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Carter Mathes
Associate Professor of English
Associate Chair of the English Department (Fall 2021)
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(848) 932-7947
African-American & Diaspora, Postcolonial, Theory

African American Literature; Twentieth Century Literature;
African Diaspora Studies

Carter Mathes is a specialist in African American Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, and African Diaspora Studies. His first book, Imagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature After Civil Rights (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) focuses on the relationship between sound and literary innovation during the 1960s and 1970s.  Currently, he is working on a second book, Ecologies of Funk, that examines formations of black radical thought in literature and music as they move between Jamaica and New Orleans during the second half of the twentieth-century. He has published essays in venues including Small Axe, Contemporary Literature, Callaloo, and African American Review.

 

Associate Chair

Murray Hall, Room 048, College Ave Campus

Chair's Office
  • Black Literature and Sound
  • Black Music and Literature
  • Literature of the Black World
  • The Black Arts Movement
  • Twentieth Century Literature in a Global Context
  • Post-1960’s African American Literary Experimentation
  • Sound in African American Literary and Cultural Practice
  • Caribbean Aesthetics
  • NEH Scholar-in-Residence, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2008-2009
  • Rutgers SAS Global Opportunity Award, 2008-2009
  • Center for Cultural Analysis Faculty Fellow, "Cultures of Circulation," 2006

MLA

ASA

PhD, University of California, Berkeley
BA, University of Virginia

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