Ph.D., New York University.
Professor, The City College. English.

Selected Publications:

• "The Poet Speaks of Places: A Close Reading of Langston Hughes Literary Use of Place" in A Historical Guide to Langston Hughes (Oxford U. Press, 2004).

• Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 1990/1991).

• "How a Playwright Sees," Black Masks, vol. 11, No. 1 (December 1994/January 1995), pp. 13-14.

• "Where Are the Intellectuals?: A Round Table Discussion with James de Jongh, Morris Dickstein, Martin Duberman, Louis Menand, and Sharon Zukin," Thesis, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Fall, 1994), pp. 12-21.

• Play to Win, (play) with Carles Cleveland & Jimi Foster (New York; Samuel French, Inc., 1993).

• Do Lord Remember Me (New York; Samuel French, Inc., 1983).

PhD Program in English
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