Faculty

Lindon Barrett, Professor
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

(951) 827-1900
lindon.barrett@ucr.edu

Lindon Barrett specializes in nineteenth century and early twentieth-century African American literature and culture, with particular interests in the fields of atlantic studies, african american autobiograhy,  fiction of the harlem renaissance, the early african american novel, the slave narrative, as well as critical theory and cultural studies in their articulations of issues of race, gender, sexuality, and class.  He is the author of Blackness and Value: Seeing Double (Cambridge U P, 1999). 

Other publications include:

"African American Literary Criticism: the 1990s" Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism (2006)

"Mercantilism, Federialism, and the Market Within Reason: The People and the Conceptual Impossibility of Racial Blackness" Accelerating Possession: The Future of Property and Personhood," eds, Bill Mauer and Gabrielle Schwab (Columbia U P 2006)

"Presence of Mind: Detection and Racialization in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," _Poe and Race_, eds. Jerry Kennedy and Lilian Weissberg (Oxford U P, 2001)

"Dead Men Printed: Tupac Shakur, Biggie Small, and Hip-Hop Eulogy," Callaloo 22.2 (Spring 1999)

"The Gaze of Langston Hughes: Subjectivity, Homoeroticism, and the Feminine in The Big Sea" Yale Journal of Criticism 12.2 (Fall 1999)

"Hand-Writing: Legibility and the White Body in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" American Literature 69.2 (June 1997)

"Black Men in the Mix: Badboys, Heroes, Sequins, and Dennis Rodman" Callaloo 20.1 (Winter 1997)

He has also served as Associate Editor of Callaloo for literary and cultural critiicsm (1997-2000), Director of African American Studies at UC, Irvine (2004-2007), and was a member of the Critical Theory Institute at UC, Irvine (1993-2007).