Alexander Weheliye

Associate Professor of English & African American Studies

University Hall Room 328
Telephone: (847) 491-4863
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: a-weheliye@northwestern.edu

Alexander G. Weheliye (Ph.D. Rutgers University) teaches African American and Afro-Diasporic Literature and Culture, Critical Theory, and Popular Culture. He is the author of 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. Currently, he is working on two projects. The first, Technologies of Humanity concerns the vexed category of the human in modernity as it pertains to Afro-Diasporic culture. 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. His work has been published in Amerikastudien/American Studies, boundary 2, CR: The New Centennial Review, Public Culture, and Social Text, Diverse Magazine, the anthology re/visionen: Postkoloniale Perspektiven von People of Color auf Rassismus, Kulturpolitik und Widerstand in Deutschland and the migration and diversity website of the Heinrich Boell Stiftung:

http://www.migration-boell.de/web/diversity/48_394.asp
http://www.migration-boell.de/web/diversity/48_606.asp
http://www.migration-boell.de/web/integration/47_924.asp

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