{"id":20236,"date":"2021-05-26T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=20236"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:46:37","slug":"cait-jones","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/cait-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Cait Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RESEARCH INTERESTS:<br>\n<\/strong>Modernism, Poetics, American Literature, Feminist Theory, Black Feminist Theory, Black Queer Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CURRENT RESEARCH:<br>\n<\/strong>My current research is preoccupied with race, aging, and disability. The work I presented most recently explores how Black women\u2019s aging is conceptualized in contemporary fiction, specifically&nbsp;<em>Theory<\/em>&nbsp;by Dionne Brand and D<em>r. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall<\/em>&nbsp;by Suzette Mayr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CONFERENCES:<br>\n<\/strong>&#8211; \u201c\u2018This Building Is Sick:\u2019 Aging Academics in Black Women\u2019s Fiction.\u201d <em>Modern Language Association Convention.&nbsp;<\/em>Seattle, WA, January 2020.<br>\n&#8211; \u201c\u2018Nothing in a City Discrete:\u2019 Urban Spectatorship in the Work of Dionne Brand and James Baldwin.\u201d <em>Carleton University Department of English Grad Conference.&nbsp;<\/em>Carleton University, Ottawa, ON. April 2019.<br>\n&#8211; \u201cCitizens of Lemonade: Exploring Black Consciousness with Claudia Rankine and Beyonc\u00e9.\u201d <em>Literature and Social Justice Conference.<\/em>&nbsp;Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. March 2018.<br>\n&#8211; \u201c\u2018Want to see me disco?:\u2019 The Lost Archives of Queer Joy.\u201d <em>Queer Canada, Two Days of Canada Conference<\/em>. Brock University, St. Catharines, ON. November 2017.<br>\n&#8211; \u201c\u2018Heaven is a place on earth:\u2019 San Junipero\u2019s Otherworldly Possibilities and Escaping Queer Death.\u201d <em>Queer Collisions Conference<\/em>. Sadleir House, Peterborough, ON. March 2017.<br>\n&#8211; \u201c\u2018a foreign anguish:\u2019 Language and the Representation of Black Female Bodies in the Poetry of Dionne Brand and M. NourbeSe Philip.\u201d&nbsp; <em>Queer Collisions Conference<\/em>. Sadleir House, Peterborough, ON. March 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Cait","cu_people_last_name":"Jones","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[27],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-20236","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","hentry","cu_people_type-phd-students"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"M.A., B.A. (Trent University)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/20236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/20236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25450,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/20236\/revisions\/25450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=20236"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=20236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}