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DOUGLAS A. JONES, JR.
Department of English, Rutgers University Murray Hall, 510 George St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901 [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Fall 2013–present Assistant Professor, Department of English
Bread Loaf School of English, 2013–present Faculty
Princeton University, 2011-2013 Cotsen Fellow, Princeton Society of Fellows Lecturer, Department of English and the Council of the Humanities
EDUCATION
Stanford University, 2007-2011 Ph.D. in Drama and Humanities Wendell Cole Prize for Distinguished Dissertation
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 2003 B.F.A. with Honors, Theatre Honors Certificate in Theatre Studies
BOOKS
The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North. University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Co-editor with Harry J. Elam, Jr., The Methuen Drama Book of Post-Black Plays. Methuen Drama and Bloomsbury, 2012.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
“Douglass’ Impersonal.” Forthcoming in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 61.1 (Winter 2015).
“Black Politics but not Black People: Re-thinking the Social and ‘Racial’ History of Early Minstrelsy.” TDR: The Drama Review 57.2 (Summer 2013): 21-37.
“Aesthetics, Ideology, and the Use of the Victim in Early American Melodrama.” Journal of American Drama and Theatre 22.1 (Winter 2010): 51-81. JONES CV 2
Co-authored with Michelle Granshaw, “A View from the Middle: Teaching Nineteenth-Century African American Theatre and Performance.” Theatre Topics 19.1 (March 2009): 103-108.
REVIEW ESSAY
“Early Black American Writing and the Making of a Literature.” Early American Literature 49.2 (Summer 2014): 553-569.
BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Wilson’s Realisms: Person, Place, and the Ordinary in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean.” Forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson, eds. Sandra L. Richards and Sandra Shannon. MLA, 2015. (peer-reviewed)
“Slavery’s Performance-Texts.” Forthcoming in Cambridge Companion to Slavery and American Literature, ed. Ezra Tawil. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
“Moving Scenes.” Forthcoming in Pocket Instructor: Literature, eds. Diana Fuss and William Gleason. Princeton University Press, 2015. (peer-reviewed)
“Slavery, Performance, and the Design of African American Theatre.” In Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre, ed. Harvey Young. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
REVIEWS
Review of Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller (Duke, 2009). TDR: The Drama Review 57.1 (Spring 2013): 185-186.
Review of Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness by Nicole R. Fleetwood (Chicago, 2010). TDR: The Drama Review 56.4 (Winter 2012): 186-188.
Review of Racial Innocence: Performing Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein (NYU, 2010). Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 27.1 (Fall 2012): 143-146.
Review of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory by Tavia Nyong’o (Minnesota, 2009). Theatre Journal 60.3 (March 2011): 136-138.
WORK IN PROGRESS
“‘Like Waves to the Ocean’: Frederick Douglass and the Practice of Democratic Individuality.” (preliminary title). Book project
“The Fruit of Abolition: Discontinuity and Difference in Terrance Hayes’ ‘The Avocado.’” In Do You Want to Be Well?: The Psychic Hold of Slavery, eds. Soyica Colbert, Aida Levy-Hussen, and Robert Patterson. Full-book manuscript under review
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“Infelicity as Democracy: Performativity, Virtù, and the Voice.” In progress
INVITED LECTURES
Title TBD. American Literature and Drama Colloquia, Harvard University, February 2015.
Title TBD. Columbia University Seminar in American Studies, Columbia University, February 2015.
“Retrospection as Innovation.” Symposium participant of "Cut/Throat Creativity: Structuring the New," Brown University, 2014.
“Slavery Romances: Staging Race and Nation in Sarah Pogson’s The Young Carolinians (1818).” Avery Research Center, College of Charleston, November 2014.
“The Fruit of Abolition: Irreparability, Incommensurability, and the Poetic.” Georgetown University, March 2014.
TEACHING
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Literature of Black New York from Slavery to the Great Migration (Spring 2015) Introduction to Performance Theory (Spring 2015) Staging America from the Revolution to the Civil War (Fall 2014) Slavery and American Culture (seminar, Fall 2014) Black Literature from the Colonial Period to 1910 (Spring 2014) Douglass and Emerson (graduate seminar, Spring 2014) American Drama (Fall 2013) Uncle Tom and Anti-Toms (seminar, Fall 2013)
Princeton University
Cotemporary African American Literature?: Identity Inquiry, Instability (Spring 2013) Frederick Douglass and the Long Nineteenth Century (Fall 2012) Staging America from the Revolution to the Civil War (Fall 2011)
FELLOWSHIPS HONORS AND AWARDS
Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Princeton Society of Fellows, Princeton University. 2011-2013.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for African American Studies, Princeton University. 2011. (declined)
Wendell Cole Memorial Prize for Distinguished Dissertation, Stanford University. 2011. JONES CV 4
Diversifying Academy, Recruiting Excellence (DARE) Fellow, Stanford University. 2009-2011.
Teaching and Mentor Award for Service to Undergraduate Life, Stanford University. 2010.
Hume Fellowship in the Arts, Stanford University. 2009-2010.
Winner, Best Debut Paper, American Theatre in Higher Education (BTA). 2007.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Frederick Douglass: Performance Theorist/Political Theorist.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Scottsdale, Arizona, July 2014.
“Frederick Douglass’ Soul Politics.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 2014.
“Frederick Douglass and the ‘Claims’ of Democratic Individuality.” Invited Paper for the Division on Nineteenth-Century American Literature of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 2014.
“Histories Large x Small” (Working Group). American Society for Theatre Research, Dallas, Texas, November 2013.
“(Black) American Play: Re-Visiting Eric Lott’s Love and Theft 20 Years Later” (Convened Panel). Association for Theater in Higher Education, Orlando, Florida, August 2013.
“‘Ephemeral Caskets’: Antebellum Black Life and the Performativity of Newspapers.” American Society for Theatre Research, Nashville, Tennessee, November 2012.
“On the Post-Black.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Washington, D.C., August 2012.
“Race, Rights, and the Neo-Neoclassical Imagination.” American Society for Theatre Research, Montreal, Canada, November 2011.
“Disruption, Inefficiency, and (Walking On) Black Time.” American Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland, October 2011.
“Slave Performance and the Beginning of African American Protestantism.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Chicago, Illinois, August 2011.
“Early Minstrelsy and Working Class Politics: Introducing Actual Blackness.” American Society for Theatre Research, Seattle, Washington, November 2010.
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“Black-Print, Black-Face: John Brown's Textual Minstrelsy and the Problem of Writing Race.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Los Angeles, CA, August 2010.
“The Problem of Ethnicity, The Solution of Race: ‘Common Sense’ and the Power of Public Thinking.” Public Art, Public Acts: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Ethnic Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 2010.
“Theatre and the Tension of Theory: W.E. B. Du Bois, Modernity, and the Location of Race.” American Society for Theatre Research, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2009.
“Aesthetics and Ideology in Early American Melodrama.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, New York, NY, November 2009.
“‘I Wonder ef dis is me?’ Pragmatism and The Tragic in William Wells Brown’s The Escape.” American Society Theatre Research, Phoenix, AZ, November, 2007.
“The Perils of Post-Black.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education. New Orleans, LA, August 2007.
OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
Rutgers English Department Committees: Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2013–present); Department Executive Committee (2014–present); Graduate Placement Committee (2014–present)
Founding Steering Committee Member, Nineteenth-Century Workshop, Rutgers University
Resident Faculty Fellow, Wilson College, Princeton University, 2011–2013.
Ad hoc Reviewer, University of Pittsburgh Press, Criticism, Theatre Survey
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Society for Theatre Research American Studies Association American Theatre in Higher Education C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Modern Language Association
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Early National and Antebellum Literary and Cultural History 18th, 19th, and early 20th-century African American Literature 19th-century American Political Theory Performance Theory and Dramatic Literature The Literary and Cultural Imaginations of Slavery
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REFERENCES
Harry J. Elam, Jr., Olive H. Professor in the Humanities Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, Stanford University [email protected] 650.725.3964
Susan Stewart, Avalon Foundation University Professor Department of English, Princeton University [email protected] 609.258.8229
Peggy Phelan, Ann O’Day Maples Professor in the Arts and Professor of English Departments of English and Theatre and Performance Studies, Stanford University [email protected] 650.725.7017
James T. Campbell, Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History Department of History, Stanford University [email protected] 650.723.2651
Harvey Young, Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies Department of Theatre and Drama, Northwestern University [email protected] 847.491.3262
Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor Department of English, Stanford University [email protected] 650.723-0043