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Alexander G WeheliyeJudd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Weinberg Social Sciences, African AmericanStudies

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Email: [email protected] Experts URL: http://www.scholars.northwestern.edu//expert.asp?n=Alexander+G+Weheliye&u_id=2571 Vivo URI: http://vivo.scholars.northwestern.edunorthwestern/individual/n2571

Research Statement

African American and Afro-Diasporic Literatures and Cultures; Critical Theory; Popular Culture; History and Theory of Information Technologies; German Studies (modern German philosophy and literature, minority discourse in Germany);Post-Colonial Studies.

Education

1999 Ph.D., Department of English, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

1995 MA, with special concentration on African American Literature and Culture, Department of English,Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

1992 BA, American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute for American Studies, Free University Berlin

Employment, Positions & Ongoing Activities

2014 - Professor, African American Studies and English, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

2013 - Director of Graduate Studies and Vice Chair, Department of African American Studies, NorthwesternUniversity, Evanston, IL

2009 - 2012 Director: Program in Critical Theory, Northwestern University

2007 - 2008 Director of Graduate Studies and Vice Chair, Department of African American Studies, NorthwesternUniversity, Evanston, IL

2006 - 2014 Associate Professor of African American Studies and English, Northwestern University, Evanston,IL

2000 - 2006 Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston,IL

1999 - 2000 Assistant Professor of English, The State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY

1993 - 1999 Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, NewBrunswick

Awards and Honors

2014 Faculty Honor Roll, Allied Student Government, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

2007 Northwestern University Faculty Research Grant

2006 Faculty affiliate, The Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities Northwestern University,2006-2007

2006 Winner of the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize, for an outstanding

scholarly study of black American literature or culture for Phonographies2004 Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Fund Research Grant, Northwestern University

2001 The Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities Junior Faculty Fellowship, NorthwesternUniversity, 2001-2002

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1997 Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers University,1997-1998

1995 Dissertation Fellowship, Department of English, Rutgers University, 1995-1996

1995 Marcus E. Bewley Prize, for best paper written during coursework in the English Graduate Programat Rutgers University

1992 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship for American Studies, 1992-1993

29 Publications

14 Scopus and Journal Publications

2015 Alexander G. Weheliye

Diagrammatics as physiognomy: W. E. B. Du Bois's Graphic modernities

New Centennial Review. 2015;15(2):23-58.

2014 Alexander G. Weheliye Engendering phonographies: sonic technologies of blackness

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 2014;18(2 44):180-190.


Introduction: Black Studies and Black Life

The Black Scholar, Special Issue on States of Black Studies. 2014;44(2):5-10.


Post-integration blues: Black Geeks and Afro-diasporic humanism

Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon. 2013:213-234.

2012 Alexander G Weheliye

Race for Life

Social Text: Periscope. 2012.


Pornotropes

Journal of Visual Culture. 2008;7(1):65-81.


After man American Literary History. 2008;20(1-2):321-336.


These—are—the breaks: a roundtable discussion on teaching the post-soul aesthetic

African American Review. 2007;41(4):787-803.


A New Groove: Black Culture And Technology Development

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. 2005.


The grooves of temporality

Public Culture. 2005 17 2 :319-338.

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"I am I be": The subject of sonic Afro-modernity

Boundary 2. 2003;30(2):97-114.


Feenin: Posthuman Voices in Black Popular Music

Social Text. 2002;71:21-47.


Keepin' It (un) Real: Perusing the Boundaries of Hip-Hop Culture

CR: The New Centennial Review. 2001;1(2):291-310.


In the Mix: Hearing the Souls of Black Folks

American Studies/Amerikastudien. 2000;45(4):535-554.

2 Books


Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of theHuman

Duke University Press; 2014.


Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity Durham, NC: Duke University Press; 2005.

5 Book Chapters


Post-Integration Blues: Black Geeks and Afro-Diasporic Humanism

Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon. King L, Moody-Turner S, editors. IndianaUniversity Press; 2013.


Foreword

Little Book of Big Visions: How to be an Artist and Revolutionize the World. Micossé-Aikins S, Otoo SD,editors. Edition Assemblage; 2012.


Nation, Kolonialismus, und Volk

Afrika und die deutsche Sprache Ein kritisches Nachschlagewerk. Arndt S, Hornscheidt A, editors. Unrast Verlag; 2011.

2009 Alexander G. Weheliye My Volk to Come: Specters of Peoplehood in recent Diaspora Discourse and Afro-German

Popular Music

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Black Europe and the African Diaspora. Keaton T, Small S, Clarke Hine D, editors. Urbana, IL: Universityof Illinois Press; 2009. p. 161-179.


Mein Volk, das es so noch nicht gibt

Re/visionen: Postkoloniale Perspektiven von People of Color auf Rassismus, Kulturpolitik und Widerstandin Deutschland. Nghi Ha K, al-Samarai N, Mysorekar S, editors. Unrast Verlag; 2007.

8 Other Written Works


On blackness and being American

Chicago Reporter. (2014).

1 Other


Popular orientalism(s) #2: sonic alterity – race, orientalism and popular music

Norient - Network for Local and Global Sounds and Media Culture. (2014).

1 Reference Work


Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies. (2014). Sumanth Gopinath, Jason Stanyek (Eds.), vol 2,

Oxford University Press: 361-380.

2 Reviews


Review of Black France/France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness, edited by TricaDanielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall

The Black Scholar, Special Issue: In Memoriam: Robert Chrisman, 1937-2013. (2013). 43(3), 92-94.


Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music

African American Review. (2011). 44(3), 525-526.

3 Webpages


'Ich will mich nicht ausgrenzen.' Alexander G. Weheliye im Gespräch mit demHipHop-Pionier Moses Pelham

Dossier: HipHop: Zwischen Mainstream und Jugendprotest, Heinrich Böll Stiftung: Migration - Integration – Diversity. (2006).

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2007 - 2008 Vice-Chair and Director, Graduate Studies, Department of African American Studies, NorthwesternUniversity

2006 - 2008 Member, Undergraduate program committee, African American Studies Department, NorthwesternUniversity

2006 - 2007 Chair, Postdoctoral Fellowship committee, Department of African American Studies, NorthwesternUniversity

2006 - 2007 Member, Graduate program committee, Department of English, Northwestern University

2006 - 2007 Member, Steering committee, The German Interdisciplinary Group2005 - 2006 Member, Graduate admissions committee, Department of English, Northwestern University

2005 Member, Northwestern University Minority Fellowship (NUMF) Selection Committee, NorthwesternUniversity


2003 Examiner, Four second-year qualifying exams in American literature, Department of English,Northwestern University

2002 - 2005 Freshman Adviser, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University


2001 - 2004 Faculty affiliate, Center for Law, Culture and Social Thought, Northwestern University

2000 - 2005 Founder and organizer, Northwestern Theory Reading Group, Northwestern University

2000 - 2001 Member, Undergraduate program committee, Department of English, Northwestern University

Languages

Arabic, Italian, Somali, and Spanish (Experience)

English and German (Fluent)

French (Proficient)

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