Professor Douglas Jones interviewed in the “Meet Your Humanities Faculty” series
The tgiFHI series from the Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) is a weekly series that gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretive social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their current research to their departmental and interdepartmental colleagues, students, and other interlocutors in their field. In this interview for the “Meet Your Humanities Faculty”, Professor Douglas Jones, new Associate Professor of Theater Studies discusses his current research interests and practice centering around three primary areas: 18th- and 19th-century American literary studies, performance studies, and political theory. His talk on November 11th was entitled “The New Negro, a Double Act: More Notes from the 'Black Below”
Learn more about his work here https://fhi.duke.edu/highlights/meet-your-humanities-faculty-douglas-jones
Dr. Jones was also feature recently by Trinity Communications. Read the full interview here https://theaterstudies.duke.edu/news/douglas-jones-finds-theatrical-political