Jones was a Professor of Theatre at Fordham University on the Lincoln Center Campus from 2008-2022, attaining the rank of Tenured Full Professor. There he headed the undergraduate playwriting track, taught courses in playwriting, solo performance, theatre history, and, cross-listed with African American Studies, taught a course called Young, Gifted and Black which examined the lives and creative contributions of young artists in the Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement through to the current day. Jones previously taught at University of Texas at Austin, Goddard College, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
