Research Bio

Donna Jones is an associate professor in the Department of English. Professor Jones is currently working on two projects,  The Ambiguous Promise of European Decline: Race and Historical Pessimism in the Era of the Great War (62,000 words) and The Tribunal of Life: Reflections on Vitalism, Race and Biopolitics (20,000 words).

Professor Jones serves as Core Faculty for the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory and the Science, Technology and Society Center. She is on the Advisory Board for the Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major, and is also affiliated with Gender and Women's Studies.

Research Expertise and Interest

critical theory, English, modernism, literature and philosophy, literature of the Americas, literature of the African Diaspora, postcolonial literature and theory, narrative and historiography