Carole Jones

Carole’s (she/her) reading, writing and teaching interests focus on gender and sexuality representation in prose fiction across the twentieth century to the present engaging with feminism, queer and LGBT studies and critiques of neoliberal gender discourse.  Her principal research area is contemporary Scottish fiction and her monograph Disappearing Men (2009) explores representations of masculinity in devolutionary Scottish writing, studying the relationship of both male and female characters with masculinity and the implications for conceptualising subjectivity and sexual and national identity. More recent work investigates postfeminism and neoliberal femininities in contemporary Scottish women’s writing as addressed in the essay ‘“Femininity in Crisis”: The Troubled Trajectory of Feminism in Laura Hird’s Born Free and Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon’. She is currently working on experimental representations of the feminine in contemporary Scottish fiction. Carole also teaches on 'Queering Fictions of the Twentieth Century ' and 'Writing Contemporary Femininities: Experiment in Waywardness.'

Her recent publications include:

• '“Lead us not into imagination, but deliver us from understanding”: Nan Shepherd’s Wayward Poetics' (Accepted/In press) In: Studies in Scottish Literature. 49, 1, 17 p.
• 'Queering Scottish Literature' (Accepted/In press) Cambridge History of Scottish Literature. Ed. Ian Duncan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• ‘Gender and sexuality’, (Accepted/In press) Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature. Carruthers, G. (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming 2022.
• ‘Muriel Spark's Waywardness’, in The Crooked Dividend: Essays on Muriel Spark. Carruthers, G. & Stoddart, H. (eds.). Glasgow: Association of Scottish Literary Studies, 2022. 
• ‘Scottish women's poetry: Introduction’ editor of Special Issue with Fiona McCulloch, In Contemporary Women's Writing. 14, 2-3 (2020), p. 151-165.
• ‘Coming in from the Cold: Scottish Masculinity in Fiction in the New Millennium’. C21 Literature of 21st-century Writing. 5.2 (2017)
• 'From Subtext to Gaytext?: Scottish Fiction’s Queer Communities’ in S. Lyall (ed) Communities in Modern Scottish Literature (Brill, 2016)
• ‘“Femininity in Crisis”: The Troubled Trajectory of Feminism in Laura Hird’s Born Free and Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon. Contemporary Women’s Writing  9.3 (2015): 385-400
• Disappearing Men: Gender Disorientation in Scottish Fiction 1979–1999 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009).