Donna V. Jones, Assistant Professor
Office: 443 Wheeler
Phone: 510-642-7537
Email: dvjones@berkeley.edu
Areas of Interest
Postcolonial Theory & Subaltern Studies, Vitalism/Lebensphilosophie, Historiography & Narrative, Critical Theory,Literature of the African Diaspora, Literature of the Americas,Science and LiteratureCurrent Research
Professor Jones is currently working on a project entitled The Ambiguous Promise of European Decline: Race and Historical Pessimism in the Era of the Great WarSelected Publications and Papers Delivered
The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism and Modernity (Forthcoming Columbia University Press, Spring 2010)
"The End of Europe: Pessimistic Historiography in the Interwar Years and the Paradox of Universalism". Clio, A Journal of Literature , History and the History of Philosophy (Forthcoming Spring 2010)
“The Eleatic Bergson”. Diacritics, Fall 2008 (vol. 37, no. 1)
“The Prison House of Modernism: Colonial Spaces and the Construction of the Primitive at the 1931, Paris Colonial Exposition.” Modernism/Modernity January 2007, (Vol. 14, no. 1)
Invited Talks
"What is Left to Live For? Biopolitics and the Dystopian Vision of Children of Men”. Conference “What is Left of Life”, University of California, Berkeley, February, 2007
Invited Roundtable Participant. “Senghor The Ancestor: Celebrating the Life and Work of Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906-2001),” Harvard University, October , 2006
““The Rise of the Colored Masses”: The Place and Function of the Non-Western World in Pessimistic Narratives of History”. Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, October, 2006
“Mimesis, Monumentality and the Modern at the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition”. Rights and Technology Lecture Series, Brown University, February 2006
"Race and the Temporality of Modernism". MELUS Conference. Padua, Italy, July 2002
“Temporality and Globalization” Comparative Literature and Globalization Conference, Princeton University, March 2001
Office Hours
TTh 3:45 - 5:45
