Modern Language Association : Member, 2021 - Present

American Studies Association : Member, 2017 - Present

Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, 2023 - Present

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

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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 capitalist, liberal democracy. His current book project, tentatively entitled “Black U.S. Presidents During the Jim Crow Era: A History of Hypotheticals,” narrates, explicates, and assesses debates about the meaning and function of a Black U.S. Presidency. Spanning the infamous Compromise of 1877 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, this manuscript analyzes novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, comics, cartoons, films, songs, recorded interviews, and theatrical performances as well as the campaigns of Black Presidential candidates and Black Vice-Presidential candidates.

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