- Arnold Rampersad
Arnold Rampersad (born
13 November 1941 ) is an acclaimed biographer and literary critic. The first volume his Life OfLangston Hughes was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He was born in Trinidad.He is currently Professor of English and the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities at
Stanford University . He was Senior Associate Dean for theHumanities from January 2004-August 2006. As Senior Associate Dean, he was responsible for the full array of departments in the humanities, including Art & Art History, Asian Languages, Classics, Comparative Literature, Drama, French and Italian, German Studies, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Slavic Languages and Literature, and Spanish and Portuguese.*Professor Rampersad was a member of the Stanford English Department from 1974 to 1983, before accepting a position at
Rutgers University . Since then he taught there and at Columbia and Princeton before returning to Stanford in 1998.His teaching covers such areas as nineteenth- and twentieth-century
American literature ; the literature of theAmerican South ; American andAfrican-American autobiography; race and American literature; and theHarlem Renaissance . From 1991 to 1996, he held a MacArthur "genius grant" fellowship. He is an elected member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and of theAmerican Philosophical Society . In 2007, he published a biography ofRalph Ellison (1914 - 1994).He is also the half brother of
Roger Toussaint , the president ofTransport Workers Union Local 100.Books
* "
The Art and Imagination of W.E.B. DuBois " (Harvard, 1976)
* "The Life of Langston Hughes " (Oxford, 2 vols., 1986, 1988)
* "" (Knopf, 1993), co-authored withArthur Ashe
* "" (Knopf, 1997)
* "Ralph Ellison " (Knopf, 2007)In addition, he has edited several volumes including the following:
* "Collected Poems of Langston Hughes ",
* theLibrary of America edition (2 vols.) of works by Richard Wright, including revised individual editions of "Native Son " and "Black Boy "
* "Slavery and the Literary Imagination " (as co-author)
* "Race and American Culture " (co-editor withShelley Fisher Fishkin ) - of the book series published byOxford University Press External links
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* [https://stanfordwho.stanford.edu/lookup?search=arnold%20rampersad&submit=Search/ Contacting Arnold Rampersad by email+]
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