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| − | '''Alexander Ghedi Weheliye''' is a | + | '''Alexander Ghedi Weheliye''' is a writer and professor focusing on Black Studies, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, social technologies, and popular culture. Currently, he is Malcolm S. Forbes Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Weheliye previously held faculty positions in the African American Studies Department at Northwestern University and in the English Department at SUNY Stony Brook. |
| − | + | Weheliye was born in Nordhausen, East Germany and grew up in Mogadishu, Somalia and West-Berlin, Germany. Weheliye received his BA from the Freie Universität, Berlin and his MA and Ph.D. from Rutgers University, New Brunswick. | |
| − | Currently, he is working on two projects. The first, | + | He is the author of three books: ''Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity'' (Duke University Press, 2005), which was awarded The Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature or Culture, ''Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human'' (Duke University Press, 2014), and ''Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology'' (Duke University Press, 2023). He has also published numerous articles. |
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| + | Currently, he is working on two projects. The first, Modernity Hesitant: The Civilizational Diagnostics of W.E.B. Du Bois and Walter Benjamin, tracks the different ways in which these thinkers imagine the marginal as central to the workings of modern civilization. The second, Schwarz-Sein: Black Life beyond the Human, which situates Blackness as an ungendered ontology of unbelonging. [https://sites.google.com/site/alexweheliye/ (2024)] | ||
; Publications | ; Publications | ||
* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22313 Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity]'', Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005, xii+286 pp. | * ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22313 Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity]'', Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005, xii+286 pp. | ||
* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=19425 Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human]'', Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014, x+209 pp. | * ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=19425 Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human]'', Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014, x+209 pp. | ||
| + | * ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DA1E1B946EB828DC3A630EA61E749A24 Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology]'', Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, 296 pp. | ||
* [https://sites.google.com/site/alexweheliye/publications more] | * [https://sites.google.com/site/alexweheliye/publications more] | ||
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* [https://afam.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/alexander-weheliye.html Profile on Northwestern University] | * [https://afam.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/alexander-weheliye.html Profile on Northwestern University] | ||
* [https://twitter.com/AWeheliye Twitter] | * [https://twitter.com/AWeheliye Twitter] | ||
| + | * [https://instagram.com/agweheliye Instagram] | ||
| + | * [http://beautone.tumblr.com Tumblr] | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:15, 29 December 2024
Alexander Ghedi Weheliye is a writer and professor focusing on Black Studies, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, social technologies, and popular culture. Currently, he is Malcolm S. Forbes Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Weheliye previously held faculty positions in the African American Studies Department at Northwestern University and in the English Department at SUNY Stony Brook.
Weheliye was born in Nordhausen, East Germany and grew up in Mogadishu, Somalia and West-Berlin, Germany. Weheliye received his BA from the Freie Universität, Berlin and his MA and Ph.D. from Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
He is the author of three books: Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (Duke University Press, 2005), which was awarded The Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature or Culture, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (Duke University Press, 2014), and Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology (Duke University Press, 2023). He has also published numerous articles.
Currently, he is working on two projects. The first, Modernity Hesitant: The Civilizational Diagnostics of W.E.B. Du Bois and Walter Benjamin, tracks the different ways in which these thinkers imagine the marginal as central to the workings of modern civilization. The second, Schwarz-Sein: Black Life beyond the Human, which situates Blackness as an ungendered ontology of unbelonging. (2024)
- Publications
- Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005, xii+286 pp.
- Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014, x+209 pp.
- Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, 296 pp.
- more
- Links
