Alexander G Weheliye

Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Weinberg Social Sciences, African American
Studies
Office phone: 847/491-4863
Email: a-weheliye@northwestern.edu
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Research Statement
African American and Afro-Diasporic Literatures and Cultures; Critical Theory; Popular Culture; History and Theory of
Information Technologies; German Studies (modern German philosophy and literature, minority discourse in Germany);
Post-Colonial Studies.

Education
1999
1995
1992

Ph.D., Department of English, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

MA, with special concentration on African American Literature and Culture, Department of English,
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
BA, American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute for American Studies, Free University Berlin

Employment, Positions & Ongoing Activities

2014 2013 2009 - 2012
2007 - 2008
2006 - 2014
2000 - 2006
1999 - 2000
1993 - 1999

Professor, African American Studies and English, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Director of Graduate Studies and Vice Chair, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL
Director: Program in Critical Theory, Northwestern University
Director of Graduate Studies and Vice Chair, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL
Associate Professor of African American Studies and English, Northwestern University, Evanston,
IL
Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston,
IL
Assistant Professor of English, The State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New
Brunswick

Awards and Honors

2014
2007
2006
2006
2004
2001

Faculty Honor Roll, Allied Student Government, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Northwestern University Faculty Research Grant
Faculty affiliate, The Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities Northwestern University,
2006-2007
Winner of the Modern Language Associations William Sanders Scarborough Prize, for an outstanding
scholarly study of black American literature or culture for Phonographies
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Fund Research Grant, Northwestern University
The Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities Junior Faculty Fellowship, Northwestern
University, 2001-2002

1997
1995
1995
1992

Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers University,
1997-1998
Dissertation Fellowship, Department of English, Rutgers University, 1995-1996
Marcus E. Bewley Prize, for best paper written during coursework in the English Graduate Program
at Rutgers University
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship for American Studies, 1992-1993

29 Publications
14 Scopus and Journal Publications
2015

Alexander G. Weheliye
Diagrammatics as physiognomy: W. E. B. Du Bois's Graphic modernities
New Centennial Review.2015;15(2):23-58.

2014

Alexander G. Weheliye
Engendering phonographies: sonic technologies of blackness
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 2014;18(2 44):180-190.

2014

Alexander G. Weheliye
Introduction: Black Studies and Black Life
The Black Scholar, Special Issue on States of Black Studies. 2014;44(2):5-10.

2013

Alexander G. Weheliye
Post-integration blues: Black Geeks and Afro-diasporic humanism
Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon.2013:213-234.

2012

Alexander G Weheliye
Race for Life
Social Text: Periscope. 2012.

2008

Alexander G. Weheliye
Pornotropes
Journal of Visual Culture.2008;7(1):65-81.

2008

Alexander G. Weheliye
After man
American Literary History.2008;20(1-2):321-336.

2007

Alexander G. Weheliye
Thesearethe breaks: a roundtable discussion on teaching the post-soul aesthetic
African American Review. 2007;41(4):787-803.

2005

Alexander G. Weheliye
A New Groove: Black Culture And Technology Development
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. 2005.

2005

Alexander G. Weheliye
The grooves of temporality
Public Culture.2005;17(2):319-338.


2003

Alexander G. Weheliye
"I am I be": The subject of sonic Afro-modernity
Boundary 2.2003;30(2):97-114.

2002

Alexander G. Weheliye
Feenin: Posthuman Voices in Black Popular Music
Social Text. 2002;71:21-47.

2001

Alexander G. Weheliye
Keepin' It (un) Real: Perusing the Boundaries of Hip-Hop Culture
CR: The New Centennial Review. 2001;1(2):291-310.

2000

Alexander G. Weheliye
In the Mix: Hearing the Souls of Black Folks
American Studies/Amerikastudien. 2000;45(4):535-554.

2 Books
2014

Alexander G Weheliye
Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the
Human
Duke University Press; 2014.

2005

Alexander G. Weheliye
Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
Durham, NC: Duke University Press; 2005.

5 Book Chapters
2013

2012

2011

2009

Alexander G Weheliye
Post-Integration Blues: Black Geeks and Afro-Diasporic Humanism
Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon. King L, Moody-Turner S, editors. Indiana
University Press; 2013.
Alexander G Weheliye
Foreword
Little Book of Big Visions: How to be an Artist and Revolutionize the World. Micoss-Aikins S, Otoo SD,
editors. Edition Assemblage; 2012.
Alexander G. Weheliye
Nation, Kolonialismus, und Volk
Afrika und die deutsche Sprache Ein kritisches Nachschlagewerk. Arndt S, Hornscheidt A, editors. Unrast
Verlag; 2011.
Alexander G. Weheliye
My Volk to Come: Specters of Peoplehood in recent Diaspora Discourse and Afro-German
Popular Music

2007

Black Europe and the African Diaspora. Keaton T, Small S, Clarke Hine D, editors. Urbana, IL: University
of Illinois Press; 2009. p. 161-179.
Alexander G. Weheliye
Mein Volk, das es so noch nicht gibt
Re/visionen: Postkoloniale Perspektiven von People of Color auf Rassismus, Kulturpolitik und Widerstand
in Deutschland. Nghi Ha K, al-Samarai N, Mysorekar S, editors. Unrast Verlag; 2007.

8 Other Written Works

2014

Alexander G. Weheliye
On blackness and being American
Chicago Reporter. (2014).

1Other
2014

Alexander G. Weheliye
Popular orientalism(s) #2: sonic alterity race, orientalism and popular music
Norient - Network for Local and Global Sounds and Media Culture. (2014).

1Reference Work
2014

Alexander G. Weheliye
Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies
The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies. (2014). Sumanth Gopinath, Jason Stanyek (Eds.), vol 2,
Oxford University Press: 361-380.

2Reviews
2013

Alexander G. Weheliye
Review of Black France/France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness, edited by Trica
Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall
The Black Scholar, Special Issue: In Memoriam: Robert Chrisman, 1937-2013. (2013). 43(3), 92-94.

2011

Alexander G. Weheliye
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
African American Review. (2011). 44(3), 525-526.

3Webpages
2006

Alexander G. Weheliye
'Ich will mich nicht ausgrenzen.' Alexander G. Weheliye im Gesprch mit dem
HipHop-Pionier Moses Pelham
Dossier: HipHop: Zwischen Mainstream und Jugendprotest, Heinrich Bll Stiftung: Migration - Integration
Diversity. (2006).


2006

Alexander G. Weheliye
Afro-Diasporische Identitten in der deutschen Popmusik
Dossier: Schwarze Community in Deutschland, Heinrich Bll Stiftung: Migration - Integration Diversity.
(2006).

2005

Alexander G. Weheliye
Fremd im eigenen Land: People of Color in Deutschland
Heinrich Bll Stiftung: Migration - Integration Diversity. (2005).

Memberships

The
The
The
The

American Comparative Literature Association

American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
Society for Literature and Science

Editorial Boards/Editorship
2014 2012 2006

Editor, The Black Scholar. Special Issue: The Boundaries of Black Studies
Member, editorial board, The Black Scholar
Editor and coordinator of Dossier, HipHop: Zwischen Mainstream und Jugendprotest on the Website:
Heinrich Bll Stiftung: Migration - Integration Diversity, link

Engagement
2009 2004 2002 2014
2014
2013
2012 - 2014
2012 - 2013
2011 - 2014
2011 - 2013
2011
2011
2010
2010
2009

2013
2013
2012
2011
2011

2009
2009
2009
2009

2010
2010
2010
2010

Member, board of readers Issues in Critical Investigation, VanderbiltUniversity

Faculty affiliate, Screen Cultures Program, Northwestern University
Member, Program committee for critical theory, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences,
Northwestern University
Member, Fulbright fellowship interview panel, Northwestern University, 2012 and 2014
Search Committee, Politics and Cultural Studies, African American Studies Department,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Chair, John Hope Franklin Prize committee, American Studies Association
Chair, William Sanders Scarborough Prize Selection Committee, The Modern Language Association
Co-Chair, Journal Committee, Critical Ethnic Studies Association
Member, Graduate Program Committee, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern
University
Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern
University
Conference Committee, Critical Ethnic Studies Association
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of English, Northwestern University
Co-Chair, Working Committee, Critical Ethnic Studies Association
Member, Undergraduate program committee, Department of English, Northwestern University
Member, Undergraduate program committee, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern
University
Ad Hoc Tenure Committee, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University
Member, Graduate admissions committee, Department of English, Northwestern University
Program Committee, American Studies Association
Search Committee, Ethnomusicology, School of Music and African American Studies Department,
Northwestern University

2007 - 2008
2006 - 2008
2006 - 2007
2006 - 2007
2006 - 2007
2005 - 2006
2005
2004 - 2005
2003
2002
2002
2001
2000
2000

2005
2003
2004
2005
2001

Vice-Chair and Director, Graduate Studies, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern
University
Member, Undergraduate program committee, African American Studies Department, Northwestern
University
Chair, Postdoctoral Fellowship committee, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern
University
Member, Graduate program committee, Department of English, Northwestern University
Member, Steering committee, The German Interdisciplinary Group
Member, Graduate admissions committee, Department of English, Northwestern University
Member, Northwestern University Minority Fellowship (NUMF) Selection Committee, Northwestern
University
Member, Graduate program committee, Department of English, Northwestern University
Examiner, Four second-year qualifying exams in American literature, Department of English,
Northwestern University
Freshman Adviser, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University
Member, Graduate program committee, Department of English, Northwestern University
Faculty affiliate, Center for Law, Culture and Social Thought, Northwestern University
Founder and organizer, Northwestern Theory Reading Group, Northwestern University
Member, Undergraduate program committee, Department of English, Northwestern University

Languages

Arabic, Italian, Somali, and Spanish (Experience)

English and German (Fluent)
French (Proficient)

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