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Douglas A. Jones, Jr.
Assistant Professor of English
New Brunswick Campus
Office Hours: On Leave Academic Year 2012-2013
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 Curriculum Vitae  Email |
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Professor Jones is a literary and cultural historian of the nineteenth-century U.S. He is currently finishing his manuscript, The Captive Stage, which charts the form and function of proslavery performance and literary practices in the early national and antebellum north. Other research and teachings interests include the relationship between embodiment and literary history; genre, especially melodrama; the cultural history of slavery; race and performance.
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| Education |
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PhD, Stanford
BFA, New York University
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Early American and antebellum literature and culture; African American literature; the cultural history of slavery; drama and performance; post-black aesthetics |
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- The Captive Stage: Black Exception, Performance, and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North (Michigan, Forthcoming)
- The Metheun Anthology of Post-Black Drama (Metheun/Bloomsbury, Forthcoming), Co-editor
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- “Black Politics but not Black People: Rethinking the Social and ‘Racial’ History of Early Minstrelsy,”
TDR (Forthcoming)
- “Slavery, Performance, and the Design of African American Theatre,”
Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre, Harvey Young ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
- “Aesthetics, Ideology, and the Use of the Victim in Early American Melodrama,”
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre 22.1, Winter 2010
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Awards and Distinctions
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- Cotsen Fellow, Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, 2011-2013, Princeton University
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2011-2012 (Declined), Center for African American Studies, Princeton University
- Wendell Cole Memorial Award for Distinguished Dissertation, Stanford University
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