Wahneema H. Lubiano
Associate Professor of African and African American Studies
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002
- Associate Professor in the Program of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021
Contact Information
- 243G Friedl Building, 124 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708-0252
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(919) 684-2830
- 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
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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- 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
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Academic Articles
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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.Full Text
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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.Full Text
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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.Full Text Link to Item
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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.
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Wiegman, R., Wahneema Lubiano, and Michael Hardt. “In the After Life of the Duke Case.” Social Text 93 25 (2007): 1–16.
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Lubiano, W. H. “Transatlantic Dreaming: Slavery, Tourism and Diasporic Encounters.” Edited by Fran Markowitz and Anders Stefansson, 2004.
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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.Full Text
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Book Sections
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- 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
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Service to the Profession
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