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Corey D. B. Walker

Associate Professor of Africana Studies

Corey D. B. Walker (Ph.D. The College of William and Mary, 2001) is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Africana philosophy, critical theory, modern theology, and cultural studies. His research revolves around a series of critical investigations into the philosophical and theological problems of modern thought and political practice.

Selected Honors and Awards:

  • Sesquicentennial Associateship, University of Virginia 2006-2007
  • Ford Foundation Fellowship, Ford Foundation and National Research Council 2000-2002
  • Summer Research Fellowship, The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia 2000
  • Research Travel Fellowship, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2000
  • Stephen J. Wright Commonwealth Graduate Fellowship, The College of William and Mary, 1999-2000
  • Bellevue Heights American Baptist Foundation Seminary Fellowship, Virginia Union University, 1996-1997

Representative Publications:

Books:

  • Between Transcendence and History: Critical Theology and the Politics of Liberation (in progress)
  • A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008).

Articles

  • "The Infinite Rehearsals of the Critique of Religion:  Theological Thinking After Humanism,” boundary 2 35.3 (Fall 2008).
  •  (with Peter Heltzel), "The Wound of Political Theology," Political Theology 9.2 (2008).
  • "The Specter of Democracy: King, Tocqueville, and the Im/Possibility of American Democracy," Les Cahiers Charles V:L'objet identité: épistémologie et transversalité 40 (Fall, 2006).
  • "On (T/the) Word and Flesh: The Theopolitics of Knowledge in Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals," The C.L.R. James Journal 12 (Spring, 2006).
  • "Modernity in Black: Du Bois and the (Re)Construction of Black Identity in The Souls of Black Folk," Philosophia Africana, 7.1 (March, 2004); abstracted in Richard H. Lineback, ed., The Philosopher's Index (Bowling Green: Philosopher's Information Center, 2005).

Film

  • Fifeville (2005). With Kevin J. Everson. 16mm film, 15 minutes, black and white. Profile and Panorama Experimental Film Program, Württembergischer/ Kunstverein/Stuttgart (2007); International Competition Selection, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival (2007), International Competition Selection, 52nd International Short Film Festival/Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2006), Vinegar Hill Film Festival (2005).

Courses Taught

  • Africana Philosophy of Religion
  • The Black Radical Tradition
  • Contemporary African Philosophy
  • Critical Race Theory
  • Critical Theology and Radical Democracy
  • The Ethics of Black Power
  • Introduction to Africana Studies
  • Marx, Politics, and Theology
  • Philosophy and Race