Manina Jones

Professor
Director, School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities

B.A. University of Western Ontario 1984
M.A. University of Western Ontario 1985
Ph.D. York University 1991



University College 
519-661-2111 ext. 85788
mjones@uwo.ca

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5795-7463

Research

I am a specialist in Canadian literary studies and in contemporary Popular Culture studies (specifically crime fiction, film and television). In Canadian literary studies, I have published on writing from the early nineteenth century to contemporary writing, and spanning poetry fiction, drama, and autobiography. I supervise graduate students working in the following fields: Canadian literature, Crime Fiction and Film, Literary Collaboration, Border Studies.

Selected Publications

Books

Walton, Priscilla and Manina Jones. Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-boiled Tradition. University of California Press, 1999.

Jones, Manina. That Art of Difference: “Documentary-Collage” and English Canadian Writing. University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Selected Essay Collections and Special Issues of Journals

Jones, Manina, editor. Detective Fiction and Borders, special issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection, volume 41, number 1, 2023.

Dvorak, Marta and Manina Jones, editors. Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

Jones, Manina. “Soft border, Soft-boiled: Cultural and Environmental Crime in Howard Engel’s Niagara Frontier Detective Novels.” Crime Fiction Studies (U of Edinburgh P), vol. 4, no. 2, 2023, pp. 227-242.

Jones, Manina. “Canadian Noir: Consumer Culture, Colonial Nationalism and the Cardinal Series.” Forum for Modern Language Studies special issue on Shades of Noir in World Literatures, edited by Maria Alonso, vol. 56, no. 2, 2020, pp. 280-294.

Jones, Manina. “Northern Procedures: Policing the Nation in Giles Blunt’s The Delicate Storm.” Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Detective Fiction, Film, and Television, edited by Marilyn Rose and Jeannette Sloniowski, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014, pp. 83-100.

Jones, Manina and Neal Ferris. “Flint, Feather, and Other Material Selves: Negotiating the Performance Poetics of E. Pauline Johnson.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2, 2017, pp. 125-57.

Jones, Manina. “Colonial Contracts: Marriage, Rape, and Consent in Malcolm’s Katie.” Canadian Literature, no. 212, Spring 2012, pp. 68-84.

Jones, Manina. “Wildlifewriting? Animal Stories and Indigenous Claims in Ernest Thompson Seton’s Wild Animals I Have Known.” Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 42, no. 3, 2008, pp. 133-49.