Lacey Jones

Lacey Jones is a PhD candidate in English and Religious Studies at Yale University and the Humanities in Medicine Fellow at Yale Medical School. Her dissertation, “Breakdown: Modernity’s Metafictions,” takes up the strange case of the word breakdown’s double meaning: physical decay and mental undoing. She is particularly interested in aesthetic movements where the relationship between these forms of decomposition exceeds mere metaphor. You can find her academic work in Literature and Theology, her poetry in Image, and her fiction in The Kenyon Review.