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Alexander Weheliye

Malcolm S. Forbes Professor of Modern Culture and Media
alexander_weheliye@brown.edu

Biography

Alexander Ghedi Weheliye teaches critical theory, Black literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, social technologies, and popular culture. He is the author of Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005), Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (2014), Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology (forthcoming in 2023).