Alexander G. Weheliye (Ph.D. Rutgers University) teaches
African American and Afro-Diasporic Literature and Culture,
Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Popular Culture.
He is the author of Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
(Duke University Press, 2005). Currently, he is working
on two interrelated projects. The first, Technologies of
Humanity concerns the vexed role of the human in western
modernity as it pertains to Afro-Diasporic culture over
the last 150 years. The second, Modernity Hesitant: The
Poetics of W.E.B. Du Bois and Walter Benjamin , charts the
various literary and philosophical styles in the oeuvre
of these two intellectuals. His work has been published
in Amerikastudien/American Studies, boundary
2, CR:
The New Centennial Review, Public
Culture, and Social
Text. Diverse
Magazine and the migration and diversity website of
the Heinrich Boell Stiftung:
http://www.migration-boell.de/web/diversity/48_394.asp
http://www.migration-boell.de/web/diversity/48_606.asp
