Nicholas Jones

Nicholas R. Jones is the former King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center’s Scholar-in-Residence at New York University (2021–2022). He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain (Penn State University Press, May 2019) and co-editor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology (Palgrave, December 2018) and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production (Routledge, January 2021) with Chad Leahy. Jones also co-edits The Routledge Critical Junctures in Global Early Modernities book series with Derrick Higginbotham. Jones’s research has been generously supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also held visiting professorships at Georgetown University and New York University. Alongside two forthcoming monographic-length special issues in the Bulletin of the Comediantes and La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, his second solo-authored book, Cervantine Blackness, will be published late 2024.