Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús

Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús is an Acting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University. His work focuses on 20th-century continental philosophy, Caribbean Studies, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and theories of modernity and temporality. He currently leads two book projects: Unworldly Islands: Non-Sovereign Poetics and Caribbean Life and Another Bio-politics: Deconstructing Life for Democracy’s Survival. His first monograph, Catastrophic Historicism: Reading Julia de Burgos Dangerously (2023), rethinks literary history through analysis of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos. His essays appear in journals like Qui Parle, Small Axe, and Centro Journal.

His research integrates critical theory with Caribbean cultural production, interrogating postcolonial sovereignty frameworks and reimagining democratic concepts of life. Office located at S407 Callaway.