Professor Cunningham

Professor George P. Cunningham teaches courses on African American and American literature and culture in the Africana Studies and English Departments and in the American Studies Program. A graduate of Fisk University and the Yale University American Studies program, Prof. Cunningham regularly teaches the African American Literature Survey courses, Introduction to American Studies, Reading Race, African American Folklore, and Core Studies 6: Landmarks of Literature. He was named a Claire and Leonard Tow Professor from 2002 to 2004.   He is a Faculty Associate with the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities and serves on a variety of College-wide committee.  His area of research focuses on African American Literature and Culture with an emphasis on gender.  He belongs to a variety of professional organizations and is a life member of the College Language Association where he is also a member of the Committee on Blacks and Historically White Colleges and Universities. His publications include:  Representing Black Men co-edited with Marcellus Blount, New York: Routeledge, 1996; “Body Politics: Race, Gender and the Captive Body,” in Representing Black Men; He has other essays and reviews in Differences; Melus; and the Journal of Midwest Modern Language Association.