Dr. Nicholas Jones

Biography

Nicholas R. Jones is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He has a Ph.D. from New York University and has served as a Scholar-in-Residence at the King Juan Carlos Spain Center at NYU. His research focuses on issues of race, performance, and the historical and cultural legacies surrounding the works of Cervantes. His forthcoming book 'Cervantine Blackness' (Penn State, Nov 2024) critically examines the implications of blackness within Cervantes's literary corpus. His award-winning prior work includes 'Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain' (Penn State, 2019), which showcases the intersection of race and performance in historical contexts. Jones has guest edited special issues for various academic journals and has contributed to several influential anthologies, exploring Black performance and cultural studies. He is also involved in ongoing collaborative projects that examine the representations of race in early modern Iberia and its connections to contemporary discussions on race and identity.

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