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Publications

Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century (2025)

Medical Humanities Vol 50, pp. 670-677 (2025)

Halliwell Martin,

(2022)

The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health (2022) (2022)

American Literary History Vol 32, pp. 301-327 (2020)

Radical Philosophy Vol 2 (2018)

Teaching

I teach English at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and on the MSc in Applied Gender Studies.

Research Interests

My research looks broadly at the relationship between the politics of the body and post-1945 literature and visual culture. My first monograph, The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and Film, 1959-1973, is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press. The book explores how writers and filmmakers of the long 1960s—including Lorraine Hansberry, Stan Brakhage, and Sylvia Plath—developed a politics of reproduction that emphasises cultural and biological contingency.

The next stage of my work on reproductive justice is a new project, ‘Narrating Pregnancy Sickness’, which explores the narrative temporalities of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy in relation to debates about the condition’s diagnosis and treatment. Through this research, I explore the cultural construction of pregnancy as a site for the making and unmaking of disability.

My work on reproduction has kindled a broader interest in the politics of concepts that resonate culturally and corporeally, which I am pursuing with ongoing research into literature and the medicalisation of attention. Publications arising from this research include an article, ‘Minimalism’s Attention Deficit: Distraction, Description, and Mary Robison’s Why Did I Ever’, published in American Literary History in 2020, and a book chapter, ‘Diagnosing Deficit, Promising Enhancement: ADHD and Stimulants on Screen’, which was published in a book I co-edited with Martin Halliwell, The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health (Edinburgh UP, 2022).

My research has been funded by the AHRC and the Wellcome Trust. Ìý

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Professional Activities

Peer reviewer

1/2026

Examiner

10/11/2025

Speaker

4/11/2025

Peer reviewer

11/2025

Speaker

13/10/2025

Advisor

9/2025

Projects

Jones, Sophie (Principal Investigator) Bernstein, Sarah (Co-investigator)

Multi-disciplinary approaches to nausea and vomiting in pregnancy

05-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2026

Sledmere, Maria (Principal Investigator) Widner, Jessica (Co-investigator) Bernstein, Sarah (Co-investigator) Jones, Sophie (Co-investigator)

A one-day on campus student training event and follow-up supervisor webinar led by researchers based in Creative Writing, dedicated to supporting practice-based doctoral scholars with the critical component of their thesis.

01-Jan-2025 - 28-Jan-2026

Jones, Sophie (Principal Investigator)

04-Jan-2017 - 28-Jan-2020