Meadow Jones, Ph.D. is a feminist researcher, writer, teacher, and social practice artist working across trauma, care, disability, pedagogy, archive, and technology. Her work uses artistic, material, and socially based practices toward the individual and collective redress of trauma and structural violence.
As a working-class, disabled, first-generation scholar, Jones builds inclusive, embodied communities of engaged practice through writing workshops, social practice projects, public readings, exhibitions, and long-duration creative gatherings. Her forthcoming monograph, Archiving the Trauma Diaspora, develops a theory of affective artifacts and arts-based research, integrating critical trauma studies, disability studies, queer theory, and intersectional feminist approaches to data and technology.
Her recent postdoctoral work at UCLA DataX and the Department of Gender Studies extended this research into questions of data, technology, mediation, disability, and community-based practice.
Her work has been published in literary journals, peer-reviewed journals, poetry collections, books, and chapbooks, including The Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking, Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers in Art Education, Sensoria: A Journal of Mind, Brain & Culture, Ninth Letter, The Feminist Wire, and AWA Press.
Her practice spans many contexts: she is a facilitator at the Gesundheit Institute and the School for Designing a Society, a collaborator with Prop Theatre, and a board member of Amherst Writers & Artists. She facilitates arts-based writing and healing workshops with caregivers, trauma survivors, disabled people, artists, activists, students, teachers, doctors, medical students, and community members navigating grief, illness, violence, displacement, and structural harm.
Meadow ex machina is her studio, archive, and machine room: a site for writing, teaching archives, social practice documentation, digital residue, workshop materials, and experiments in mediated thinking.
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