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I am a scholar and teacher of black literature and culture, critical theory, social technologies, and popular culture. I teach in the departments of African American Studies and English at Northwestern University.
My first book, Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity, was awarded the Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature or Culture.
Currently, I am working on two projects. The first, Habeas Viscus: Race, Bare Life, and the Human, concerns the relationship between black studies, political violence, and alternate conceptions of humanity. The second, Modernity Hesitant: The Civilizational Diagnostics of W.E.B. Du Bois and Walter Benjamin, tracks the different ways in which these thinkers imagine the marginal as central to the workings of modern civilization.
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