by
Professor Ray are in
Notes and Queries,
Explicator, and
Persuasions
On-Line.
Courses Taught at UCCS
18th-c. British novel, 17th-c. lyric
poetry, Satire, Milton, Jane Austen (Senior Seminar on Jane Austen; Jane Austen
on Film; Jane Austen and her World), 18th-c. drama and poetry, the Gothic in Art
and Literature
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