Alexander Ghedi Weheliye

Dept. African American Studies 1711 N. Marshfield Ave #2 1860 Campus Dr., Crowe 5-121 Chicago, IL 60626 (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, . 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

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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.

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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.

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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 length project) Black Life/Schwarz-Sein (book length project)

Invited Lectures 2020 Plenary speaker at Capitalism and the Human, Brown University, October. 2020 “‘Scream my name like a protest:’ R&B as BlackFem Technology of Humanity in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter.” University of Toronto, September. 2019 "SchwarzSein: Blackness Beyond the Human” Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, November. 2019 “‘Scream my name like a protest:’ R&B as Sonic Sanctuary for BlackFem Interiorities in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter.” School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, July. 2019 “‘Scream my name like a protest:’ R&B as Sonic Sanctuary for BlackFem Interiorities in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter.” Akademie der Kunst, Munich, Germany, May. 2019 “‘Scream my name like a protest:’ R&B as Sonic Sanctuary for BlackFem Interiorities in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter.” UC Riverside, April. 2019 Plenary speaker book salon on Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. , March. 2019 “World-Building in Black Music,” Eyebeam-Refiguring the Future. New York, February. 2019 “‘Scream my name like a protest:’ R&B as Sonic Sanctuary for BlackFem Interiorities in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter.” University of Chicago Department of Anthropology, January. 2018 “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Graphic Modernity” 150 years W.E.B. of Du Bois: Black Speculative Arts Symposium. Berlin, Germany, November. 2018 “‘Scream my name like a protest:’ R&B as Sonic Sanctuary for BlackFem Interiorities in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter.” Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November. 2018 Keynote. Thinking Race Relationally. University of Western Sydney. Sydney Australia. July 2018 Keynote. Space, Race, Bodies III: Walls, University of Otago, New Zealand, June. 2018 Keynote. Sylvia Wynter Symposium. King’s College. London UK, June. 2018 “New Waves, Shifting Terrains: Prince’s Transatlantic Crossovers.” Prince from Minneapolis Symposium. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April. 2018 Keynote. The Secret Life of Crowds: Gender, Sexuality, and the Masses. , April. 2018 “Black Life/Schwarz-Sein” Hartley Burr Alexander Chair Lecture. Scripps College, March. 2018 Keynote. Marxist Reading Group’s Annual Conference. University of Florida, Gainesville. March. 2018 “‘Scream my name like a protest:’ R&B as Sonic Sanctuary for BlackFem Interiorities in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter.” American Studies Program, , February. 2018 “‘Scream my name like a protest:’ R&B as Sonic Sanctuary for BlackFem Interiorities in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter.” New York University, January. 2017 “FuturePasts: Afrofuturism, Blackness, and Technology” at Afro-Tech Fest. Dortmund, Germany, October. 2017 “Castigated Agency” Scenes of Subjection at 20: Inspirations, Riffs and Reverberations. Rutgers University, October. 2017 Public Conversation with Saidiya Hartman as part of I, Too, Am the Afterlife of Slavery: A

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Symposium on Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, Northwestern, June. 2017 “TT Right Now: Negotiating Somaliness and Blackness in Toronto Hip-Hop” Walcott’s Black Like Who 20th Anniversary. University of Toronto, May. 2017 “Black Life/Schwarz-Sein” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, March. 2017 “Race in Foucault’s The Order of Things” Lehigh University, February. 2017 “Black Life/Schwarz-Sein” Dartmouth University, February. 2017 “New Waves, Shifting Terrains: Prince’s & David Bowie’s Transatlantic Crossovers.” Blackstar Rising & Purple Reign. Yale University, January. 2016 “Black Life: Inhabitations of the Flesh.” Plantation Dispossession and the Futures of Black Embodiment. , December. 2016 Public Conversation with Hortense Spillers about Black Intellectual Traditions. UC Irvine, November. 2016 “Black Life: Inhabitations of the Flesh” Keynote lecture for The Boundaries of the Human in the Age of the Life Sciences. Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Penn State University, September. 2016 “Black Life: Engendering the Flesh” Robert M. Young Memorial Lecture. University of Alabama, September. 2016 “Black Life: Inhabitations of the Flesh” University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, September. 2016 “Prince and his Legacy.” Public lecture at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Chicago, June. 2016 “Black Life: Inhabitations of the Flesh” John F. Kennedy Insitut für Nordamerikastudien, Berlin Germany, May. 2016 “Hotline Bling: Gendered Technologies of Humanity in R&B Music.” University of Oklahoma, April. 2016 “Black Life: Inhabitations of the Flesh” George Mason University, April. 2016 “Hotline Bling: Gendered Technologies of Humanity in R&B Music.” Yale University, March. 2016 “Black Life” ICI Berlin, March. 2016 “Black Life: Inhabitations of the Flesh.” Hortense Spillers Symposium, Cornell University, March. 2016 “Hotline Bling: Gendered Technologies of Humanity in R&B Music” keynote lecture at the Canadian Cultural Studies Association conference. Waterloo, Canada, January. 2015 “Black Life” Beyond the Doctrine of Man: Perspectives on Enfleshment. Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium, December. 2015 “Black Life” Political Theory Colloquium, , November. 2015 “Black Life” keynote lecture at the Between Nothingness and Infinity symposium at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands, July. 2015 “System Addict: The Technologies of Contemporary R&B Music,” Black Studies, Sound Studies Symposium. Duke University, April. 2015 “Black Life” Keynote lecture for Open Embodiments: Locating Somatechnics. Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona, April. 2015 “Black Life” Keynote lecture for Human Futures Conference. Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, April. 2015 “System Addict: The Technologies of Contemporary R&B Music,” History & Theory of New Media Lecture Series. University of California, Berkeley, April. 2015 “System Addict: The Technologies of Contemporary R&B Music,” Princeton University, March. 2014 “‘White Brothers With No Soul’: Wie der Berliner Techno weiß wurde.” Techno Studies. Ästhetik und Geschichtsschreibung elektronischer Tanzmusik. Universität der Künste. Berlin, Germany, December. 2014 “Feenin - The Technologies of Contemporary R&B Music,” This Isn’t About the Future: Black Digital Culture, Today. California Institute of the Arts, November. 2014 “‘White Brothers With No Soul’: Wie der Berliner Techno weiß wurde.” Museum of the Allied

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Forces. Berlin, Germany, April. 2014 “Habeas Viscus: Biopolitics and Black Feminist Theories of the Human.” Media and Cultural Studies Department, Brown University, April. 2014 “Habeas Viscus: Biopolitics and Black Feminist Theories of the Human.” English Department, Rice University, March. 2014 “Racing the New Sound Studies.” Thinking Sonically. University of Pennsylvania. March. 2014 “Ring, Ring, Ring: Contemporary R&B and Mobile Technologies.” Multicultural Student Affairs, Northwestern University, February. 2014 “Afrofuturism and the Black Aquatic” Studio Museum of Harlem, NYC, February. 2013 “Allochronic Technologies: Coloniality and Popular Music.” Popular Orientalism(s). University of Hildesheim, Germany. November. 2013 “‘White Brothers With No Soul’: Wie der Berliner Techno weiß wurde.” Berlin Music Days. Berlin, Germany, November. 2013 “Habeas Viscus.” Keynote: Second Critical Ethnic Studies Conference. Chicago, September. 2013 Afrofuturismus: Schwarze Science Fiction Leitkultur in Musik, Film, und Kunst.” Timbuktu Community Center, Hamburg, Germany, May. 2013 “‘White Brothers With No Soul’: Wie der Berliner Techno weiß wurde.” AG Queer Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany, May. 2013 “Ring, Ring, Ring: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies.” Media and Cultural Studies Department University of California, Riverside, March. 2013 “Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and the Human.” English Department University of California, Riverside, February. 2012 Faculty Colloquium, Department of English, Northwestern University, December 2012 “Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and the Human.” Contemporary Literature Colloquium. English Department University of Wisconsin-Madison. November 2012 "Global Synthpop: Race & Sexuality in 1980s Popular Music." Black Arts Initiative Symposium. Northwestern University. September. 2012 Keynote: “White Brothers With No Soul? The Racial Politics of Techno in Berlin.” Radical Cross-Currents in Black Berlin: A Symposium. Humboldt University. Berlin, Germany, July. 2012 “Racializing Assemblages: Race, Bare Life, and the Human.” University of California Humanities Research Institute. UC Irvine, May. 2011 “Diagrammatics as Physiognomy: The Place of Graphics and Photography in W.E.B. Du Bois’s Sociological Work.” Columbia University, September 2011 “Time and Timeliness in the Works of W.E.B. Du Bois and Walter Benjamin.” Bard College at Simon’s Rock, September. 2011 “Promised Lands: The Politics of Dancing from Here to Utopia.” SOS4.8. Cultural Festival. Murcia, Spain, May. 2011 “Habeas Viscus: Critical Black Studies as Relational Totality.” Reading Race Today Conference. Brown University, April. 2011 “Diagrammatics as Physiognomy: Graphics and Photography in W.E.B. Du Bois and Walter Benjamin.” Annual Kemp Malone Lecture and Seminar, Emory University. 2011 “Race in a Posthuman World.” Bates College, February. 2010 “Without Comparison: W.E.B. Du Bois's and Walter Benjamin's Modernities.” Keynote lecture. University of Münster, Germany, December. 2010 “Reconstructing Weltgeist.” W.E.B. Du Bois' Black Reconstruction in America; 75th Anniversary Symposium. Duke University. 2010 “Ring, Ring, Ring: Mobile Sensations.” Voices, Bodies, and Technologies Symposium, UC Irvine, September. 2008 “Ideogrammatics as Physiognomy: Photography and Graphics in W.E.B. Du Bois and Walter Benjamin.” Department of African American Studies, Yale University. 2008 “Black Studies and Digital Archives.” Digital Humanities and African American Studies Conference.

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University of Maryland, College Park. 2008 “A Volk to Come” Making Europe/Making Europeans: The Ethnographic and the Everyday. Center for European Studies, University of Texas, Austin, April. 2007 “Black Studies: After Man” American Literary History: 20th Anniversary Symposium. University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, September. 2007 “Civilizational Diagnostics: W.E.B. Du Bois’s and Walter Benjamin’s Modernities” An International Conference: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Question of Another World, II, the School of Global Studies of Tama University Tokyo, Japan, June. 2007 “Habeas Viscus: Bare Lives, Race, Freedom.” Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, April. 2007 Invited Speaker for the series Writers & Their Writing, The Center for Writing Arts, Northwestern University, February. 2007 “Religion and Collectivity in German Popular Music” German Interdisciplinary Group, Northwestern University, January. 2006 “Plantation’s Pornotropes: Slavery, Cinema, and Bare Life.” John F. Kennedy Insitut für Nordamerikastudien, Berlin Germany, July. 2006 “A Volk to Come: Black Germans and the African Diaspora” Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics and Culture, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, April. 2006 “A Volk to Come: Black Germans and the African Diaspora” Black Europe and the African Diaspora, Northwestern University, April. 2006 “Plantation’s Pornotropes: Slavery, Cinema, and Bare Life” presented in The Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, USC, March. 2006 “Technologies of Humanity” Race and Ethnicity Study Group, Northwestern. 2005 “Mobile Sensations” English Department, Wayne State University, Detroit. 2004 “Technologies of Humanity” Faculty Colloquium, Department of English, Northwestern University. 2004 “Mobile Sensations” Literatures Department, University of California, San Diego. 2003 “The Grooves of Temporality” Conference in Honor of the Centennial Anniversary of the Publication of W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk. Northwestern University, October. 2003 “Ring, Ring, Ring; Machinic Sensation” English Department, University of Washington, Seattle, April. 2002 “Thinking Sound/Sound Thinking” Northwestern University English Department Annual Collation. 2001 “A Voice without a Face: The Subject of Sonic Afro-Modernity” Ralph Ellison: The Next Fifty Years. A boundary 2 Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November. 2001 “Black Science Fiction in Literature, Film, and Music” public lecture as part of Black History Month at The Northwestern University Center for African American Student Affairs, February. 2001 “Sounding Diasporic Citizenship” Northwestern University African American Studies Winter Forum, February. 2000 “A Voice without a Face: Sound Technologies in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” presented in Northwestern University English Department, January. 2000 “Stranger in My Own Country: The Cultural Politics of Afro-German Hip-Hop” African Studies Program, Northwestern University. 2000 “Digital Voices; Towards a Posthuman Soul” Singing the Body Electric: Music, Multimedia, and Digital Technologies. Humanities Institute, SUNY Stony Brook.

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Recent Conference Papers

2019 “Figuring the “Somali Terrorist” in Global Anti-Black Frameworks” The Annual Convention of the American Studies Association, Honolulu, November. 2013 “Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and the Human.” Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities. London, UK, March. 2012 “Racialization” Annual Convention of the American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico, October. 2012 “White Brothers With No Soul? Technospaces in 1990s Berlin.” EMP Pop Conference. New York, March. 2011 “Habeas Viscus: Ethnic Studies as Relational Totality” Critical Ethnic Studies Conference, UC Riverside, March. 2009 “The Black Geek Chic” Contemporary African American Novel. Penn State University. 2007 “Habeas Viscus.” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Chicago. 2007 “Diaspora’s People Problem” New Directions in African American Literature, Theory, and Cultural Studies Conference, Northwestern University, April. 2006 “Diaspora’s People Problem.” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, . 2006 “’Eine Hymne für mein Volk, das es so noch nicht gibt:’ Minoritarian Strategies in Afro-German Popular Music.” Annual Convention of the German Studies Association, Pittsburgh. 2006 “Diaspora’s People Problem.” Black European Studies in Transnational Perspective. Berlin, Germany, July. 2005 “Mobile Sensations.” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December. 2005 “Eine Hymne für mein Volk, das es so noch nicht gibt: Minoritarian Strategies in Afro-German Popular Music” Challenging Europe - Black European Studies in the 21st Century, Mainz, Germany, November. 2004 “Plantation’s Pornotropes” Annual Convention of the Modern Association, Philadelphia, PA, December. 2004 “Notes on Black Culture and Technology” Annual Convention of the American Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, November. 2003 “It’s Maniacal, I Cuff the Mimetical” Annual Convention of the American Studies Association, Hartford CT, October. 2003 “Technologies of Humanity in Afrofuturism” Version>03 DigitalArtsConvergence: Technotopia vs. Technopocalypse. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, March. 2002 “Information Ecologies in Black Popular Music.” Race in Digital Space 2.0, University of Southern California, October. 2002 “I Refugee from Guantanamo Bay Dance around the Border like I’m Cassius Clay.” Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April. 2002 “Computer Love” Second European Conference of the International Society for Literature and Science (SLS), University of Aarhus, Denmark, May. 2000 “Sonic Technologies in Darnell Martin’s I Like It Like That.” Annual Conference of the Society for Literature and Science, Atlanta, October. 2000 “Stranger in My Own Country: the Cultural Politics of Afro-German Hip-Hop” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Washington D.C..

Other Academic Activities 2018 Respondent: Broken Promises: Insecurity in the Muslim African Diaspora The Annual Convention of the American Studies Association, Atlanta, November. 2017 Respondent: The Colonial Fantasy of American Futurities panel at The Annual Convention of the

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American Studies Association, Chicago, November. 2017 Respondent: 150 Futures of Canadian Hip-Hop. Ryerson University, Toronto, November. 2017 Panelist and Respondent: The Boundaries of the Human in the Age of the Life Sciences Symposium. Penn State University, April. 2016 Respondent: “Visionary Aesthetics and the Queer Femme of Color Imagination” panel at The Annual Convention of the American Studies Association Denver, October. 2016 Moderator: New Directions in Gender and Sexuality panel at The Black Feminist Futures Symposium, Northwestern, May. 2016 Participant: Student organized roundtable discussion about racial fetishization, Northwestern, May. 2015 Respondent: “Data and Black Life” panel at The Annual Convention of the American Studies Association Toronto, October. 2014 Respondent: “Global Hip-Hop” panel at The Annual Convention of the American Studies Association Los Angeles, November. 2014 Moderator: Voyaging the Fantastic: Afrosurrealism and Afrofuturism in Wangechi Mutu and Contemporary Black Art. The Block Museum, Northwestern, November. 2014 Participant: Roundtable Discussion about Ferguson and Digital Media. Illinois Humanities Council, Chicago. August. 2014 Conversation with artist Krista Franklin. University of Chicago's Arts + Public Life/Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture. July. 2014 Participant: “Where We Wear: An Open Panel on Style & its Surrounding Issues at Northwestern,” May. 2014 Discussant: Black Popular Music panel at The Black Body as Archive Symposium. Northwestern, April. 2014 Respondent to keynote lecture by Francesca Royster at the Engendering Change Conference. Northwestern, April. 2014 Moderator: Afrofuturism panel Northwestern, January. 2013 Respondent: “Humanism and Black Life” panel at The Annual Convention of the American Studies Association Washington D.C., November. 2013 Participant: Roundtable Discussion about Gender, Sexuality, and Hip-Hop. Northwestern, April. 2012 Moderator: “Best Practices and Lessons Learned: A Conversation with Department Chairs and Doctoral Program Directors” panel at A Beautiful Struggle: Transformative Black Studies in Shifting Political Landscapes. Northwestern, April. 2011 Moderator: “African American Soundscapes and Sound Theory” panel at The Annual Convention of the American Studies Association, Baltimore, October. 2010 Moderator: “Afrofuture Pasts” panel at The Annual Convention of the American Studies Association, San Antonio, November. 2008 Participant: roundtable discussion Between Conversation and Critique: African American Studies and the Other Disciplines, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University, May. 2007 Respondent: “Voice in Cultural Critique” panel The Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, December. 2007 Respondent: The Black Arts Movement in the Larger Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement Symposium. Northwestern University, October. 2007 Respondent: Michael Hanchard, “Diaspora as Politics? Notes on Political Community as Black,” Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University, March. 2007 Participant: roundtable discussion Debating Diaspora: New Approaches in African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University, March.

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2006 Participant: online discussion: “Race and Ethnicity in Digital Media.” MacArthur Foundation Initiative on Digital Media and Learning. October. 2006 Moderator: “The Double Inscription of African-American Bodies Across Ideological Borders” panel at The Annual Convention of the American Studies Association, Oakland, October. 2006 Moderator: “The Black Queer Atlantic” panel at The Black Queer Studies Symposium. Northwestern University, January. 2004 Commentator: “Exodus and Eden: Historical Contours of Diaspora Populations” panel. Diaspora and the Comparative Imagination, Northwestern University, November. 2004 Respondent: Monique David-Menard’s “Inventing and Repeating in Freud and Deleuze.” The Futures of Psychoanalysis. Northwestern University, February. 2002 Organizer and Chair: “Black Music and Technology” panel at The Annual Convention of the American Studies Association, Houston, November. 2000 Moderator: “Worlding the U.S. Wide Web” panel at The Annual Convention of the American Studies Association, Detroit, October.

Service

2019-21 Member: graduate program committee, African American Studies Department. Northwestern University. 2018-19 Organizer: African American Studies speaker series. 2017-18 Chair: search committee for position in Black music and sound cultures. African American Studies Department. Northwestern University. 2017 Organizer: I, Too, Am the Afterlife of Slavery: A Symposium on Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, Northwestern, June. 2015-18 Member: Faculty Appeals Committee. 2014-15 Faculty advisor for the The Black Feminist Futures Symposium. 2015 Mentor: SROP Summer Program, Nana A. Adjeiwaa-Manu. 2014 Member: search committee for position in politics and cultural studies, African American Studies Department. Northwestern University. 2012/14 Member: Fulbright fellowship interview panel. Northwestern University. 2014 Mentor: SROP Summer Program, Sadia Hassan. 2013 Mentor: SROP Summer Program, Amrit Trewn. 2011-13 Chair: graduate admissions committee, African American Studies Department. Northwestern University. 2011-13 Member: graduate admissions committee, English Department. Northwestern University. 2011-14 Member: graduate program committee, African American Studies Department. Northwestern University. 2010-11 Member: undergraduate program committee, English Department. Northwestern University. 2009-11 Member: undergraduate program committee, African American Studies Department. Northwestern University. 2009-10 Member: search committee for position in ethnomusicology, School of Music and African American Studies Department. Northwestern University. 2009-10 Member: Ad-hoc tenure committee, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. 2009-10 Member: graduate admissions committee, English Department. Northwestern University. 2007-8 Vice-Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, African American Studies

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Department. Northwestern University. 2007-8 Member: search committee for position in cultural studies, African American Studies Department. Northwestern University. 2007-8 Member: search committee for position in 20th century American literature, English Department, Northwestern University. 2007 Examiner: two second-year qualifying exams in American literature. English Department, Northwestern University. 2007 Co-Organizer: “New Directions in African American Literature, Theory, and Cultural Studies” conference, Northwestern University, April 2007. 2006-8 Member: undergraduate program committee, African American Studies Department. Northwestern University. 2006-7 Member: Ad-hoc tenure committee, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. 2006-7 Member: steering committee, The German Interdisciplinary Group. Northwestern University. 2006-7 Chair: postdoctoral Fellowship committee, African American Studies Department. Northwestern University. 2006-7 Member: graduate program committee, English Department. Northwestern University. 2005-06 Member: graduate admissions committee, English Department. Northwestern University. 2005 Member: Northwestern University Minority Fellowship (NUMF) Selection Committee. 2004-5 Member: graduate program committee, English Department. Northwestern University. 2004 Member: search committee for position in Anglophone African literatures, English Department. Northwestern University. 2004 Organizer: The Politics of the Paraliterary: A Symposium on Afro-Diasporic Speculative Fiction and Theory. Participants: Samuel R. Delany, Kodwo Eshun, Alondra Nelson, Greg Tate, and Sheree Thomas. Northwestern University, April. 2004-present Faculty affiliate: Screen Cultures Program. Northwestern University. 2003-4 Member: search committee for endowed chair in American literature, English Department, Northwestern University. 2003 Examiner: four second-year qualifying exams in American literature. English Department, Northwestern University. 2002-present Member: program committee for critical theory, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. 2002-03 Member: search committee for position in African Literature, Program in African Studies, Northwestern University. 2002-03 Member: graduate program committee, English Department, Northwestern University. 2002-05 Freshman Adviser: Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. 2001-2004 Faculty affiliate: Center for Law, Culture and Social Thought, Northwestern University. 2000-05 Founder and organizer, Northwestern Theory Reading Group, Northwestern University. 2000-01 Member: search committee for position in African American literature, African American Studies Department, Northwestern University. 2000-01 Member: undergraduate program committee in the English Department, Northwestern University.

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1999-2000 Member: advisory board for The Humanities Institute, SUNY Stony Brook. 1999-2000 Member: graduate program committee in the English Department, SUNY Stony Brook. Dissertation Committees Northwestern: Chad Infante (Chair), Mohwanah Fetus (Chair), Brittnay Proctor (Chair), Jared Richardson (Chair), Corrine Collins (Chair), Tyrone Palmer (Chair), Harrison Graves (Chair), Marlon Millner (Chair), Benjamin Jones, Rikki Byrd, Theo Foster, Jermaine Scott, Chelsea Frazier, Nora Eltahawy, LaCharles Ward, Brett Brehm, Abigail Derecho; The University of Texas at Austin: Paul Joseph López Oro; University of Toronto: Muna Udbi Ali; University of Maryland: Ilyas Abukar and Rahma Haji; SUNY Stony Brook: Josie Brown-Rose; Universität Bremen, Germany: Johannes Ismael Wendt

Professional Service 2019 Reviewer for American Academy, Berlin, Germany 2018 Reviewer for American Council of Learned Societies 2018 Nominator for McArthur Fellowship 2015- Member: Practicing Refusal Working Group, Columbia University. 2014 External reviewer: Creative Unit, New Black Diaspora Studies. University of Bremen, Germany. 2012-13 Co-Chair: journal committee of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association 2013 Chair: John Hope Franklin Prize committee, American Studies Association. 2012- Member: editorial board The Black Scholar. 2012-14 Chair: William Sanders Scarborough Prize Selection Committee, The Modern Language Association 2011-13 Member: conference committee of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association 2010-12 Co-Chair: working committee of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association. 2009-10 Member: program committee for the 2010 meeting of the American Studies Association. Referee University of Michigan Press (2020), University of California Press (2019), Pennsylvania State University Press (2016), University of Michigan Press (2016), Stanford University Press (2016), Small Axe (2015), The Black Scholar (2015/16), Angelaki (2016), Fordham University Press (2015), NYU Press (2013/15/16), Journal of Popular Music Studies (2013/14), Body & Society (2013), University of Minnesota Press (2013), Wayne State University Press (2012), University of Massachusetts Press (2012), University of Alabama Press (2011), Oxford University Press (2011/14), University of Michigan Press (2010), Theory, Culture, Society (2009, 2010), African American Review (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016), PMLA (2009), Routledge Press (2009), American Quarterly (2006, 2007, 2010), Feminist Review (2007, 2008), Duke University Press (2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2018), Cornell University Press (2004, 2005), Callaloo (2003). Tenure and Promotion Reviews University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Riverside, Brown University, University of Chicago, Harvard University, University of Maryland, Tufts University, Rutgers University, University of Illinois Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, CUNY Graduate Center, San Francisco State University, Amherst College; University of California, San Diego, Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University, Florida Atlantic University, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, Queen’s University, Canada, Rice University, University of Washington, University of Texas, Austin, University of West Texas, Yale University. Teaching and Research Interests African American and Afro-Diasporic Literatures and Cultures; Critical Theory; Popular Culture; Gender and Sexuality Studies; History and Theory of Information Technologies. Recent Teaching

2020 Black Queer Diasporas 2018 Black Studies Now (graduate) 2017/18/20 Theorizing Blackness 2016 Ellison’s Invisible Man, Blackness, and Carcerality (Independent Study) 2016/19 Black Life (Graduate) 2015/2018 Sounding the Black Atlantic

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2014/20 Diaspora Theory and Diaspora Tropes (Graduate) 2013/17/20 The Politics of Contemporary Black Popular Music 2013 Critical Theory and Race (Independent Study) 2013/15/16 Expressive Arts & Culture (Graduate) 2012 Literatures of the Black World 2011/13/14 Afrofuturism 2011 Post-Soul Blackness (Graduate) 2011 W.E.B. Du Bois (Graduate) 2010 Hip-Hop Studies (Graduate Independent Study) 2010 Major Black Authors: W.E.B. Du Bois 2009/10/12 The Culture of Mobile Technologies 2008 Terror and Freedom (Graduate) 2007 W.E.B. Du Bois and Walter Benjamin 2007/9/14/17/20 Introduction to Transnational Black Cultures: Britain and Germany 2006 Man and Animal (Graduate) 2006 Homo Sacer, Gender and Sexuality (Independent Study) 2005 Sound Technology and the Politics of Black and Asian Popular Music (Graduate Independent Study) 2005 The Cultural Poetics and Politics of Hip-Hop (Independent Study) 2005/6/7/11/13/15 The African American Novel: Post-Integration Blues 2004 Post-Colonial Literature and Theory (Graduate Independent Study) 2004/6/7/8 Contemporary Narrative 2004 Survey in African American Literature II 2004 Black Cultural Studies (Graduate Independent Study) 2004/5/8/10/11/12 Introduction to Contemporary Critical Theory 2003 Poststructuralism and Minority Discourse (Graduate) 2003 Sonic Afro-Modernity (Graduate) 2002/03 Nuruddin Farah: A Case Study in Post-Colonial Literature 2002/04 African American Speculative Fiction 2001 Survey in African American Literature I Languages Fluent in English and German; proficient in French; experience in Arabic, Italian, Somali, and Spanish.

Alexander Ghedi Weheliye is professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University where he teaches Black literature and culture, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, social technologies, and popular culture. He is the author of Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (Duke UP, 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 UP, 2014). Currently, he is working on two projects. The first, Feenin: R&B’s Technologies of Humanity, offers a critical history of the intimate relationship between R&B music and technology since the late 1970’s. The second, Black Life/Schwarz-Sein, situates Blackness as an ungendered ontology of unbelonging. His work has been published in American Literary History, The Black Scholar, boundary 2, Criticism, CR: The New Centennial Review, The Journal of Visual Culture, Public Culture, Small Axe, Social Text, and the anthologies Black Europe and the African Diaspora, The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, The Contemporary African American Novel, Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht: (K)erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache, Remapping Black Germany, and re/visionen: Postkoloniale Perspektiven von People of Color auf Rassismus, Kulturpolitik und Widerstand in Deutschland. A selection of his writings can be found here: http://bit.ly/13uHdOa