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Alexander Ghedi Weheliye
is a writer, professor, and curator focusing on Black Studies, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, social technologies, and popular culture. Currently, they are Malcolm S. Forbes Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Weheliye previously held faculty positions in the African American Studies Department at Northwestern University and in the English Department at SUNY Stony Brook.
is a writer, professor, and curator focusing on Black Studies, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, social technologies, and popular culture. Currently, they are Malcolm S. Forbes Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Weheliye previously held faculty positions in the African American Studies Department at Northwestern University and in the English Department at SUNY Stony Brook.
Weheliye was born in Nordhausen, East Germany and grew up in Mogadishu, Somalia and West-Berlin, Germany. Weheliye received his BA from the Freie Universität, Berlin and his MA and Ph.D. from Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Weheliye was born in Nordhausen, East Germany and grew up in Mogadishu, Somalia and West-Berlin, Germany. Weheliye received his BA from the Freie Universität, Berlin and his MA and Ph.D. from Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
They are the author of three books: Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (Duke University Press, 2005), which was awarded The Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature or Culture, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (Duke University Press, 2014), and Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology (Duke University Press, 2023). As part of the Practicing Refusal Collective Weheliye is co-editor of Thinking from Black: A Lexicon. Weheliye has also published numerous articles, some of which can be found here
They are the author of three books: Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (Duke University Press, 2005), which was awarded The Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature or Culture, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (Duke University Press, 2014), and Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology (Duke University Press, 2023). As part of the Practicing Refusal Collective Weheliye is co-editor of Thinking from Black: A Lexicon. Weheliye has also published numerous articles, some of which can be found here
Currently, Weheliye is working on two projects. The first, Between Continents, is a critical memoir about their early life in East Germany and Somalia. The second, Schwarz-Sein: Black Life beyond the Human, reimagines the periodic table of elements from the vantage point of Black queer life. They are co-curator of the group exhibition, Exposure: Black Queer Visual Constellations at Cohen Gallery, Brown University (April-June 2026) and organizer of Exposure: Black Queer Visual Constellations: A Symposium (2026). Currently, they are president-elect of the American Studies Association.
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