EDUCATION
Ph.D., Educational Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Specialization in Cultural Studies; Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies
- Dissertation Research: What Moves at the Margins: Black Queer Poetics and the Critical Pedagogical Imagination
M.A., English and African American Literature, North Carolina A&T State University
B.A., African American Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Minors: History and Sociology
B.A., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Minor: African American Studies
PRIMARY SPECIALIZATIONS: African American Poetics and Culture, Cultural/ Social Foundations of Education, Critical Pedagogy, Black Masculinity Criticism, African American Studies, Black Feminist and Queer Rhetorics, Critical Sexuality Studies
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
Mitchell, K. & Randolph, Jr., R. (2019). A Page from Our Book: Social Justice Lessons from the HBCU Writing Center. The Writing Center Journal 37.2: 21-40.
Spencer-Maor, F. & Randolph, Jr., R. (2017). Shifting the Talk: Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Feminism at HBCUs. Composition Studies 44.2: 179-182.
Book Chapters
Randolph, Jr., R. (2017). “The Queer Poetics of Social Justice: Literacy, Affect(ion), and the Democratic Rigors of Writing.” In C.P. Gause (Ed.), Leadership, Equity, and Social Justice in American Higher Education: A Reader (pp. 287-295). New York: Peter Lang.
Randolph Jr., R. (2012). Wanderlust, hysteria and insurrection: (Re)presenting the “Beloved” sweet home men. In T. T. Green (Eds.), Green. Presenting Oprah Winfrey, her films, and African American literature (pp. 105–126). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Book/Film Reviews
Randolph, Jr., R. (2017). “Film Review: Moonlight, Barry Jenkins (2016).” Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture. 2(3): 389-393.
Randolph, Jr., R. (2011). “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Hustler.” Rev. of Decoded by Jay-Z. Journal of Black Masculinity 1(3).
Randolph, Jr., R. (2010). “And Then There Was Baldwin: Memory, Masculinity, and the Blues.” Rev. of The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings by James Baldwin. Ed. Randall Kenan. Journal of Black Masculinity 1(1): 90-95.
TEACHING
North Carolina A&T State University
Lecturer of English, 2012-present
- ENGL 205: Topics of Literature—The Poetics of Black Sexuality
- ENGL 209: Critical Hip Hop Studies
- ENGL 210: Introduction to Literary Studies
- ENGL 231: Word Literature II
- ENGL 331: Writing Science and Technology
- ENGL 333: Survey of African American Literature I
Adjunct Lecturer of English, 2010-2012
- ENGL101: Ideas and Their Expression
- UNST 110: Critical Writing, Honors
- ENGL 200: Humanities II
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Adjunct Lecturer of African American Studies, 2007-2012
- AFS 201: Introduction to African American Studies
- AFS 210: Blacks in American Society
- AFS 305: Special Topics—Black Masculinity (writing intensive designation)
- AFS 305: Special Topics—Black Poetry and Poetics
- AFS 305: Special Topics—Black Power Movements
Robert Randolph, Jr., Ph.D. 