# overview
My critical writing has (and continues) to explore topics ranging from the consent of the governed to the relationship between risk, ? altruism and sibling rivalry, as those topics are reflected in the works of writers such as Etheridge Knight, Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, and Ayn Rand.

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Wesleyan University - (Middletown, Connecticut, United States)

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Columbia University - (New York, New York, United States)

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University of Chicago - (Chicago, Illinois, United States)

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Risk, Envy and Fear in Sterling Brown's Georgics

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What we mean when we say 'Creole' - An interview with Salikoko S. Mufwene

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"Ali Even Motivates the Dead": The Pursuit of Sovereignty in Norman Mailer's The Fight

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"Tight Like This," recorded 1928, Chicago, Illinois

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An interview with Edwidge Danticat ('Callaloo')

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THE MONTERREY PROCESS AND BEYOND An Interview with Tim Wall

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POLITICS AS THE ART OF EQUIVALENT SAY Reflections on Derek Walcott and W. Arthur Lewis, China and St. Lucia

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"MY GENERATION'S TASK" An interview with Melvin White

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The consent of the governed in Ishmael Reed's The 'Freelance Pallbearers'

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Komunyakaa's pictures of choice - An introduction

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On the phone with composer Bill Banfield - An interview

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Lies the War Machine Told Me: Komunyakaas Vietnam Poems

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Furious Flower Poetry Center, James Madison University

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GLOBALIZATION AND THE GROUP OF 77 Three Interviews

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BALANCING THE WORLD ECONOMY An Interview with Ambassador Byron Blake, Deputy United Nations Permanent Representative for Antigua and Barbuda

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"If the king of the universe were a friend": Amity and Communication in Dante and Derrida

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SIGNIFYING IN NEW ORLEANS Notes on a Journey into the Imaginal

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International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation and PS Guelph

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"THE POLITICS OF SCARCITY" An interview with Ambassador Munir Akram, who served as Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations until September 2008

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"I'M INTERESTED AS A WRITER IN LESS EXALTED PERSONS" An Interview with Jessica Hagedorn

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"MY PREOCCUPATIONS ARE IN MY DNA" An interview with Bernardine Evaristo

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Between Robin Hood and Ayn Rand: High capitalism in the 1950s

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Komunyakaa, collaboration, and the wishbone - An interview

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Biggie Envy and the gangsta sublime (Rapping in America)

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Opinion: Remove the statue of the Confederate General and Texas Ranger Lawrence Sullivan Ross at Texas A&M