Nicholas Jones
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
- “Black Bibliophiles, Black Collectors: Or, How to Write about Blackness in Medieval Iberia.”
- The Routledge Companion to Race in Early Modern Artistic, Material, and Visual Production