Alexander Ghedi Weheliye is professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University where he teaches black literature and culture, critical theory, social technologies, and popular culture. He is the author of Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005) and Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (2014). Currently, he is working on two projects. The first, Feenin: R&B’s Technologies of Humanity, offers a critical history of the intimate relationship between R&B music and technology since the late 1970s. The second, Black Life/SchwarzSein, situates Blackness as an ungendered ontology of unbelonging.
Publications:
Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the
Human. Duke University Press, 2014.
“Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life” in Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader. Nada Elia, David Hernandez, Jodi Kim, Shana L. Redmond, Dylan Rodriguez, and Sarita Echavez
See, eds. Duke University Press, 2016.