Dr Eleanor K. Jones BA, MA, PhD
Lecturer in Portuguese and World Literatures

Dr Eleanor K. Jones is a Lecturer in Portuguese and World Literatures within Modern Languages at the University of Southampton.
Following a BA and MA focused on Portuguese-speaking cultures, I specialised in one of the countries of Portuguese-speaking Africa – Mozambique – for my doctoral research. During and after my doctorate, completed at the University of Manchester, I also taught courses on cultures from around the Portuguese-speaking world at both Manchester and at the Universities of Sheffield and Birmingham, before joining Southampton in September 2016.
I published the book Battleground Bodies: Gender and Sexuality in Mozambican Literature, in 2017. It explores the representation and use of the body in Mozambican cultural history and literature. My current research focus is on disability, white supremacy and colonialism in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. In general, my research centres on comparative African literatures and histories; critical theory; disability, white supremacy, sexuality & colonialism; and the history of colonial science, especially psychiatry.
I am always keen to hear from potential postgraduate students looking for supervision along these thematic lines, including in collaboration with colleagues from my own department and others in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.