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Jonathan Correa Reyes
Assistant Professor
Clemson University
Education/Degree:
1 Comparative Literature Comparative Literature (The Pennsylvania State University)
About
I am Jonathan F. Correa-Reyes, an Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature. I joined the Department of English at Clemson University in the Fall of 2023. I earned my doctorate in Comparative Literature from The Pennsylvania State University in the Summer of 2023. I also hold an MA in Viking and Medieval Norse Studies, a degree awarded jointly by the University of Iceland and Aarhus University.
Besides my research and my teaching, I am passionate about social justice in higher education and beyond. I have spear-headed initiatives to increase equity and diversity at the different institutions I've belonged to. Additionally, I have years of experience working with incarcerated students.
Since 2022, I am also the founder and co-producer of a podcast series, "The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast." Through this platform we aim to bridge the gap between the academy and the wider public to broadly cultivate awareness about diversity in the Middle Ages (understood globally).
Current Work
My research focuses on constructions of collective identity in medieval literary sources. I am especially interested in pre-modern articulations of race and understandings of the Human. Although mainly working on the medieval literary traditions of the British Isles, I also study the textual cultures of medieval Iberia and Scandinavia.
I am passionate about languages, and work with sources written in Old and Middle English, Old Icelandic, Spanish, Latin, and Arabic (which I've been able to study thanks to a FLAS scholarship from the United States Department of Education).
I approach medieval literary sources by first asking how does a given text articulate a "genre of Man," a concept I borrow and adapt from Jamaican critic Sylvia Wynter. I then map how different bodies and subjectivities in a narrative are situated within a spectrum of relative humanization. My work has been supported by the Ford Foundation.
I am also interested in Memory Studies and Game Theory.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Medieval literature, Critical Race Theory, Pre-modern Critical Race Theory, Game Theory, Memory Studies