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Mark Anthony Neal

Associate Professor

Mark Anthony Neal is currently Associate Professor of Black Popular Culture in the department of African and African-American Studies (AAAS) at Duke University. Dr. Neal previously held tenured associate professor positions at The University of Texas, Austin and the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Neal also taught as an assistant professor at Xavier University, a historically black institution in New Orleans. He is a native of the place affectionately known as the “boogie-down” Bronx, NY.

Neal's scholarly interests are in black popular culture, black gender and queer theory, and black intellectual production. He is the author of four books, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003) and New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005). Neal is also the co-editor (with Murray Forman) of That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2004). Neal is currently working on two books—Thug Nigga Intellectual (under contract with New York University Press) and Street Songs: Post-Civil Rights Desire, Corporate America, and the R&B Nation

In addition to his publication history, Dr. Neal is also a widely sought lecturer who has delivered over fifty lectures at his alma maters, the University of Pennsylvania, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Case Western, Morgan State, Harvard, Princeton, George Mason, and Carnegie Mellon. Neal is also a regular commentator on National Public Radio’s News and Notes with Ed Gordon and several on-line media outlets, including Popmatters.com and SeeingBlack.com. Dr. Neal uses these venues to further his scholarship and activism, and is among several black scholars engaged in a critical examination of black culture and the problematics of masculinity, homophobia, and misogyny. Neal also maintains a blog at http:// newblackman.blogspot.com .

Neal resides with his wife of 15 years, Gloria Taylor-Neal, two daughters, Misha Gabrielle (age 7) and Camille Monet (age 3) and a dog named Luther.

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