Portrait of Jennifer Jackson duBois

Jennifer Jackson duBois

  • Associate Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2023

  • duBois, J. J. (2023). The Last Language: An Excerpt. In The Last Language.
  • duBois, J. J. (2023, November). The Myth of Realism: Belief and Incredulity in Fiction. Poets & Writers.
  • duBois, J. J. (2023, November). Withholding and Revelation: Managing Information in Fiction. Poets & Writers.
  • duBois, J. J. (2023, November). Hearing Voices: Language and Characterization. Poets & Writers.
  • duBois, J. J. (2023). The Last Language: A Novel. Milkweed Editions.

2019

  • duBois, J. J. (2019). The Spectators. New York, NY, United States: Penguin Random House.
  • duBois, J. J. (2019). When A First-Person Narrator Sneaks Into Your Story. LitHub.
  • duBois, J. J. (2019). Los Espectadores. Valencia, Spain: L’Encobert.
  • duBois, J. J. (2019, September). “The Un-reinvention of Jerry Springer.” The Cut.
  • duBois, J. J. (2019, May). “Racing the Train.” Shenandoah.
  • The Spectators. The New York Times Book Review. May 2019.
    • Reviewed by: Gregory Cowles.
  • duBois, J. J. (2019). Against Arguments: An Interview with Esme Weijun Wang. American Short Fiction.
  • The Spectators. The New York Times. April 2019.
    • Reviewed by: Ken Tucker.
  • The Spectators. USA Today. April 2019.
    • Reviewed by: Heather Scott Partington.
  • duBois, J. J. (2019, March). The Spectators: A Novel Excerpt. Narrative.
  • The Spectators. Kirkus Reviews. March 2019.
  • The Spectators. Library Journal. March 2019.
  • The Spectators. Booklist. February 2019.
    • Reviewed by: Michael Cart.

2018

  • duBois, J. J. (2018). “The City of The Dead.” In Trouble in Mind: The Short Story and Conflict (pp. 61–76). Columbia, MO: Missouri  Review Books.

2017

  • duBois, J. J. (2017, October). Review of Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body And Other Parties. Dallas Morning News.
  • duBois, J. J. (2017, August). Review of Sarah Schmidt’s See What I Have Done. Dallas Morning News.

2016

  • duBois, J. J. (2016, November). “The Spectator.” American Short Fiction.
  • duBois, J. (2016, August 14). Review of Swan Huntley’s We Could Be Beautiful. The New York Times.
  • duBois, J. (2016, February 24). MFA vs. CIA. Lapham’s Quarterly Online. Retrieved from http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/mfa-vs-cia

2015

  • duBois, J. (2015, August). Review of Gabriel Urza’s All That Followed. New York Times.

2014

  • duBois, J. J. (2014). Interview with Chris Beha, Author of Arts & Entertainments. Kirkus Reviews.
  • duBois, J. J. (2014). “Why Our Stories About Russia Are Stuck in the Past.” Salon.

2013

  • duBois, J. (2013). Cartwheel: A Novel. New York: Random House.
  • duBois, J. J. (2013). AP Comparative Government and Politics Exam Prep Guide. Shmoop University Inc.
  • duBois, J. J. (2013). “Lighthouse.” In Salon.
  • duBois, J. J. (2013). “The Heathen Army.” ZYZZYVA.
  • duBois, J., & duBois, J. J. (2013, December 13). “Close Quarters.” The New York Times.
  • duBois, J. J. (2013, August). “A Reliable Narrator, but Not a Terribly Interesting One” [Review of Going Home Again, by J. duBois]. The Globe and Mail. The Globe and Mail.

2012

  • duBois, J. (2012). A Partial History of Lost Causes: A Novel. New York: The Dial Press.
  • duBois, J. (2012). “Retreat from Moscow.” In The Esquire Four.
  • duBois, J. (2012). “Sharks.” In Imaginary Oklahoma. This Land.
  • duBois, J. J. (2012). “A Partial History of Lost Causes.” In Narrative.
  • duBois, J. J. (2012). “Addio del Passato.” Retrieved from Fivechapters.com
  • duBois, J. J. (2012). “Words For What Can’t Be Described.” The Wall Street Journal.

2011

  • duBois, J. J. (2011). “The Passenger.” In Playboy (pp. 54–56, 107–114).
  • duBois, J. J. (2011). “The City of the Dead.” In Missouri Review (pp. 49–67).
  • duBois, J. J. (2011). “Wolf.” In The Kenyon Review (pp. 90–103).

2010

  • duBois, J. J. (2010). AP English Cram Kit. Dean Schaffer, ed. DemiDec Resources.

2009

  • duBois, J. (2009). “Eurydice.” The Florida Review.

2008

  • duBois, J. (2008). “A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats.” The South Carolina Review.
  • duBois, J. (2008). “The Nineteen-Nineties Were in Black-and-White.” The Northwest Review.
  • duBois, J. J. (2008). AP English Shorter Selections Resource. Daniel Berdichevsky, ed. DemiDec Resources.