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Education

PhD, Yale University
MA, Indiana University, Bloomington
BA, University of Maryland, College Park

Biography

Radiclani Clytus holds a Joint PhD in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale University. His research and teaching interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century (African) American literature and visual culture, history of the book studies, and literary theory. He has received fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the New-York Historical Society, and the Library Company of Philadelphia.. He is the editor of Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (University of Michigan, 2000), a compilation of prose works by Yusef Komunyakaa, and is the author of articles on nineteenth-century circum-Atlantic visual culture. His forthcoming book, "Envisioning Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual," examines the ocularcentric roots of American anti-slavery rhetoric.

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