CC Jones specializes in the comparative philosophy of religion, specifically of Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist conceptions of cosmology and theodicy and their relation to similar ideas in modern European philosophy and literature. They have additional interests in 20th and 21st century material cultures of horror, fictional religious traditions, Dark Academia, queer theory, historical linguistics, psychoanalysis, and Greek, Roman, and Etruscan cultural reception. They received both of their doctorates— in Religion, Philosophy & Visual Culture and in Comparative Literature— from the University of Chicago. They are currently writing a work of theory-fiction on the relationship between Orthodox Christian mysticism, Weird fiction, and astrology, as well as a philosophical history of the alien.