Jessica D. Adams Stone
jessica.adams@upr.edu
Office #320
Extension #88912
Jessica Adams is an associate professor of English in the College of General Studies, UPR-RP. She holds a PhD in English from Tulane University, a JD from the University of Puerto Rico, and a BA in English from Bryn Mawr College. She served as editor of the journal Caribbean Studies from August 2023 to December 2024 and is a member of the editorial board of Sargasso. Her publications include Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Post-Slavery Plantation (University of North Carolina Press, 2007); Guantánamo and American Empire: The Humanities Respond, co-edited with Don E. Walicek (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South, co-edited with Michael P. Bibler and Cécile Accilien (University of Virginia Press, 2007); Revolutionary Freedoms: A History of Survival, Strength, and Imagination in Haiti, co-edited with Cécile Accilien and Elmide Méléance (Caribbean Studies Press, 2006); and a new scholarly edition of Arna Bontemps’s novel of Haiti, Drums at Dusk, co-edited with Michael P. Bibler (Louisiana State University Press, 2009). She has published numerous articles and book chapters, and her short fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of journals.