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:

Camille Owens, "Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America" (NYU Press, 2024)

October 3, 2024

Like Children

Camille Owens

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…