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
2013-2014
- African American Literature: Constructing Racial Selves and Others
- “New” World Literatures: Fictions of the Yard
- New World Studies: Maroons, Rebels, and Pirates of the Caribbean
2012-2013
- First-Year Studies: Contemporary Africa Literatures: Against the Single Story of Things Fall Apart
- Writing Warrior (Wo)men: Mothering, Movements and Migration in Black Literature