Robert Reid-Pharr

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.

Career

In 2016 he was named a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and visiting professor of gender and sexuality at Harvard University."Robert F. Reid-Pharr."
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'', ''Social Text'', ''African American Review'', ''American Literary History'', ''AfterImage'', '' Radical America'', and '' American Literature''. He has been a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.Bogliasco Foundation - Fellows
In 2015 he was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars."Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars to induct 15 new members."
''Johns Hopkins Magazine'' 09 April 2015.

Reid-Pharr has taught at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, the University of Oregon, the University of Oxford, the American University of Beirut, Swarthmore College, and the College of William and Mary. His collection of essays ''Black, Gay, Man: Essays'' won the 2002 Randy Shilts Award for Best Gay Non-fiction given by the Publishing Triangle. His book ''Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual'' was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.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. 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
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) ()
*''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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