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Robert Reid-Pharr is an American
literary
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and
cultural critic
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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
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at Chapel Hill, and both an M.A. in African American studies and a Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University.
Career
In 2016 he was named a fellow of the
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
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and visiting professor of gender and sexuality at
Harvard University
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.
["Robert F. Reid-Pharr."](_blank)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - Fellows. In 2018, Reid-Pharr became Harvard's first professor of studies of women, gender, and sexuality.
His essays have appeared in ''
Callaloo
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'', ''
Social Text
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'', ''
African American Review
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The journal has featured writers and cultural c ...
'', ''
American Literary History
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'', ''
AfterImage
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'', ''
Radical America'', and ''
American Literature''.
He has been a fellow of the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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, the
Bogliasco Foundation
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, and the
National Endowment for the Humanities
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.
[Bogliasco Foundation - Fellows](_blank)
In 2015 he was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars.
["Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars to induct 15 new members."](_blank)
''Johns Hopkins Magazine'' 09 April 2015.
Reid-Pharr has taught at the
Graduate Center, CUNY
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,
Johns Hopkins University
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, the
University of Chicago
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, the
University of Oregon
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, the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
, the
American University of Beirut,
Swarthmore College, and the
College of William and Mary
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.
His collection of essays ''Black, Gay, Man: Essays'' won the 2002
Randy Shilts Award
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Winn ...
for Best Gay Non-fiction given by the
Publishing Triangle
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.
His book ''Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual'' was a finalist for a
Lambda Literary Award
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.
[NYU Press](_blank)
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. 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.
[NYU Press](_blank)
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.
He is considered a "queer public intellectual" who "attempts to write noncompliance with
heteronormativity, and affirmation of other ways of being, into existence"
Selected bibliography
*''Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American'' ()
*''Black Gay Man: Essays'' (with introduction by
Samuel R. Delany
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) ()
*''Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual'' ()
*''Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain and Post-Humanist Critique'' ()
References
External links
CUNY Graduate Center Faculty homepage
Robert Reid-Pharr Harvard homepage
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Living people
Queer theorists
Philosophers of sexuality
Gender studies academics
American literary critics
LGBT African Americans
LGBT people from North Carolina
Graduate Center, CUNY faculty
Johns Hopkins University faculty
University of Chicago faculty
University of Oregon faculty
Swarthmore College faculty
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Yale University alumni
African-American academics
American LGBT writers
Queer men
Queer writers
Year of birth missing (living people)