Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center
Riché Richardson is a professor of African American literature in Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center. In 2001, she received a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her interviews have been highlighted in news media such as NBC's The Today Show and Nightly News, CNN, Al Jazeera's Newshour, and the New York Times. Her Op-Eds have appeared in the New York Times, Public Books, and Huff Post. She has published nearly 40 essays in journals and edited collections. Her first book, Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007), was highlighted by Choice Books among the "Outstanding Academic Titles of 2008." Her new book, Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body, was published in 2021 by Duke University Press. She is the editor of the New Southern Studies book series at the University of Georgia Press. She is also a visual artist.
Contact: rdr83@cornell.edu
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