Overview
Dr. Jean Griffith serves as an associate professor in the department of English in the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Griffith teaches courses in American, ethnic and women鈥檚 literature. Her current research project, tentatively titled Imagining Orphans: Poverty, Difference, and America鈥檚 Dispossessed Children, examines the riff between the stories we tell about orphans and the real history of children placed in institutions or with non-birth families. She has published essays in the volumes New Essays on Welty, Class, and Race and Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race and in journals such as Studies in the Novel and Western American Literature. Her first book, The Color of Democracy in Women鈥檚 Regional Writing, was published by The University of Alabama Press in 2009.