“I love myself when I am laughing…and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.” –Zora Neale Hurston

Robert Randolph, Jr., is a scholar, writer, and country boy from DownEast, North Carolina. He has held appointments as Lecturer of English and Director of the University Writing Center at North Carolina A&T State University and as Assistant Director of the Writing Center at American University. His research and teaching interests include 20th- and 21st-century African-American literature and cultural production, socio-cultural foundations of education, and Black feminist and queer rhetorics. His most recent publications include, “Delectable Negroes: On precarity, death, and the Black queer male body,” and “The Queer Poetics of Social Justice: Literacy, Affect(ion), and the Critical Pedagogical Imperative.” Additionally, he is finishing his first novel, The Crooked Mile, which examines black male sexual abuse, an often neglected subject in black masculinity discourses. Randolph holds a PhD in educational and cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a MA in English and African-American Literature from North Carolina A&T State University. You can contact him at rrandolph7@gmail.com.