Program Director for the Young Women Leaders Program and Engaged Scholarship. Jaronda graduated from Spelman College with a B.A. in Psychology/Military Science. She later earned her M.S. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Counselor Education with a Concentration in School Counseling and Dropout Prevention. She also holds a Ph.D.
She is the author of Ovid's Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses(Michigan, 1994) a commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses 14 (Cambridge, 2009), and articles on Ovid, Roman Elegy, Roman gardens, and Statius. Her current research interests include ancient garden literature, gender, and the poetics of commencement.
Selected Publications
Books
Andrea Press is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology at the University of Virginia, where she also served as Executive Director of the Virginia Film Festival, a College Fellow, and is currently Chair of the Department of Media Studies. Press is a Fellow of the International Communication Association. She came to the University of Virginia in 2006 to shepherd the Media Studies Program to departmental status and to begin its M.A. and Ph.D. graduate programs.
Selected Publications
The Promise of Memory: Childhood Recollection and its Objects in Literary Modernism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011).
The Promised Land? Feminist Writing in the German Democratic Republic (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001), 273 pp.
Selected publications
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness. Co-edited with Sheila Whiteley. February 4, 2022.
“LGBTQ+ Lives in Professional Music Theory,” Music Theory Online, 26/1, March 2020.
“Sexuality, Trauma, and Dissociated Expression.” The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, ed. Joseph Straus et al. 2015.
“Classical Concert Music and Queer Listening.” In online journal Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales. Special issue: “Music and Queer Theory.” 2013.
Selected Publications
2013 - Vital Relations: Modernity and Persistent Life of Kinship. (With Fenella Cannell, eds). Santa Fe: SAR Press.
2008 - Afterward: Adoptive Relations in Theories of Kinship and Modernity. In Relative Power: Changing Interpretations of Fosterage and Adoption in Pacific Island Societies. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 31(3/4). Jeanette Dickerson-Putman and Judith Schachter, eds. Pp. 232-247.
2005 - Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nurture. (With Sydel Silverman, eds). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Selected Publications
Pauline Hopkins. Of One Blood, Or the Hidden Self, edited, And with an Introduction. Simon and Schuster, 2004.
Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, edited and with an introduction. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin. Scribner’s, 1997 Paperback edition, W. W. Norton, 1998.
Period Editor, "Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, 1940-1960."
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