Department/College/UnitHumanities Division

TitleProfessor

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationLegal Studies
Humanities Division

Primary Office LocationHumanities Building 1
338

Office HoursBy appt only

Mail StopHumanities Academic Services

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Research Interests

Africana literary and cultural studies, legal theory, popular culture

Selected Publications

• Books
• Prison as a Border. (in progress)
• Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of Anthropology. Duke University Press (forthcoming).
• Editor, Black Popular Culture. Seattle: Bay Press, 1992; New York: New Press, 1999.
• Articles
• “Michael Joo,” in Elaine Kim and Margo Machida, eds., Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Asian American Issues in the Contemporary Visual Arts. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2003
• Co-author with Angela Y. Davis, “Prison as a Border: A Conversation on Gender, Globalization and Punishment,” Signs: Journal of Women and Culture Vol. 26 No. 4; Summer, 2001.
• “A New York Story,” catalogue essay for the exhibition Inclusion/Exclusion. Graz, Austria. 1997.
• “Rita Dove” and “Jamaica Kincaid” (literary biographies) in Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History New York: Macmillan Library Reference. 1996.
• “Missionary Position” in Rebecca Walker, ed., To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism. New York: Anchor/Doubleday. 1995.
• “Race and Racism: A Symposium,” Social Text. Vol. 42. Spring, 1995