Biography
I joined the English department at King’s in September 2014 after completing a PhD at Queen Mary University of London.
Research Interests and PhD Supervision
- Virginia Woolf studies
- The Politics of Modernism
- Twentieth-century women's organisations
- Interwar women writers
My research on Virginia Woolf centres on the relationship between her political and literary practice. My monograph, Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist, rescues the details of Woolf's political activism and social participation with organisations including the People's Suffrage Federation, the Women’s Co-operative Guild and the National Federation of Women's Institutes. An article about my discovery of an unpublished sketch by Woolf in the New York Morgan Library appears in the 2014 edition of Woolf Studies Annual. This article focuses on Woolf’s (often vexed) attitudes towards class and her treatment of working-class voices.
Questions of class and gender are also central to my current research project on the politics of interwar women writers and activists, including Rosamond Lehmann, Rebecca West, Elizabeth Bowen, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Amabel Williams-Ellis.
For more details, please see my full research profile.
Teaching
In 2017-18 I will be teaching on the following modules:
BA
- Activist Texts: Literature and Politics, 1910-1938
- Mapping Modernism
MA
Expertise and Public Engagement
Virginia Woolf walking tours of London for Persephone Books, Women’s History Month and the Literary London Reading Group.
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Jones, C., 27 Mar 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Modernism-Modernity. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Jones, C., 2022, (Accepted/In press) The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Literature and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Jones, C., 26 Dec 2020, In: Women: A Cultural Review. 31, 4 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Jones, C., Oct 2019, A Room of One's Own. Persephone Books Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Jones, C. M. J., May 2018, In: LITERATURE AND HISTORY. 27, 1, p. 3-27 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1177/0306197318755671
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Jones, C. M. J., 2018, The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group. Bloomsbury Academic Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Jones, C. M. J., 2017, In: YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES. Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Jones, C., 1 Apr 2016, In: Woolf Studies Annual. 22, 0, p. 75-96 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Jones, C., 2016, In: Women: A Cultural Review. 27, 2, p. 125-136 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2016.122715
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Jones, C., Dec 2015, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 272 p. Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474401920.001.0001