Robert Reid-Pharr

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Robert Reid-Pharr
Reid-Pharr in 2007
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina
Occupations
  • Critic
  • professor

Robert Reid-Pharr is an American literary and cultural critic and professor.

Early life and education

A native North Carolinian, Reid-Pharr holds a B.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and both an M.A. in African American studies and a Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University.[1]

Career

In 2016, he was named a fellow of the

Callaloo, Social Text, African American Review, American Literary History, AfterImage, Radical America, and American Literature.[1] He has been a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.[3][5] In 2015, he was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars.[6]

Reid-Pharr has taught at the

Lambda Literary Award.[8] He is also the author of Conjugal Union:The Body, the House, and the Black American (Oxford University Press, 1999); and Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique (NYU 2016) for which he received an honorable mention for the 2017 William Sanders Scarborough Prize of the Modern Language Association.[9]

He is considered a "queer public intellectual" who "attempts to write noncompliance with heteronormativity, and affirmation of other ways of being, into existence"[10]

Selected bibliography

  • Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American (
    ISBN 978-0195104028
    )
  • Black Gay Man: Essays (with introduction by
    ISBN 978-0814775035
    )
  • Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (
    ISBN 978-0814775844
    )
  • Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain and Post-Humanist Critique (
    ISBN 978-1479843626
    )

References

  1. ^ a b "Robert Reid-Pharr". Harvard University: Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality faculty profile. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Robert Reid-Pharr Named 2016 Matthiessen Professor". Harvard Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Harvard University. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "Robert F. Reid-Pharr." John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - Fellows.
  4. ^ Dixon, Brandon J. (29 June 2018). "Gender Studies Appoints Robert Reid-Pharr to Professorship". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  5. ^ Bogliasco Foundation - Fellows.
  6. ^ "Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars to induct 15 new members." Johns Hopkins Magazine 09 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Publishing Triangle - Awards Overview". Archived from the original on 2017-08-22. Retrieved 2017-08-23.
  8. ^ NYU Press publication page for 2007 publication: Reid-Pharr, Robert. Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual. New York: New York University Press, 2007.
  9. ^ NYU Press publication page for 2016 publication: Reid-Pharr, Robert. Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique. New York: New York University Press, 2016.
  10. ISBN 9780814757130
    . Retrieved 27 July 2017 – via Google Books.

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