About our Researchers
Amanda Jones
Amanda Jones (PhD candidate, University of Lleida) is a former English instructor at California State University, San Diego, and has taught English as a Foreign Language since 2008. Amanda’s research focuses on the African immigrant experience in the United States, culture and race relations between immigrant groups in the U.S., and the complexities and restraints related to African authenticity in authorship. She is completing her dissertation «‘Lost in Transnation’: Identity, Isolation, Intertextuality, and the Perpetuation of Haunting Postcolonial Literary Devices in the Works of Afropolitan Authors Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Taiye Selasi, Teju Cole, and Okey Ndibe.»
Publications
«Lost in Transnation’: Identity, Isolation, Intertextuality, and the Perpetuation of Haunting Postcolonial Literary Devices in the Works of Afropolitan Authors Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Taiye Selasi, Teju Cole, and Okey Ndibe.» Dissertation forthcoming.
Better Days: Continuous Improvement with LaneOPX. San Diego: LaneOPX Education Academy. Publication forthcoming.
«Afropolitanism as an Extension of Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse in Teju Cole’s Open City.» Persistence and Resistance in English Studies: New Research. Eds. Sara Martin and David Owen, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, pp. 49-59)
The (Heart of) Darkness Revisited: Conrad’s Haunting Themes of Identity, Intertextuality, Isolation in Teju Cole’s Open City. Presentation at Association of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies (ASYRAS), Autonomous University of Barcelona. January 2017.
