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| Joseph R. Winters, Assistant Professor
 - Contact Info:
Teaching (Summer2 2025):
- Religion 248.01, Hip hop, futurism
Synopsis
- Online on, MTuTh 12:30 PM-02:35 PM
- (also cross-listed as AAAS 248.01, ENGLISH 299.01, GSF 295.01)
Teaching (Fall 2025):
- Religion 399s.01, Baldwin and morrison
Synopsis
- Gray 220, M 03:20 PM-05:50 PM
- (also cross-listed as AAAS 322S.01, ENGLISH 380S.01, GSF 402S.01)
- Religion 912s.01, Theorizing religion
Synopsis
- Allen 306, W 10:20 AM-12:50 PM
- Education:
| Ph.D. | Princeton University | 2009 |
| B.A. | Harvard University | 1999 |
- Specialties:
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Religion
Culture
American Religious History
- Research Interests: Religion and Critical Theory; African American Religious Thought; African American Literature; Continental Philosophy
Current projects:
I am currently starting a project on hip hop, religion, and literature. My research interests lie at the intersection of modern religious thought, African American religious thought, and critical theory. My work contributes to recent endeavors to re-imagine and expand our understanding of black religion, black piety, and black cultural practices. Using a dialogical approach, I examine black religious and literary thought in conversation with critical theory and continental philosophy. My research also draws from theories and approaches to religious studies.
My first book, Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress (Duke UP, 2016) challenges racial progress narratives by examining the relationship between remembrance, loss, and hope in black literature and aesthetic practices.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Recent Publications
- Zamalin, A; Winters, JR; Olson, A; Njoya, W. "Toni Morrison and political theory." Contemporary Political Theory vol. 19 no. 4 (December, 2020): 704-729. [doi]
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