- Ph.D. English, University of North Carolina
- M.A. English, University of North Carolina
- B.A. English, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Dr. Wendell M. "Whit" Jones, Jr.
Professor of English
E-mail: joneswh@bryan.edu
Office Phone: 423.775.7246
Box: 7810
Office Phone: 423.775.7246
Box: 7810
Academic Degrees
Professional Associations
- South Atlantic Modern Language Association
- Southeast Conference on Christianity and Literature
Selected Publications
- American Literature, Apologia, June 2016
- Biographical Sketches on Poet and Essayist Charles Woodmason and Poet John Beecher for Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary. LSU Press 2004.
- “Stoicism,” “Honor,” and “Town and Country” for The Companion to Southern Literature. LSU Press 2002
- “Holding Up the Revealing Lamp: The Myth of Psyche in Edith Wharton’s The Reef.” College Literature February 1992
- “The Poverty of Gnosticims or the Riches of Christ.” Editorial in The Crucible: A Journal for Christian Graduate Students. Summer 1991
Topics of Expertise
- C.S. Lewis
- Child-Raising
- Husband-wife relationships
- Literary Theory
- Literature and psychology
- Milton
- Parenting
- Renaissance literature generally
- Shakespeare
- Southern Literature (Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, etc.)
- Stoicism
- The Concept of Honor
- The Novel
- Walker Percy