
Sharon Lynette Jones, Ph.D.
Education History
Ph.D., University of Georgia
M.A., Clemson University
B.A., Clemson University
Publications
Conversations with Angela Davis. University Press of Mississippi: Jackson, MS, 2021. ( editor)
Critical Insights: Zora Neale Hurston. Salem Press: Ipswich: MA, 2013. (editor)
Critical Companion to Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work. New York: Facts on File, Inc. 2009.
Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Literature. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. (co-edited with Rochelle Smith)
Professional Affiliations/Memberships
Present Member, MLA Executive Committee Forum ( African American Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
Past President, Past Vice President, Past Treasurer, The Langston Hughes Society
Past Member, MLA Folklore and Literature Discussion Group Executive Committee
Awards/Recognition
C.J. McClin Faculty Award of Distinction
Ford-Turpin Distinguished Achivement Award ( 2019)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. DIstinguished Service Award (Faculty) in 2012 at Wright State University