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About Jordan Taliha McDonald
Jordan Taliha McDonald is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Harvard University with a secondary field in History of Science. Her research interests include 19th and 20th-century Black/Afro-diasporic literature, Black feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism, global Black rhetorics, animality studies, the history of aesthetic surgery, and philosophies of betrayal and complicity.
NBN Episodes hosted by Jordan:
August 29, 2025
Engendering Blackness
In Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence (Stanford UP, 2025) Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between se…
July 18, 2025
Underworld Work
A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orle…
December 30, 2024
Cervantine Blackness
There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author’s compelling l…
October 3, 2024
Like Children
Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America (NYU Press, 2024) argues that the child has been the key figure giving measure an…