Margo Natalie Crawford

Cornell University

Margo Natalie Crawford is an Associate Professor of African American literature, global black studies, and radical black feminism in the Department of English at Cornell University. She is the author of Black Post-Blackness: the Black Arts Movement and 21st Century Aesthetics (forthcoming, University of Illinois Press) and Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus (2008, Ohio State University Press). She is the coeditor of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (2006, Rutgers University Press). Her essays appear in a wide range of books and journals, including The Psychic Hold of Slavery, The Trouble With Post-Blackness, Want to Start a Revolution?, The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Post-1945, SOULS, Black Renaissance Noire, Black Camera, Publishing Blackness, and the exhibition catalog for the 2013 AfriCOBRA exhibit at the DuSable Museum.