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William Henry Pruitt III - Loyola Marymount University. Los Angeles, CA, US

William Henry Pruitt III

Assistant Professor of African American Studies | Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Biography

Dr. William Henry Pruitt III, Ph.D. is a scholar of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. literature, culture, and politics. He researches the production of knowledge about the U.S. nation-state, especially its liberal...

Education (3)

Harvard University: Ph.D., African and African American Studies 2022

Columbia University: M.A., Comparative Literature 2014

Amherst College: B.A., Black Studies and Political Science, 2007

Areas of Expertise (5)

Twentieth and Twenty-First Century U.S. Literature

Black Radicalism

Black Intellectual History

Black Performance Studies

Black Queer Studies

Affiliations (3)

  • Modern Language Association : Member, 2021 - Present
  • American Studies Association : Member, 2017 - Present
  • Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, 2023 - Present

Articles (1)

"From The Furious Passage (1966) to Living in Fire (2019): A Review of Biographies about James Baldwin"

James Baldwin Review

William Pruitt

2023

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