Edward Southey Joynes (March 21, 1834 – June 18, 1917) was an American textbook author and university professor of modern languages, especially German and French.

Although he taught at the College of William & Mary before the American Civil War, the bulk of his career was spent teaching foreign languages at other Southern universities during the Reconstruction Era.

[4] He then taught at the University of Virginia as an assistant professor for three years, before traveling to Berlin, Germany for further studies in 1856-857.

[7] During the American Civil War of 1861-1865, Joynes was the only faculty member at William and Mary not to become an officer in the Confederate Army.

[2][3] Following Lee's death, Joynes organized a modern language department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and became its first Professor, officially on the faculty roll in 1875.

He paved the way for the establishment of the Columbia City School System,[10] and helped found and became a charter member of the Board of Trustees at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina.