Office Location: 324 Allen Building
Office Phone: (919) 684-3873
Email Address: bujones@duke.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Harvard University

Specialties:

American Literature
Nineteenth Century Literature

Buford Jones is the bibliographer for the Hawthorne Society and supplements annually his basic checklist of Hawthorne scholarship. He has also published articles on Melville, Thoreau, and Poe as well as special studies of Hawthorne. He is currently completing The Great Romances: Hawthorne's Reputation in the Nineteenth Century.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. "The Two Peaks of Parnassus." (forthcoming). A pamphlet studying the Hawthorne-Poe relationship; to be published by the Baltimore Poe Society
2. "William S. Robinson on Griswold, Poe's 'Literary Executioner'." Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism 28.1 & 2 (June/Dec. 1995): 7-8.
3. J.L. Idol, B. Jones, eds.. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Contemporary Reviews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 1994.
4. "Building Poe Bibliography: American Criticism 1850-1870." Worcester, Baltimore, Maryland: American Literature Association. (1993). This pamphlet, with a critical introduction, will also be published in 1994 with the imprint of the Poe Studies Association Newsletter
5. "Hawthorne's Concord Critic: Charles Creighton Hazewood." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 18.2 (Fall 1992): 28.  Abstract of paper