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Robert Reid-Pharr
Professor, Graduate School. English.
Degrees/Diplomas: Ph.D., Yale University.
Campus Affiliation: CUNY Graduate Center
Research Interests: Race, gender, sexuality, and American culture; 19th- and 20th-century literature; African-American literature and poetics; film studies.
Theory Group Field Specialization: African American Writings and Poetics|Literary History, Criticism, and Theory
Chronological Period Specialization: American Literature to 1900|Twentieth-Century Literature
Phone:
Office Hours: Tuesdays 4:30PM - 6PM
Email: rreid-pharr@gc.cuny.edu

Selected Publications:

Books:

  • Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual. New York: New York University Press, 2007.

  • Black Gay Man. New York University, Press 2001.

  • Conjugal Union: The Body, the House and the Black American Oxford University Press, 1999..

Journal Articles/Book Chapters:

  • “The Stranger’s Work.”  Small Axe 13.1 (2009), pp. 90 - 97.

  • “Black Sexuality Studies.” in Howard Dodson and Colin Palmer, eds., Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience: Ideology, Identity, and Assumptions.  East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2007, pp. 179 - 205.

  • “The Slave Narrative and Early Black American Literature.” in Audrey Fisch, ed., Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 137 - 149.

  • “Black Girl Lost.” in Annette Dixon, ed., Kara Walker: Pictures From Another Time. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2002, pp. 27 - 41.

  • “Extending Queer Theory to Race and Ethnicity.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 48.49 (August 2002), p. B7.