Dr. Manina Jones

Biography

Manina Jones is a Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University. She specializes in Canadian literary studies and contemporary popular culture, with a particular focus on crime fiction, film, and television. Jones has published extensively on writing in the early nineteenth century to contemporary literature, including poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography. She supervises graduate students in various fields of Canadian literature, including crime fiction, literary collaboration, and border studies. Her notable publications include monographs such as 'Detective Agency: Women Rewriting Hard-boiled Tradition' and 'Art Difference: Documentary-Collage in English Canadian Writing.' Additionally, she has authored articles and book chapters exploring themes within Canadian noir and environmental crime in literature. Jones has contributed to academic discourse through editing special issues of journals and volume publications addressing topics relevant to Canadian writings and cultural narratives.

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