Nicholas R. Jones
Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. New York University
Nicholas R. Jones, a Full Professor / Catedrático at Yale University, is the former King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center’s Scholar-in-Residence at New York University (2021-2022) and author of Cervantine Blackness (2024) and the multi-award-winning book Staging Habla de Negros (2019). A conceptual and theoretical thinker, Jones is a literary critic and cultural historian whose areas of expertise traverse the early African Diaspora and Black European Studies to Cervantes and Iberian Studies.
Cervantine Futures: Reading Cervantes after the Critical Turn:
The Renaissance Reader: Beyoncé and Black Queer Popular Culture:
Cervantine Blackness:
“On Reparation and Recovery,” Guest Editor Introduction to Recovering Black Performance in Early Modern Iberia: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/107/article/928894.
“Black Bibliophiles, Black Collectors: Or, How to Write about Blackness in Medieval Iberia.” https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/114/article/961707.
The Routledge Companion to Race in Early Modern Artistic, Material, and Visual Production: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Race-in-Early-Modern-Artistic-Material-and-Visual-Production/Jones-Lee-Polanco/p/book/9781032312163.