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Rolland Murray

Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 418
Phone: (401) 863-9174

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL 1710I - S01: Harlem Renaissance: The Politics of Culture -- CRN 944
  •   ENGL 1760B - S01: Contemporary African American Literature and the End(s) of Identity -- CRN 14946
  Sem II:
  •   ENGL 1710K - S01: Plain Folk: Literature and the Problem of Poverty -- CRN 25001
  •   ENGL 2760U - S01: Reading the Black Masses in Literature and Critical Practice -- CRN 24985

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Degrees
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2000
M.A. University of Chicago, 1995
B.A. San Jose State University, 1992

Research Interests
African American literature and culture, twentieth-century American literature, race, gender, and sexuality studies

Professional Accomplishments
Murray is the author of Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology (U of Pennsylvania P, 2007). His current project considers the impact of postidentity politics on contemporary African American culture. His essays have been published in journals such as the Yale Journal of Criticism, Contemporary Literature, and Callaloo. He has been awarded fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as well as the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.