Jayne Waterman specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American Literature and Culture. She has taught The Modern Novel, The American Literary Experience, Modern Drama, Great Books, and Composition. Her research interests include the cultural capital of modernism and the middlebrow. She has published several articles and presented several national and international conference papers on this topic. Her current work in progress includes co-editing, with a U.K. colleague, a collection of essays investigating the middlebrow. Waterman's research is also focused on Regionalism, particularly in relation to race, gender, and culture. As an Executive Officer for the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, she is currently the guest editor of one of the Society's journals, Midwestern Miscellany . She is also writing a book about Louis Bromfield, the Ohio author and farmer, editing a selection of his short stories, and has published the introductions for two of his recently reprinted novels. In addition, Waterman is researching Paul Laurence Dunbar (in a forthcoming essay for an edited book), Dawn Powell (in a forthcoming article), and James Thurber (as a Thurber House Literary Committee member). After receiving her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, England (which included archival research at The Ohio State University), and teaching at Leeds University, she moved to Ohio permanently in 2005 and joined the English Department at Ashland University in 2006.