new Ph.D. program in african american studies
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, a landmark new collection (due out this fall) is co-edited by Northwestern University's E. Patrick Johnson The academy is witnessing an exciting new moment for Black Queer Studies. Northwestern University's department of African American Studies, whose faculty include Darlene Clark Hine, Dwight McBride, E. Patrick Johnson, Jennifer Brody, John Keene, Alexander Weheliye and Sandra L. Richards, has instituted a new Ph.D. program in African American Studies.
Northwestern is now the sixth institution in the U.S. that currently offers a doctoral degree in African American Studies: Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Temple, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, all currently have programs.
Graduate courses set to be offered in Northwestern's new program include "Issues in Black Queer Studies", "Black Feminist Theory", "Figurations of Humanity in Afro-Diasporic Literature and Culture"," Black Independent Film and Video", "Black British Cultural Studies", "The Aporetic Ideal: Blackness and Silence in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory", "Transnational Black Politics", "Seminar in African Philosophy", and "Black Internationalism in the Twentieth Century", to name a few.
The department's chair and graduate director is Dwight A. McBride, a literary scholar whose publications include Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism and Slave Testimony (NYU Press, 2000), Black Like Us: A Century of Black Gay and Lesbian Fiction (Cleis Press, 2002) and Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sex in the U.S (NYU Press, 2005).
The program will feature five full years of funding for admitted students, including three years of summer support. The department also offers important postdoctoral fellowships. Full information can be found at
http://www.afam.northwestern.edu/grad.html
You might want to pass the information along to any scholars applying to graduate school this fall. Requirements for consideration for admission include substantial undergraduate or graduate coursework related to African American Studies; GRE scores, letters of recommendation and scholarly writing sample.
This is indeed excellent news! About time too.
Posted by
qta |
10/14/2005
This is great news! Thanks for putting it out there in the world. And thanks for the comment; I thought I should drop by and say hi as well, and I'm so glad I did.
Posted by
Violet Vixen |
10/14/2005