Research Interests for Wahneema H. Lubiano

Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and 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. Lubiano, W, ‘Stuart Hall’ (Wahneema Lubiano Comments, Stuart Hall Event, 17 March 2014), Cultural Studies, vol. 29 no. 1 (January, 2015), pp. 12-16, Informa UK Limited [doi]
2. Lubiano, W, "But compared to what?" Reading realism, representation, and essentialism in School Daze, do the right thing, and the spike lee discourse, in Representing Black Men (January, 2014), pp. 173-204, ISBN 9781315865942
3. Lubiano, W, Affect and rearticulating the racial "un-sayables", Cultural Anthropology, vol. 28 no. 3 (August, 2013), pp. 540-543, WILEY [pdf], [doi]
4. Hardt, M; Lubiano, W, Obama and the Left at Midterm, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 110 no. 1 (2011), pp. 233-234, Duke University Press [doi]
5. 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