Gender and Sexuality Studies

Biography

Dr. Janine Jones is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at UNCG, who teaches Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy of Race and Gender (which is cross-listed with WGS), Philosophy of the Arts, and Philosophy of Mind. Her philosophical interests lie at the intersection of issues pertaining to imagination, language, socio-ontological reality, and race and gender. Her publications include “Cartesian Conceiving,” Metaphysica 5.1 (2004), “If You See Something, Say Something,” Black Scholar, winter 43.4 (2013), and more recently, “Moonlight Rift: Examining Rifts between Presentations of Black, Gay, Male humanity, and Representations of Black, Gay, Male non-Humanity in Moonlight,” The Western Journal of Black Studies. She is co-editor of Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics (Lexington 2012). She received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1994.