Jane Rose

Retired, Associate Professor

Curriculum Vitae

BIO

Dr. Rose is now retired as an Associate Professor in the Department of English and previously served as the Director of USF Early University Programs.  She was also the Ombuds officer for the Sarasota-Manatee Campus. Over the past twenty years, she was mostly involved with academic administration. From 2006 to 2020, she led two colleges on the USF Sarasota-Manatee Campus: first as Dean of Arts and Sciences and then as Dean of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. Prior to joining USF, she served as Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs; Interim Chair of the Department of English, Speech, and Journalism; and Director of Women’s Studies at Georgia College & State University.

Throughout her career, she taught a wide variety of courses in American literature, covering all periods and genres.  With a focus on expanding the canon, she developed and taught courses on women and ethnic minority writers, as well as interdisciplinary courses that cross-listed with women’s studies and humanities. Among the topics courses that she taught is one that examined the corpus of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. 

Dr. Rose’s scholarship is in the area of feminist theory and criticism, with publications focused on the critical recovery of nineteenth-century women writers. Her work is probably most known for contributing to recovery and reassessment of American realist Rebecca Harding Davis. Her most recent project is reassessment of historical novelist Mary Johnston as a progressive feminist through a scholarly edited reprint of her little-known volume The Wanderers.

A globe-trotter at heart, another passion Dr. Rose has is internationalizing the curriculum. She taught and lectured in China, Japan, India, and the Czech Republic. For several summers she led students on study-abroad in Italy. She also led development of a cultural immersion study-abroad program for USF students in Mexico. Recently, a Japanese studies fellowship enabled her to begin development of a course on Japanese culture through fiction and film.