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 Houston A Baker
Susan Fox Beischer & George D. Beischer Arts & Sciences Professor of English and Professor of African and African American Studies
Email Address: houston.a.baker@vanderbilt.edu
- Education:
- Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
One year of doctoral work, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
M.A., University of California at Los Angeles
B.A., Howard University, Washington, DC (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)
- Specialties:
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African American Literature
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Houston Baker has taught at Yale, the University of Virginia,
and the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Duke
English Department faculty in 1999. Commencing his
career as a scholar of British Victorian literature, he made a
career shift to the study and scholarship of Afro-American
Literature and Culture during the early 1970s. He is the
author of articles, essays, and reviews in Victorian,
American, and Afro-American literatures and cultures. He
has authored a number of critical and scholarly books and
studies of Afro-American literature and culture, including:
Blues, Ideology and Afro-American Literature;
Workings of the Sprit: The Poetics of Afro-American
Women's Writing; Modernism and the Harlem
Renaissance; Black Studies, Rap and the
Academy. He has held visiting posts and presented
visiting lectures at a number of universities in the United
States and abroad. In 1992, he served as President of the
Modern Language Association, the most influential learned
society in the humanities. He is currently Editor of the
journal American Literature, founded at Duke in
1929, and edited a Special Issue entitled "Unsettling
Blackness." His current projects include: a study of Afro-
Modernism and the legacy of Booker T. Washington and
Tuskegee Institute; a memoir in progress; a book devoted
to modernism and the responsibilities of black intellectuals
in the United States. His most recent books include:
Critical Memory (University of Georgia Press) and
Turning South Again: Rethinking Modernism/Rereading
Booker T. (Duke University), and a volume of poetry
titled Passing Over .
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South. Oxford University Press, Fall, 2005. (manuscript submitted)
- Houston A. Baker, Jr.. The Betrayal of the Black Intellectuals: Afro-American Public Intellectuals in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Columbia University Press, Fall, 2005. (Manuscript due to editor by summer 2006)
- Houston A. Baker, Jr., special issue editor. Erasing the Commas: RaceGenderClassSexualityRegion. American Literature
(March, 2005). [books.php3] [abs]
- "Afterword." New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement. Ed. Margo Crawford & Lisa Gail Collins. Rutgers University Press,
2005.
- Houston A. Baker, Jr.. "Coltrane, Peeled Oranges, Cosmopolitanism, and a Last(ing) Word on Derrida." PMLA"Forum" on Jacques Derrida, (Winter, 2004).
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