Language and Literature

Faculty and Staff

Jill Aston


English Lecturer

Department of Language and Literature
Sam Fore Hall 103A
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
+1 361-593-2513

 

Education

  • ABD University of Texas Dallas Literature
  • M.Ed. University of Texas Brownsville 2006 Education Technology
  • B.A. University of Texas Dallas 2003 Literary Studies

Research and Teaching Interests

  • 19th and 20th Century American Literature
  • Literary Modernism
  • Literary Naturalism
  • Woman Writers in Transatlantic Literature

Presentations

  • “Naturalism in Winnifred Eaton’s Cattle” Panel Presentation at The Winnifred Eaton Conference on July 2023
  • “Naturalism in Winnifred Eaton’s Cattle and Dorothy Scarborough’s The Wind” Panel Presentation at the College English Association on March 2023
  • “Feminist Community in Darwin’s The Decent of Man: Appropriation of Evolutionary Theory in Transatlantic Literature, 1880 to 1939” Panel Presentation at The Congruence of College Teachers of English on March 2023
  • “Naturalism’s Female Authors and the Canon” - Panel Presentation Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference on November 2021
Jill Aston