Editor Biography - Jena Gaines

Name: Jena Gaines

Undergraduate:
BA, Anthropology
Bridgewater State College
Mount Holyoke College

Graduate:
MA, History
University of Virginia

PhD, History
University of Virginia

Teaching and Editing Experience: 22 Years

Jena Gaines was born and raised in Newport, Rhode Island. She attended Mount Holyoke College and Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, where she majored in cultural anthropology. She earned her Master's and doctoral degrees in modern European history from the University of Virginia. She taught undergraduate and graduate history courses before becoming a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and book reviews have appeared in Slavery and Abolition, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Contemporary European History, and French Politics and Society. She is also the author of a book on Haitians in North America.

Publications:
Haitian Immigration (Mason Crest, 2004)
Articles and book reviews on European history

• The Robber Bridegroom, by Margaret Atwood
• Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
• Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Love, by Toni Morrison (and all of her other novels)
• The Man in My Basement, by Walter Mosley (and his Easy Rawlins series)
• Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell
• The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Perfume, by Patrick Suskind