Houston A Baker, Susan Fox Beischer & George D. Beischer Arts & Sciences Professor of English and Susan Fox Professor of African & African American Studies

Please note: Houston has left the "African & African American Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	302 Allen Bldg
Office Phone:	+1 919 684 2110
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/~bakerh

Education:

Ph.D.	University of California at Los Angeles	1968
One year of doctoral work	University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland	1967
M.A.	University of California at Los Angeles	1966
B.A.	Howard University, Washington, DC (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)	1965

Specialties:

African American Literature

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Eden Osucha  
• Mendi Lewis  
• Jené L. Schoenfeld  
• Lauren Coats  
• Genevieve Abravanel  
• Christian Campbell  
• Alex Feerst  
• Eden Osucha  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South (Fall, 2005), Oxford University Press (manuscript submitted.)
2. Houston A. Baker, Jr., The Betrayal of the Black Intellectuals: Afro-American Public Intellectuals in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Fall, 2005), Columbia University Press (Manuscript due to editor by summer 2006.)
3. Houston A. Baker, Jr., special issue editor, Erasing the Commas: RaceGenderClassSexualityRegion, American Literature (March, 2005) [books.php3]  [abs]
4. Afterword, in New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement, edited by Margo Crawford & Lisa Gail Collins (2005), Rutgers University Press
5. Houston A. Baker, Jr., Coltrane, Peeled Oranges, Cosmopolitanism, and a Last(ing) Word on Derrida, "Forum" on Jacques Derrida, PMLA (Winter, 2004)