Research Interests for Wahneema Lubiano

Associate Professor of Literature (Ph.D., Stanford, 1987). Before coming to Duke she taught at Princeton, the University of Texas at Austin, and Williams College. Her essays and articles have been published in Social Text, Cultural Critique, boundary 2, American Literary History, Callaloo, New Engladn Quarterly, among other publications. She is author of the forthcoming books Messing With the Machine: Politics, Form and African-American Fiction and Like Being Mugged by a Metaphor: "Deep Cover" and Other "Black" Fictions, and editor of The House That Race Built: Black Americans, U.S. Terrain (1996). Her current research interests include African-American literature, African-American popular culture and film, womens' studies, black intellectual history, and nationalism.

Recent Publications

1. W. Lubiano with Jeremy Dean, "Black Studies, Multiculturalism, and Airport Bookshops: An Interview with Wahneema Lubiano", e3w Review of Books, vol. 8 (Spring, 2008), pp. 56-59, University of Texas, Austin
2. with Black Studies, Multiulturalism, and Airport Bookshops: An Interview with Wahneema Lubiano, e3w Review of Books, vol. 8 (Spring, 2008), pp. 56-59
3. W. Lubiano, "Race, Class, and the Politics of Death" (revised & reprinted), in Capitalizing on Catastrophe: The Globalization of Disaster Assistance, edited by Mark Schuller & Nandini Gunewardena (2008), AltaMira Press
4. R. Wiegman, W. Lubiano, and M. Hardt, "In the Afterlife of the Duke Case", Social Text, vol. 25 no. 4 (2007), pp. 1-16
5. W. Lubiano with Angie Chambram-Dernersesian, "Interview with Wahneema Lubiano", in The Chicano Cultural Studies Forum: Critical and Ethnographic Retrospectives, edited by Angie Chambram-Dernersesian (2007), New York University Press, New York, New York