Alwin A. D. Jones
BA, Tufts University. MA, PhD, University of Virginia. Special interests include African American literature and studies, 18th century to the present; Caribbean literature and studies, literatures in English and/or translations; early American/transatlantic literatures; postcolonial literatures in English, particularly of the African diaspora; race, cultural, and postcolonial theory; black popular culture; performance poetry; and the intersection of black music and resistance internationally. SLC, 2008–
Undergraduate discipline: Literature
Courses taught in Literature
- African American Literature Survey (1789-2011)
- Creating New Blackness: The Expressions of the Harlem Renaissance
- Spoken Wor(l)ds: African American Poetry From Black Arts to Hip Hop (1960-2012)

