Nicholas R. Jones (Yale University) is the former King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center's Scholar-in-Residence at New York University (2021-2022). He is the author of the prize-winning  Staging  Habla de Negros : Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain  (Penn State University Press, May 2019) and co-editor of  Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology  (Palgrave, December 2018) and  Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production  (Routledge, January 2021) with Chad Leahy. Jones also co-edits  The Routledge Critical Junctures in Global Early Modernities  book series with Derrick Higginbotham. Jones's research has been generously supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as has held visiting professorships at Georgetown University and New York University. His new, single-authored book,  Cervantine Blackness , will be published in November 2024 by Penn State University Press.

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