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Alexander Ghedi Weheliye Alexander Ghedi Weheliye Dept. African American Studies 1711 N. Marshfield Ave #2 1860 Campus Dr., Crowe 5-121 Chicago, IL 60626 Northwestern University (773) 494-1835 Evanston, IL 60208-2240 [email protected] [email protected] http://sites.google.com/site/alexweheliye Positions Held 2019 Instructor School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University. 2014- Professor of African American Studies and English. Northwestern University. 2013-16 Director of Graduate Studies and Vice Chair. Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University. 2009-12 Director: Program in Critical Theory, Northwestern University. 2007-8 Director of Graduate Studies and Vice Chair. Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University. 2006-14 Associate Professor of African American Studies and English, Northwestern University. 2000-6 Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies, Northwestern University. 1999-2000 Assistant Professor of English, The State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY. 1993-99 Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. 1994-96 English Teacher, Upward Bound Summer Program, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. Education 1999 Ph.D. Department of English, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 1995 MA, with special concentration on African American Literature and Culture, Department of English, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 1992 BA, American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute for American Studies, Free University Berlin, Germany Awards and Fellowships 2014 Faculty Honor Roll by the Allied Student Government at Northwestern University 2007 Northwestern University Faculty Research Grant 2006-7 Faculty affiliate: The Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities Northwestern University 2006 Winner of the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for an outstanding scholarly study of black American literature or culture for Phonographies. 2004 Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Fund Research Grant, Northwestern University 2001-2 The Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities Junior Faculty Fellowship, Northwestern University 1997-98 Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers University 1992-93 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship for American Studies Weheliye 2 Publications Books: 2014 Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human. Duke University Press. 2005 Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity. Duke University Press (Reprinted 2012) Peer-Reviewed Articles: 2020 “Scream my name Like a Protest” forthcoming in The Comet Reader. 2020 “New Waves, Shifting Terrains: Prince’s & David Bowie’s Transatlantic Crossovers.” forthcoming in Blackstar Rising & Purple Reign, Daphne Brooks, ed. 2020 “Black Life: Inhabitations of the Flesh” in Beyond the Doctrine of Man, Joseph Drexler Dreis, ed. Fordham University Press. 2018 “FuturePasts: Afrofuturism, Blackness, and Technology” in Afro-Tech Reader. 2018 “Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies” (Reprint) Current Musicology no. 99–100. 2017 “808s and Heartbreak” (coauthored with Katherine McKittrick) Propter Nos, 2.1 (fall 2017). 2016 “Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life” in Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, Nada Elia, David Hernandez, Jodi Kim, Shana L. Redmond, Dylan Rodriguez, and Sarita Echavez See, eds. Duke University Press. (reprint) 2015 “Diagrammatics as Physiognomy: W.E.B. Du Bois’s and Walter Benjamin’s Graphic Modernities” in CR: The New Centennial Review. 15.2 2014 “Engendering Phonographies: Sonic Technologies of Blackness” in Small Axe (summer 2014). 2014 “Introduction: Black Studies and Black Life” in The Black Scholar. Special Issue: States of Black Studies. 44.2 (Summer 2014). 2014 “Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies” in Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies. Sumanth Gopinath and Jason Stanyek, Eds. Oxford University Press. 2013 “Post-Integration Blues: Black Geeks and Afro-Diasporic Humanism” in Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon. Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner, eds. Indiana University Press. 2009 “My Volk to Come: Specters of Peoplehood in recent Diaspora Discourse and Afro-German Popular Music” in Black Europe and the African Diaspora. Trica Keaton, Stephen Small, and Darlene Clarke Hine, eds. University of Illinois Press; 161-79. 2008 “After Man” in American Literary History 20.1-2 (spring 2008): 321-336. 2008 “Pornotropes” in The Journal of Visual Culture 7.1 (April 2008): 65–81. 2007 “Mein Volk, das es so noch nicht gibt” in re/visionen: Postkoloniale Perspektiven von People of Color auf Rassismus, Kulturpolitik und Widerstand in Deutschland. Kien Nghi Ha, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai und Sheila Mysorekar, eds. Unrast Verlag. (Translation and modified version of “My Volk to Come.”) 2005 “The Grooves of Temporality” in Public Culture 17. 2 (spring 2005): 319-338. 2003 “I Am I Be: The Subject of Sonic Afro-modernity” in boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture. 30.2 (summer 2003): 97-115. 2002 “Feenin: Posthuman Voices in Black Popular Music” in Social Text 71 (summer 2002): 21-47. Reprinted in The Sound Studies Reader. Jonathan Sterne, ed. Routledge, 2012. 2001 “Keepin’ It (un) Real: Perusing the Boundaries of Hip-Hop Culture” in CR: The New Centennial Review 1.2 (fall 2001): 291-310. 2000 “In the Mix: Hearing the Souls of Black Folks” American Studies/Amerikastudien 45.4 (winter 2000): 535-554. Weheliye 3 Shorter Articles, Reviews, etc.: 2016 “Wie überleben wir die rassistische neoliberale Universität? Transatlantische Gedanken aus dem Belly of the Beast” co-authored with Jin Haritaworn. On the Website: Heinrich Böll Stiftung: Migration - Integration – Diversity. http://www.migration-boell.de/ 2014 “On Blackness and Being American” Chicago Reporter, December 1, 2014. 2014 “Sonic Alterity: Race, Orientalism, and Popular Music.” Norient – Network for Local and Global Sounds and Media Culture. 2014 “Required Reading” Cluster Mag. http://bit.ly/1nIZqUG 2013 Review of Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness, Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall, eds. 2012 “Foreword” Little Book of Big Visions: How to be an Artist and Revolutionize the World. Sandrine Micossé-Aikins and Sharon Dodua Otoo, eds. Edition Assemblage. 2012 “Race for Life” Social Text: Periscope. 2011 Review of Amiri Baraka’s Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music in African American Review Volume 44, Number 3 (fall 2011). 2011 “Nation, Kolonialismus, und Volk” Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht: Kerben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache. Ein kritisches Nachschlagewerk. Susan Arndt und Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, eds. Unrast Verlag. 2007 “These—are—the breaks: a roundtable discussion on teaching the post-soul aesthetic” in African American Review 41.4 (December 2007): 787-803. 2006 “‘Ich will mich nicht ausgrenzen.’ Alexander G. Weheliye im Gespräch mit dem HipHop-Pionier Moses Pelham” part of Dossier: HipHop: Zwischen Mainstream und Jugendprotest. Website: Heinrich Böll Stiftung: Migration - Integration – Diversity. http://www.migration-boell.de/ 2006 “Afro-Diasporische Identitäten in der deutschen Popmusik” part of Dossier: Schwarze Community in Deutschland on the Website: Heinrich Böll Stiftung: Migration - Integration – Diversity. http://www.migration-boell.de/ 2005 “Fremd im eigenen Land: People of Color in Deutschland” on the Website: Heinrich Böll Stiftung: Migration - Integration – Diversity. http://www.migration- boell.de/ 2005 “A New Groove: Black Culture and Technology Development” in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. December 1, 2005. Editorships: 2014 The Black Scholar. Special Issue: States of Black Studies. 44.2 (Summer 2014). 2006 Editor and coordinator of Dossier: HipHop: Zwischen Mainstream und Jugendprotest on the Website: Heinrich Böll Stiftung: Migration - Integration – Diversity. http://www.migration-boell.de/ Interviews: 2018 “Sounding That Precarious Existence:” On R&B Music, Technology, and Blackness. Interview with Nehal El-Hadi. Puritan Magazine. 2015 “Conversations in Black: Alexander G. Weheliye.” Monica Miller and Christopher Driscoll talk with Alexander G. Weheliye about the world of Man, racializing assemblages, and the black body. Marginalia. LA Review of Books. 2015 Interview: “White Brothers with No Soul – Un Tuning the Historiography of Berlin Techno.” CTM Berlin - Festival for Adventurous Music and Art. 2013 Interview for Soul Power! The Fusion Years; German television documentary about the history of soul music. 2012 Conversation with Y. Womack for her book about Afrofuturism (2013). 2011 D. J. Hoek, “Licenses and acquisitions: The case of digital downloads.” College & Research Libraries News 72.3 (2011): 155–157. Weheliye 4 2011 “In an iTunes Age, Do We Need the Record Store?” Marc Hogan. Salon. 11/20. 2008 “Beware: The voice of the robot is taking over” by Matthew Lynch, Columbia News Service, April 15. 2005 “Satiric Inferno” (about author Percival Everett) by Peter Monoghan, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 11. 2004 “The iPod Revolution” ABC7 Chicago 10PM News, September 14. 2002 “Boondocks strikes chord, and some nerves with message” by James H. Burnett III, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 20. Work in Progress Feenin: R&B’s Technologies of Humanity (book
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