Cait Jones

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Modernism, Poetics, American Literature, Feminist Theory, Black Feminist Theory, Black Queer Studies

CURRENT RESEARCH:
My current research is preoccupied with race, aging, and disability. The work I presented most recently explores how Black women’s aging is conceptualized in contemporary fiction, specifically Theory by Dionne Brand and Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall by Suzette Mayr.

CONFERENCES:
– “‘This Building Is Sick:’ Aging Academics in Black Women’s Fiction.” Modern Language Association Convention. Seattle, WA, January 2020.
– “‘Nothing in a City Discrete:’ Urban Spectatorship in the Work of Dionne Brand and James Baldwin.” Carleton University Department of English Grad Conference. Carleton University, Ottawa, ON. April 2019.
– “Citizens of Lemonade: Exploring Black Consciousness with Claudia Rankine and Beyoncé.” Literature and Social Justice Conference. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. March 2018.
– “‘Want to see me disco?:’ The Lost Archives of Queer Joy.” Queer Canada, Two Days of Canada Conference. Brock University, St. Catharines, ON. November 2017.
– “‘Heaven is a place on earth:’ San Junipero’s Otherworldly Possibilities and Escaping Queer Death.” Queer Collisions Conference. Sadleir House, Peterborough, ON. March 2017.
– “‘a foreign anguish:’ Language and the Representation of Black Female Bodies in the Poetry of Dionne Brand and M. NourbeSe Philip.”  Queer Collisions Conference. Sadleir House, Peterborough, ON. March 2016.