Alexander G Weheliye

Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Weinberg Humanities, English

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.

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

Director: Program in Critical Theory, Northwestern University

Associate Professor of 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

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

Northwestern University Faculty Research Grant

Faculty affiliate, The Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities Northwestern University, 2006-2007

Winner of the Modern Language Association’s 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

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

The American Comparative Literature Association

The American Studies Association

The Modern Language Association

The Society for Literature and Science

Editor and coordinator of Dossier, HipHop: Zwischen Mainstream und Jugendprotest on the Website: Heinrich Böll Stiftung: Migration - Integration – Diversity, link

Member, board of readers Issues in Critical Investigation, Vanderbilt University

Faculty affiliate, Screen Cultures Program, Northwestern University

Member, program committee for critical theory, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University

Member, undergraduate program committee, English Department. Northwestern University

Member, undergraduate program committee, African American Studies Department, Northwestern University

Member, program committee for the 2010 meeting of the American Studies Association

Member, Ad-hoc tenure committee, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University

Member, graduate admissions committee, English Department, Northwestern University

Member, search committee for position in ethnomusicology, School of Music and African American Studies Department, Northwestern

Member dissertation committee, Johannes Ismael Wendt, tracks’n’treks: populäre Musik und postkoloniale Analyse, Universität Bremen, Germany

Member, search committee for position in 20th century American literature, English Department, Northwestern University

Member, search committee for position in cultural studies, African American Studies Department, Northwestern University

Vice-Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, African American Studies Department. Northwestern University

Co-Organizer, “New Directions in African American Literature, Theory, and Cultural Studies”, Northwestern University

Examiner, Two second-year qualifying exams in American literature, English Department, Northwestern University

Member, undergraduate program committee, African American Studies Department, Northwestern University

Chair, Postdoctoral Fellowship committee, African American Studies Department. Northwestern University

Member, Ad-hoc tenure committee, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University

Member, graduate program committee, English Department. Northwestern University

Member, steering committee, The German Interdisciplinary Group

Member, dissertation committee, Abigail Derecho, Departments of Comparative Literary Studies and Radio, Television, Film, Northwestern University

Member, graduate admissions committee, English Department. Northwestern University

Member, Northwestern University Minority Fellowship (NUMF) Selection Committee

Member, graduate program committee, English Department

Member, search committee for position in Anglophone African literatures, English Department. Northwestern University

Organizer, The Politics of the Paraliterary: A Symposium on Afro-Diasporic Speculative Fiction and Theory. Participants: Samuel R. Delany, Kodwo Eshun, Alondra Nelson, Greg Tate, and Sheree Thomas, Northwestern University

Member, search committee for endowed chair in American literature, English Department, Northwestern University

Examiner, Four second-year qualifying exams in American literature, English Department, Northwestern University

Freshman Adviser, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University

Member, graduate program committee, English Department, Northwestern University

Member, search committee for position in African Literature, Program in African Studies, Northwestern University

Faculty affiliate, Center for Law, Culture and Social Thought, Northwestern University

Member, dissertation committee, Josie Brown-Rose (SUNY Stony Brook)

Founder and organizer, Northwestern Theory Reading Group, Northwestern University

Member, search committee for position in African American literature, African American Studies Department, Northwestern University

Member, undergraduate program committee in the English Department, Northwestern University

Member, six Ph.D. Oral Exam Committees in the English Department, SUNY Stony Brook

Experience in Arabic, Italian, Somali, and Spanish

Fluent in English and German

Proficient in French