Kassidi Jones

Kassidi Jones is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in African American Studies and English at Yale. Her dissertation is an exploration of nineteenth-century ecopoetics, focusing on pleasure as an experience central to the relationships between Black people and the nonhuman members of their environments. A Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, she also studies the Harlem Renaissance with an emphasis on Georgia Douglas Johnson. Kassidi’s interest in archival work is demonstrated by her position as a Curatorial Fellow in Beinecke, and her research assistantship for the Black Bibliography Project.