Department of English
Gary Lemons
Gary Lemons
Associate Professor
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I hold a Ph.D. from New York University in English and American literature, with an Advanced Certificate in Museum Studies also from NYU. I have held a Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Womanist Studies Center at the University of Georgia and two National Endowment Fellowships for College Teachers, one at the Center for the Study of Women and Men at the University of Southern California, the other at Bennett College (one of two historically black women’s colleges in the nation). I have served as a Fellow for the National Center for Human Rights Education. At the Ford Foundation, I was also a Colloquia Fellow on gender in African American Communities. In addition to a number of articles related to gender progressive manhood and pro-feminist pedagogy, my publications include Black Male Outsider a Memoir: Teaching as a Pro-Feminist Man (the State University of New York Press, 2008) and Womanist Forefathers: Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois (2009). Most recently I served as a colloquium participant in the Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute’s panel on “Progressive Masculinities: Men in Feminism” at Cornell University. My research and teaching interests focus on 19th and 20th century African American literature, feminist theory and literary criticism, cultural studies, and memoir writing. Currently, I am working on two edited volumes: the first is anthology of black feminist and womanist pedagogies; the second is a collection of writings on the politics of intersectionality in feminist theory.
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Books
- Black Male Outsider, a Memoir: Teaching as a Pro-Feminist Man (the State University of New York Press, 2008)
- Womanist Forefathers: Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois (SUNY Press, 2009)