Alexander G. Weheliye (Ph.D. Rutgers University) teaches African American and Afro-Diasporic Literature and Culture, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Popular Culture. He is the author of Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (Duke University Press, 2005), which was awarded The Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature or Culture. Currently, he is working on two interrelated projects. The first, Technologies of Humanity concerns the vexed role of the human in western modernity as it pertains to Afro-Diasporic culture over the last 150 years. The second,
Modernity Hesitant: The Poetics of W.E.B. Du Bois and Walter Benjamin, charts the various literary and philosophical styles in the oeuvre of these two intellectuals. His work has been published in Amerikastudien/American Studies, boundary 2, CR: The New Centennial Review, Public Culture, and Social Text. Diverse Magazine and the migration and diversity website of the Heinrich Boell Stiftung:

http://www.migration-boell.de/web/diversity/48_394.asp
http://www.migration-boell.de/web/diversity/48_606.asp