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Rolland Murray

Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies

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

Courses '08-'09
  Sem I:
 ENGL 0800B - S01: African American Literature and the Legacy of Slavery -- CRN 15442
 ENGL 1710P - S01: The Literature and Culture of Black Power Reconsidered -- CRN 11945

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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.

Rolland Murray