Ashon T. Crawley is an American scholar of religion and author. He is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African American and African Studies at the
University of Virginia and author of ''Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility'' on aesthetics and performance as modes of social imagination, and ''The Lonely Letters'', an epistolary, semi-autobiographical work on love, blackness, mysticism, and quantum theory.
''The Lonely Letters'' won the 2021
Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction
and the
Believer Book Award Believer Book Award is an American literary award presented yearly by '' The Believer'' magazine to novels and story collections, nonfiction books or essay collections, poetry collections, and, beginning in 2021 (awarding to books published in 2020) ...
for nonfiction
Crawley is currently working on two books about the
Hammond Organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...
’s historical role in the Black Church and social life.
Education
Crawley earned a
bachelor of arts from the
University of Pennsylvania in 2003, then received a
master of theological studies from
Emory University in 2007.
In 2013, completed his PhD at
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
.
Bibliography
* ''Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility'', published October 3, 2016 by
Fordham University Press
* ''The Lonely Letters'', published April 10, 2020 by
Duke University Press
Awards and honors
References
External links
Official websiteCrawley reading from ''The Lonely Letters''
Appearances
on NPR
Writing
for the '' Los Angeles Review of Books''
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University of Virginia faculty
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Emory University alumni
Duke University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people