Jovonna Jones
Assistant Professor, English and African & African Diaspora Studies
Biography
Jovonna Jones is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Culture at Boston College, specializing in visual culture, Black feminisms, and the built environment. Her articles have appeared in Aperture, Boston Art Review, Callaloo, Souls, and Southern Cultures, along with essays in Fragments of a Crucifixion (MCA Chicago), Picturing Black History (Abrams Books), and LaToya M. Hobbs: Carving Out Time (Harvard Art Museums). Her first book project, The Last Thanksgiving at West Rutland Square , blends family history and visual archives to re-examine Black space-making and spatial activism in Boston’s South End. Prof. Jones is a 2026 Sharing Community Histories fellow at the Northeastern Humanities Center with a focus on creative archival writing and pedagogy. She was a 2024-2025 ACLS Fellow , and a 2024-2025 resident fellow at the Newhouse Center for Humanities at Wellesley College . She has previously held fellowships from Dartmouth College, the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Prof. Jones holds her PhD and MA from Harvard University and BA from Emory University, each in African American Studies.
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- AADS3901 The Great Migration Narrative: Black Storytelling in/across Time, Space, and Generations
- AADS4538 Visual Culture in Black America: The Art and Politics of Seeing and Being Seen
- AADS4952 Readings and Research
- ENGL1080 Literature Core
- ENGL2133 Studies in Narrative
- ENGL3901 The Great Migration Narrative: Black Storytelling in/across Time, Space, and Generations
- ENGL4538 Visual Culture in Black America: The Art and Politics of Seeing and Being Seen