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Kinohi Nishikawa

Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor

Address:
African American Studies Department
Crowe 5-128
1860 S. Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2209

Phone: 919-323-7572

Fax: 847-491-4803

Email: k-nishikawa@northwestern.edu

Courses:
AFAM 225 African American Culture (Fall 2011)
AFAM 380 Black Visual Culture  (Fall 2011)

Degrees:
Ph.D., Literature, Duke University, 2010
M.A., Literature, Duke University, 2005
B.A.., English, Dartmouth College, 2001

Current Research:
Kinohi Nishikawa researches African American print culture, media aesthetics, and 20th-century literary and social movements.  His book manuscript “Reading the Street” looks at the reception of black pulp fiction among activists, critics, and everyday readers from the 1960s to the present.  Kinohi draws from a range of archival sources—including first-edition paperbacks, black-owned periodicals, and rare audiovisual material—to capture the experience of reading black pulp fiction in its time.  A wide-ranging contribution to the history of post-civil rights cultural production, “Reading the Street” also advances new ways of thinking about the emergence of hip hop and, more recently, the return of so-called “urban fiction.”

Over the next year Kinohi will teach a new course on black visual culture, continue to conduct research in Chicago, and begin work on a new book-length project, a cultural history of the black bookshop.

Recent Awards:
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Faculty Affiliateship, Northwestern University, 2011-2012
Course Enhancement Grant, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, 2011
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University, 2010-2012
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Duke University, 2009

Recent Publications:
"The Negotiations: How a Black Blook Didn't Cross Over." Article in preparation.

"A Measure of Sincerity: Character, Language, and Meaning in Eeeee Eee  Eeee." Micro-Identity. Ed. Craig N. Owens. Volume Under Consideration.

"Race, Respectability, and the Short Life of Duke Magazine." Book History (forthcoming 2012).

Review of Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright, by Lucas Hilderbrand. The Information Society 27:2 (2011): 135-36.

Review of Wrong Is Not My Name: A Tribute to Survival via June Jordan, ed. by UBUNTU. American Book Review 28.4 (2008): 10-11.

“Those We Don’t Speak Of: Indians in The Village.” With Lauren Coats, Matt Cohen, John David Miles, and Rebecca Walsh. PMLA 123.2 (2008): 358-74.