Language and Literature

Faculty and Staff

Jill Aston


English Lecturer

Department of Language and Literature
Sam Fore Hall 103A
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
+1 361-593-2513

 

Education

  • PhD University of Texas Dallas Literature
  • M.Ed. University of Texas Brownsville 2006 Education Technology
  • B.A. University of Texas Dallas 2003 Literary Studies

Research and Teaching Interests

  • 19th and 20th Century American Literature
  • Literature and Science
  • Literary Naturalism
  • Women Writers in Transatlantic Literature

Presentations

  • Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference Panel Presentation: “Literary Naturalism and Personal Agency: A Transatlantic Network of Social Reformers” - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2025

  • The Winnifred Eaton Conference, Panel Presentation:  “Naturalism in Winnifred Eaton's Cattle” - Calgary, Alberta, July 2023

  • College English Association Panel Presentation: “Naturalism in Winnifred Eaton's Cattle and Dorothy Scarborough’s The Wind” - San Antonio, Texas, March 2023

  • Conference of College Teachers of English Panel Presentation: “Feminist Community in Darwin's The Descent of Man: Appropriation of Evolutionary Theory in Transatlantic Literature, 1880 TO 1939” - Wichita Falls, Texas, March 2023
  • Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference Panel Presentation: “Naturalism's Female Authors and the Canon” - Baltimore, Maryland, November 2021

Jill Aston