Alexander G. Weheliye
Alexander Ghedi Weheliye is a scholar and teacher of black literature and culture, critical theory, social technologies, and popular culture. He teaches in the department of African American Studies at Northwestern University.
He is the author of 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 and Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (Duke University Press, 2014).
Currently, he is working on two projects. The first, Black Life/Schwarz-Sein, establishes Blackness as an ontology of ungendering. The second, Feenin: R&B’s Technologies of Humanity, offers a critical history of the intimate relationship between R&B music and technology since the late 1970s. (2021)
- 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.
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