This month, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese will host Scholar-in-Residence, Nicholas R. Jones (UC Davis).
Jones will host a micro-seminar in the department, beginning on November 11th titled “Black/Early/Peninsular”, which will chart and uncover the conception, legacy, and porousness of Iberian Blackness—archival, performative, visual, otherwise—across time.
Nicholas R. Jones is the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center’s (KJCC) Scholar-in-Residence at New York University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain (Penn State University Press, May 2019) and co-editor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology (Palgrave, December 2018) and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production (Routledge, January 2021) with Chad Leahy. Jones also co-edits the Routledge Critical Junctures in Global Early Modernities book series with Derrick Higginbotham and is the new Editor-in-Chief of Caribbeana: The Journal of the Early Caribbean Society. Jones’s research has been generously supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and he is completing his second solo-authored monograph entitled Cervantine Blackness. Jones has also held visiting appointments at Georgetown University and New York University.
We are delighted to welcome Nicholas Jones to the department!
For micro-seminar information and registration details, visit https://span-port.yale.edu/event/blackearlypeninsular-nicholas-r-jones-scholar-residence.