Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • M.A., Stanford University 1987
  • Ph.D., Stanford University 1987
  • B.A., Howard University 1979
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Associate Professor of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2015
  • Director of Graduate Studies in the Program in Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2015
  • Associate Professor in Women's Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2014
  • Associate Chair in the Department of African and African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 - 2014
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of African and African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012 - 2013
  • Associate Professor in Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1996 - 2002
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • SEP 4, 2014

    The Week at Duke {in 60 Seconds}: Queering Duke History; #Ferguson

  • NOV 15, 2013

    'Twelve Years' Forum: 'Show Up for the Horror, Stay for the Politics'
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • United States of America (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • African American Literature and Social History awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2012 - 2013
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Lubiano, W. “‘Stuart Hall’ (Wahneema Lubiano Comments, Stuart Hall Event, 17 March 2014).” Cultural Studies 29, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 12–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2014.922658.
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    • Lubiano, W. “Affect and rearticulating the racial "un-sayables".” Cultural Anthropology 28, no. 3 (August 1, 2013): 540–43. https://doi.org/10.1111/cuan.12021.
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    • Hardt, Michael, and Wahneema Lubiano. “Obama and the Left at Midterm.” South Atlantic Quarterly 110, no. 1 (2011): 233–34. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2010-031.
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    • Lubiano, and W. “Black Studies, Multiulturalism, and Airport Bookshops: An Interview with Wahneema Lubiano.” E3w Review of Books 8 (2008): 56–59.
    • Wiegman, R., Wahneema Lubiano, and Michael Hardt. “In the After Life of the Duke Case.” Social Text 93 25 (2007): 1–16.
    • Lubiano, W. H. “Transatlantic Dreaming: Slavery, Tourism and Diasporic Encounters.” Edited by Fran Markowitz and Anders Stefansson, 2004.
    • Lubiano, W. “Constructing and reconstructing Afro-American texts: The critic as ambassador and referee.” American Literary History 1, no. 2 (June 1, 1989): 432–47. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/1.2.432.
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  • Book Sections

    • Lubiano, W. “"But compared to what?" Reading realism, representation, and essentialism in School Daze, do the right thing, and the spike lee discourse.” In Representing Black Men, 173–204, 2014.
    • Lubiano, W. “"Race, Class, and the Politics of Death" (revised & reprinted).” In Capitalizing on Catastrophe: The Globalization of Disaster Assistance, edited by Mark Schuller and Nandini Gunewardena. AltaMira Press, 2008.
    • Lubiano, W., and Angie Chambram-Dernersesian. “"Interview with Wahneema Lubiano".” In The Chicano Cultural Studies Forum: Critical and Ethnographic Retrospectives, edited by Angie Chambram-Dernersesian. New York University Press, 2007.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • AAAS 102: Introduction to African American Studies 2023
  • AAAS 228S: Fictions That Mark the Moment 2023
  • AAAS 345: African Americans, Mass Incarceration and Citizenship 2023
  • AAAS 387: Moral Panics, Spectacle, and Everyday Life: Social Anxieties and Minorities 2023
  • ENGLISH 379S: Fictions That Mark the Moment 2023
  • GSF 387: Moral Panics, Spectacle, and Everyday Life: Social Anxieties and Minorities 2023
  • LIT 102: Introduction to African American Studies 2023
  • LIT 343: African Americans, Mass Incarceration and Citizenship 2023
  • LIT 382S: Fictions That Mark the Moment 2023
  • LIT 387: Moral Panics, Spectacle, and Everyday Life: Social Anxieties and Minorities 2023
  • RIGHTS 345: African Americans, Mass Incarceration and Citizenship 2023
  • AAAS 102: Introduction to African American Studies 2022
  • AAAS 228S: Fictions That Mark the Moment 2022
  • AAAS 345: African Americans, Mass Incarceration and Citizenship 2022
  • AAAS 387: Moral Panics, Spectacle, and Everyday Life: Social Anxieties and Minorities 2022
  • AAAS 892: Independent Study 2022
  • ENGLISH 379S: Fictions That Mark the Moment 2022
  • GSF 387: Moral Panics, Spectacle, and Everyday Life: Social Anxieties and Minorities 2022
  • LIT 102: Introduction to African American Studies 2022
  • LIT 343: African Americans, Mass Incarceration and Citizenship 2022
  • LIT 382S: Fictions That Mark the Moment 2022
  • LIT 387: Moral Panics, Spectacle, and Everyday Life: Social Anxieties and Minorities 2022
  • RIGHTS 345: African Americans, Mass Incarceration and Citizenship 2022
  • AAAS 102: Introduction to African American Studies 2021
  • AAAS 228S: Fictions That Mark the Moment 2021
  • AAAS 345: African Americans, Mass Incarceration and Citizenship 2021
  • ENGLISH 379S: Fictions That Mark the Moment 2021
  • LIT 102: Introduction to African American Studies 2021
  • LIT 343: African Americans, Mass Incarceration and Citizenship 2021
  • LIT 382S: Fictions That Mark the Moment 2021
  • RIGHTS 345: African Americans, Mass Incarceration and Citizenship 2021
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Theories in American Studies III: Class. December 18, 2010  2010
  • Becoming a Bad Teacher. April 1, 2010  2010
  • Theories in American Studies III: Class: Comment. February 1, 2008  2008
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  Service to the Profession

  • Editorial Board : SAQ. December 18, 2010  2010

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