Talk Title: Hysteria and the Domestic Economy of Labor in Wright's "Native Son"
Marlon B. Ross, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness (Duke UP, 2022), Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era (New York UP, 2004), and The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women's Poetry (Oxford UP, 1989), as well as a variety of essays and articles on queer theory, masculinities studies, African American literature, literary history, and British romanticism. He is currently completing a book entitled The Color of Manhood: The Black Manhood Imaginary in and beyond the Civil Rights Era, which is to complete the intellectual and cultural history of black manhood identity initiated by Manning the Race. He received the Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago and a B.A. summa cum laude from Southwestern University. He is associate editor of the journal Callaloo and is on the editorial board of The Baldwin Review. His honors include: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; the Lilly Endowment Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship; Finalist, 2023 Lambda Literary Awards, LGBTQ+ Studies for Sissy Insurgencies; Joe Weixlmann Award for the best essay representing twentieth- and twenty-first-century African American or pan-African literature and culture; the University of Michigan John H. D'Arms Faculty Award for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities; Excellence in Education Award, College of Literature, Science & the Arts, University of Michigan; and Excellence in Research Award. College of Literature, Science & the Arts, The University of Michigan. Before Virginia, he taught at several institutions, including Michigan, SUNY-Stony Brook, and Purdue University. Born in small-town South Texas, he attended the segregated Daule School for the first five years of his education, and was in the first class of full integration in his hometown's school system, becoming the first African-American valedictorian of his high school. He is the sixth of seven siblings to a father who was a self-employed builder and farmer and a mother who was a homemaker and maid.
Gender, Sexuality Feminist Studies
