About Steve Jones

I teach and research in the fields of Literature, Film Studies, Celtic Studies, Arts, and Media.

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

PhD in English Literature: Ball State University, Muncie, IN. December 2013
Doctoral Dissertation: Postcolonial Welsh Modernisms: Ethnic Performativity in Welsh Writing of the Late 19th & 20th Centuries

UK FULBRIGHT POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD: US-UK Fulbright Commission, 2010-2011
Doctoral Dissertation Research at The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

 MA, ENGLISH LITERATURE: Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN. May 2007
Master’s Thesis: Frank Miller’s Ideals of Heroism (Adaptation: Film & Graphic Novels)

BA, LITERATURE & PHILOSOPHY:
Taylor University, Upland, IN. May 2005

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Lexicon de Plantas (Lexicon of Plants): Cyclicality and Participatory Community Experience in an Immersive Animated Installation.” Co-written with Alejandra Abad. Proceedings of the Expanded 2024 Conference on Animation and Interactive Art. Ars Electronica Linz, 2024.

“Kate Roberts, Complex Nostalgia and Local Challenges to Britishness.” The Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Vol. 33 (2013): 123-144.

TEACHING & CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: Instructor of English
LIT 4001: Literary Genres
LIT 2931: Special Topics in Literature: Literature & Music
LIT 2010: Interpretation of Fiction
LIT 2010-HB: Honors Interpretation of Fiction
ENC 1101: College Writing I
ENC 1102: College Writing II

COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM: Adjunct Faculty        
LIT 1015: Introduction to Literature (Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Comics, & Film Adaptation)
LIT 2021 & 2021: British Literature I & II       
LIT 2001 & 2002: World Literature I & II
LIT 2005: Race, Ethnicity, and Culture          
LIT 2011 & 2012: American Literature I & II   
LIT 2025: Introduction to Shakespeare
LIT 2046: Literature of Women
LIT 2055: Children’s Literature           
LIT 2068: Celtic Literature           
HUM 1003: Introduction to Film Art               
HUM 1015: World Mythology
HUM 1023: Humanities: Modern World   
ENG 1021: English Composition I
ENG 1022: English Composition I & II
  
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY: Part-Time Professor
LIT 100: Introduction to Literature
LIT 311: British Literature I                            
LIT 312: British Literature II
LIT 338: Shakespeare

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: Associate Faculty
ENG 121: English Composition I
ENG 122: English Composition II
ENG 125: Introduction to Literature
ENG 225: Introduction to Film   

SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY: Adjunct Faculty in Graduate Studies
ENG 531: Fiction and Film                              
ENG 550: Graduate Studies in the English Language
LIT 500: Graduate Studies in Literary Theory  
LIT 510: Graduate Studies in Victorian Literature
LIT 511: Graduate Studies in Modern British Literature
LIT 545: Graduate Studies: Postcolonial Encounters
LIT 652: Graduate Seminar in Global Literature
LIT 690: MA in English Capstone (MA Thesis / Comprehensive Exams)

IRISH STUDIES PROGRAM (Greystones, Ireland): Instructor
ISP 220: Contemporary Ireland (Film & Culture)
ISP 225: Irish History
ISP 230: Irish Literature
ISP 250: Participation in the Arts (Traditional Irish Music, Art, & Aesthetics)
HUM 230: Art as Experience (Irish and European Artistic Traditions & Aesthetics)

BALL STATE UNIVERSITY: Teaching Assistant, 2009-2010                    
ENG 103: Rhetoric & Writing

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Music & Art

“TRES: Building Communal Identity via Migratory Memory in Experiential Art.” Livable Cities, Lisbon, Portugal, July 10, 2025.

“Lexicon de Plantas (Lexicon of Plants): Cyclicality and Participatory Community Experience in an Immersive Animated Installation. Expanded Animation at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, Sept 7, 2024.

“The ‘Authentic’ & The ‘Surrogate’: Nationalistic Antiquarianism and Postmodern Pastiche in Welsh Music.” UC Berkeley, Celtic Studies Association of North America, March 7, 2015.

Literature & Celtic Studies

“Borders: Physical and National Identity in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and The Maps of John Speede.” University of Denver Seafaring Conference, November 3, 2016.

“The Influence of Gerald of Wales on John Beddoe’s Victorian Conceptions of Ethnicity.” Harvard University, New Perspectives on Gerald of Wales: Texts and Contexts. April 11, 2015.

“Welsh Romanticism: Iolo Morganwg, Madog and The Revolutionary Spirit.” Harvard University, Harvard Celtic Colloquium. Oct 10, 2014.

“A Look Into Early Celtic Studies: Matthew Arnold and Gerard Manley Hopkins on Celticness and Britishness.” UCLA, University of California Celtic Studies Conference. Mar 13, 2014.

“Kate Roberts on Welshness and Britishness in the Modern Age.” Harvard University, Harvard Celtic Colloquium. Oct 11, 2013.

“The Correspondence of David Jones and Saunders Lewis.” The University of Toronto, Celtic Studies Association of North America. Session in honor of David Klausner. April 2013.

“David Jones and Saunders Lewis.”  London, Fulbright Scholars Forum. Jan 11, 2011.

“Tension and Comradeship with the Ethnic Other: Britain as Pastiche in David Jones’s Essays and the Poem In Parenthesis.” Marymount University, NAASWCH International Conference on Welsh Studies. July 22, 2010.

“Land & Language: Dylan Thomas, Performativity and the Welsh Literary Tradition.” Indiana University, IU Graduate Student Conference. March 28, 2009.

“The (Post)Colonial Discourse of Land, Language and National Identity in Saunders Lewis’s Cymru Fydd.” UC Berkeley, Celtic Studies Association of North America / University of California Celtic Studies Conference. March 15, 2009.

“The Hopkinsian Grotesque: The Paradox of the Natural Body in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.” Ball State University, Practical Criticism Midwest. Feb 6, 2009.

Film Studies

“Postcolonial Ethnicity in British New Wave Cinema.” Celtic Studies Association of North America, St. Francis Xavier, Nova Scotia, Canada, May 6, 2016.

“Welsh Ethnicity in The Films of Rhys Ifans.” UCLA Celtic Colloquium. March 11, 2016.

“Welsh Cinema & Ethnic Identity.” North American Festival of Wales. September 4-5, 2015.

“United and Divided: Notions of Femininity and Masculinity in 1970s ‘Blaxploitation’ Films.” Ball State University, African Diaspora Research Conference. March 26, 2009.

Comics

“Ideals of Heroism in Frank Miller’s Sin City.” University of Tennessee, NEXUS Conference. March 29, 2008.