Wahneema Lubiano

Wahneema Lubiano is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Literature at Duke University. She received her BA degree in English Literature and African-American Studies from Howard University, and her MA and PhD degrees in English Literature from Stanford University. Before coming to Duke she taught at Princeton University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Williams College. Her essays and articles have been published in Social Text, Cultural Critique, boundary 2, American Literary History, Callaloo, New England Quarterly, among other publications. She is author of the forthcoming books Messing With the Machine: Politics, Form and African-American Fiction and Like Being Mugged by a Metaphor: “Deep Cover” and Other “Black” Fictions, and editor of The House That Race Built: Black Americans, U.S. Terrain (1996). Her research and teaching interests include critical race theory, black American literature, black cultural studies, literary theory, semiotics, black popular culture, and feminist studies. In 2017, she was awarded the Raymond Gavins Distinguished Faculty Award from the Samuel DuBois Cook Society at Duke University.